Highway Safety Equipment Technician

Position: Highway Safety Equipment Technician 2 -217881
Duties Description Under the direction of a Highway Safety Technical Supervisor, the Highway Safety Equipment Technician 2 performs the full range and scope of technical tasks associated with maintaining breath alcohol and other impaired driving detection instruments to ensure proper operation in compliance with manufacturer specifications; performs all duties of Highway Safety Equipment Technician 1; maintains electronic computerized simulation equipment used to diagnose, troubleshoot, repair and calibrate impaired driving detection equipment;

may provide expert courtroom testimony in the use of highway safety instruments; and may serve as supervisor or lead worker in the field. Additional duties include but are not limited to:

• Evaluates samples of screening and evidential breath alcohol and other impaired driving detection instruments and maintains appropriate evaluation records.

• Research published specifications for a variety of impaired driving detection instruments and makes program recommendations.

• Certifies a variety of breath alcohol and other impaired driving detection instruments for accuracy and reliability in accordance with published standards.

• Conducts evaluation, validation and acceptance testing of forensic breath alcohol and other impaired driving detection instruments and their associated software to ensure proper operation and compliance with manufacturer's specifications.

• Maintains appropriate status records of all work performed, including testing of subassemblies such as power supplies, integrated circuitry, motors, and printer assemblies.

• Troubleshoots operational deficiencies of alcohol screening instruments and performs the necessary repairs to return instruments to their full operational capacity.

• Maintains accurate physical and electronic records of all testing, repair, maintenance and calibration work performed on all instruments received.

• Conducts field visits to check use of instruments and make recommendations for improvements.

• Performs duties in support of the operation and maintenance of impaired driving detection technology.

• Maintains laboratory instruments and laboratory test instruments including oscilloscopes, thermometers, multimeters, frequency counters, output power meters and instrument specific test systems.

• Maintains a variety of electronic, computerized simulation instruments used to diagnose, troubleshoot, repair and calibrate impaired driving detection instruments.

• Performs remote troubleshooting of Data Master DMT instruments or similar evidentiary instruments for municipal police agencies across New York State.

• Monitors chemical reagents used as reference standards in breath analysis units.

• Provides software and other technical support for breath alcohol detection instruments for local and municipal police department personnel.

• Provides data management and report generation functions for data derived from impaired driving evidential tests Statewide.

• Instructs municipal police in the proper use and operation of highway safety instruments.

• Approximately 2% statewide travel is required.

Minimum Qualifications Non-competitive:
Six years of experience in electronics installation, troubleshooting, repair, maintenance, or design of solid-state electronic equipment, intelligent transportation systems, or commercial, industrial, and/or military electronic/electrical integrated system components.

Substitutions:
Graduation from a high school technical electronics education program recognized by the New York State Education Department as meeting the standards for technical education may substitute for one year of the required experience. An Associate's degree or 60 semester credits hours of college-level study in electronics, engineering, technology, chemistry, physics or a related field, or successful completion of a two-year technical professional certification program in the electronics field, may substitute for two years of the required experience.

A Bachelor's degree in electronics, engineering, technology, chemistry, physics, or a related field may substitute for four years of the required experience.

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