SENIOR TRAFFIC SIGNAL ELECTRICIAN
Senior Traffic Signal Electrician is a competitive local-government title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
It expects 4 years of relevant experience and a commercial driver's license.
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Senior Traffic Signal Electrician is a local service title. It is filled by the counties, municipalities, authorities and other employers that have adopted civil service under Title 11A, not by State departments. Those employers set pay by ordinance or contract rather than from a State salary schedule, which is why most local titles carry no salary range here.
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Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under direction, performs the more difficult and responsible work involved in wiring, assembling, installing, repairing, and maintaining traffic signal systems and/or takes the lead over traffic signal electrician; does related work as required.
Examples of work
- Performs the more difficult and responsible installations of various types of complex traffic signal systems, including the installing of conduits and cables, hooking up signals and control boxes, and making electronic control installations.
- Plans and completes the more complicated cable hookups over and above the normal color-coded circuits.
- Maintains and repairs the more complicated traffic signal radar equipment.
- Performs the more difficult erections, repairs, and maintenance of automatic and manual traffic control signals.
- Performs the more difficult erections, repairs, assemblies, and wirings of traffic control timers and traffic-actuated dispatchers.
- Performs the more difficult erections, repairs, and maintenance of overhead flashing beacons.
- Performs the more difficult repairs and rewindings of relays and transformers.
- Performs the more difficult repairs and desynchronizations of synchronous traffic signal timers.
- Performs the more difficult repairs and maintenance of electronic controllers.
- Performs the more difficult bench maintenance work involved in the repair, testing, and approving for service of traffic controllers and related equipment.
- Operates motor vehicle equipment necessary to perform duties.
- Gives suitable assignments and instruction to assigned employees.
- Writes requests for purchase orders.
- Inspects, obtains, stores, safeguards, and properly uses needed equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Keeps needed records.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and computerized information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Four (4) years of experience in signal installation and repair work, and/or in electrical maintenance work, and/or as a wireman - electromechanical assembly.
License
Appointees must possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey.
Appointees may also be required to possess a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and applicable endorsements for the class and type of vehicle being operated.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the problems, procedures, and equipment involved in the installation, repair, and maintenance of traffic signal systems.
- Ability to understand, remember, and carry cut oral and written directions.
- Ability to care for needed equipment, materials, and supplies.
- Ability to make emergency repairs under adverse conditions.
- Ability to practice accepted safety procedures.
- Ability to give suitable assignments and instructions to assigned employees.
- Ability to prepare suitable reports and to keep needed records.
- Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
- Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.
Note
The responsibility for ensuring that employees possess the required motor vehicle license, commensurate with the class and type of vehicles they operate, rests with the Appointing Authority.