This is technical work directly supervising the operations of the City's traffic signal construction or maintenance and repair program. An employee in this class serves as assistant to a higher level supervisor and is in charge of a city-wide program of either constructing or repairing traffic signal devices. Responsibility for supervising tradesworkers and others through subordinate group leaders and conferring with private contractors and the public is significant to the work.

Work is performed under the general supervision of a technical superior.

• Plans, assigns, and reviews through lower level supervisors the work of skilled, semi-skilled, and unskilled employees engaged in assembling and installing traffic lights, removing metal poles, and replacing or repairing underground or overhead wires.
• Supervises directly a number of skilled employees engaged in a city-wide maintenance and repair program of traffic signals and traffic systems.
• Makes field trips to inspect work both in process and upon completion for conformance to prescribed standards; solves or recommends solutions of field operational problems.
• Confers with private paving contractors, utility representatives and the general public in matters pertaining to traffic signal field construction and installation.
• Makes shop inspections to ascertain that traffic light assembly is proceeding on schedule and that proper tools and methods are in use; resolves problems in shop operations.
• Tests new traffic signal devices for conformance to purchasing standards.
• Performs related work as required.

KNOWLEDGE OF:

• mechanical and electrical operation of traffic signal devices.
• the standard tools, testing devices, materials, methods and practices of the electrical trade as they apply to traffic signals.
• the principles of electricity as they apply to traffic signals.
• the sources of trouble common to traffic signals and related equipment.
• the occupational hazards and the safety precautions of the electrical trade.
• the theory and principles of electronics as they apply to standard electronic signal equipment such as very low frequency amplifiers, timing circuits and electronic computers of the analogue and digital types.
• supervisory methods and techniques.

ABILITY TO:

• locate and detect the causes of malfunctioning traffic signal equipment.
• establish and maintain effective work relationships with utility company representatives, contractors, associates, and the general public.
• interpret and work from diagrams and blueprints.

• Education equivalent to the completion of the twelfth school grade.

• Six years of experience in the installation, and/or maintenance and repair of traffic signal devices, one year of which has been at the crew chief level.

Or any equivalent combination of training and experience determined to be acceptable by the Personnel Department.

PHYSICAL AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to physically perform the duties and to work in the environmental conditions required of a position in this class.

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS AND/OR CERTIFICATES

• Possession of a valid proper class motor vehicle operator's license as issued by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania prior to appointment and during tenure of employment as a Traffic Signal Supervisor I.

PAY RANGE: EP15
Class Established: 10/1960
Latest Spec. Revision: 6/1986

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