Traffic Signal Technician

Job Title:

Traffic Signal Technician

The City of Allen is currently advertising two distinct opportunities to fill one Traffic Signal Technician vacancy. This recruitment is being conducted concurrently with a Senior Signal Technician position. Applicants are encouraged to review both postings and apply to the one that best aligns with their experience and interests. However, only one candidate will be selected.

Join the City of Allen—a vibrant community of over 100,000 residents where strong economic growth, excellent schools, and an exceptional quality of life make it a great place to live, work, and play.

Our mission is simple: "To achieve excellence in managing community development and city services, continually enhancing the quality of life and public confidence."

At the City of Allen, our employees bring the PRIDE values to life:

• People First – Prioritizing others
• Respect – Treating everyone with courtesy and dignity
• Integrity – Serving with honesty and trust
• Deliver – Following through and exceeding expectations
• Excel – Driving innovation and continuous improvement

We do Work that Matters! Join a team that serves our community and makes a real impact every day. Learn more about the City of Allen .

The purpose of this position is to ensure the safe and efficient flow of City traffic. This is accomplished by maintaining City signs and signals. Other duties may include maintaining traffic control equipment, school zone flashers and residential roadway lighting, performing traffic studies, providing City signage services, maintaining safe work environments, providing administrative support and interfacing with other City employees and citizens.

This position does not provide direction to other employees.

The following duties are not intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed by all employees in this classification, only a representative summary of the primary duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties.

• Maintains traffic control equipment by running tests to ensure correct operation, performing preventative maintenance on signal hardware, troubleshooting and repairing traffic signal problems, installing new traffic signals, assisting with programming and modifying signal-timing plans, changing out controllers and implementing needed software.
• Maintains school zone flashers by ensuring correct operation, maintaining knowledge of flasher assembly, installation and operation, programming clocks with school meeting times, running tests on flasher equipment and conducting regular inspection of school zone flashers.
• Performs traffic studies by providing hand held traffic counts for phase time studies and by placing and securing moveable counting units at different locations.
• Maintains residential roadway lighting by troubleshooting and repairing lighting systems.
• Provides City signage services by fabricating street name signs, installing signs and using sign machine and computer to create signs.
• Maintains safe working environments for City workers by setting out warning signs, safety cones and barricades, accounting for flow and density of traffic and by routing traffic with arrow boards.
• Provides administrative support by processing work orders, maintaining work logs and on-call status, supervising work activities, coordinating the message board and radar trailer placement and by providing preventative maintenance on aerial lift trucks and other City vehicles.

Education & Experience Work requires broad knowledge in a general professional or technical field. Education and experience that provide the necessary knowledge and skills may also be considered, but a typical way to qualify is by obtaining:

• A High School Diploma or Equivalent plus one (1) year of relevant signal, traffic, public works, or electrical experience.

Other combinations of education and experience may be considered.

Certification and Other Requirements

• Valid Class C Driver's License.
• International Municipal Signal Association (IMSA) Traffic Signal Technician 1 Certification…