Trades Helper; Traffic and Lighting

Job Description - Trades Helper (Traffic and Lighting) (2600008A)

Job Description

Trades Helper (Traffic and Lighting) - ( 2600008A )

Description

Position Grade: 203T

Department: Streets – Traffic & Lighting

Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number: EX1 623

Location: St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for assisting journeyman trade workers in the performance of their duties for the Traffic & Lighting Division.

• Assists Journeyman Electrician trades workers.
• Assists in the removal and erecting of street lights standards and traffic signals.
• Assists in troubleshooting electrical circuits.
• Drives bucket trucks and other equipment to job sites.
• Assists in the installation of electrical equipment including but not limited to transformers, high voltage/ low voltage switching, light fixtures, and other various electrical equipment.
• Reads and interprets mapping, which includes electrical circuits maps.
• Uses jack hammer, concrete saws, and other various tools or equipment related to construction.
• Participates in emergency on-call rotation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Human Interaction:
  Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards. Ability to follow specific instructions and respond to simple requests from others.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use:
  Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as trucks, overhead crane, common hand tools, shovels, rakes, wheelbarrow, hand carts and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information such as time sheets, regulations and general operating manuals.
• Mathematical Aptitude:
  Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
• Functional Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Involves semi-routine standardized work, with some latitude for independent judgment regarding choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning:
  Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that may be subject to frequent change.
• Environmental Factors:
  Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Tasks involve the regular and, at times, sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting, carrying, pushing, and pulling heavy objects and materials some which may weigh over one hundred (100) pounds.
• Sensory Requirements:
  Requires the ability to recognize and identify individual characteristics of colors to identify materials, shapes to clearly distinguish objects and sounds to communicate with others.

Two years of experience assisting journeyman electricians, machinists, plumbers, carpenters or related skilled trade workers; OR successful completion of a recognized two‑year trades program which includes electrical, machinist, plumbing, carpentry or a related skilled trade from an accredited trade school or junior college (training program must be beyond the high school level); OR two years of experience in highway…