Hiring Rate: $26.39 hourly

Full Pay Range: $26.39 - $39.58 hourly

Work Schedule: Monday - Thursday, 6:00am - 4:00pm

3-day weekends Friday - Sunday

Benefits at the City of Rowlett Include:

4-day work week
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Life insurance (2x salary up to $150,000)
Long-term and short-term disability
Flexible spending account
20-year retirement plan with the Texas Municipal Retirement System
5-year vesting and a 2:1 City match
Vacation – 2 weeks during the first year, 3 weeks after the first year
Sick leave – 2 weeks per year
Employee Assistance Program
Longevity pay

Position Overview:

The purpose of this position is to ensure the safe and efficient flow of City traffic. This is accomplished by supervising the maintenance of City signs and signals. Other duties may include maintaining traffic control equipment, residential roadway lighting and school zone flashers, performing traffic studies, providing safe working environments for City workers, providing various administrative services and by interfacing with other City employees and citizens. This position provides direction to other employees and reports to the Streets & Drainage Supervisor in Public Works.

Essential Job Functions

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 the traffic engineer in programming and modifying signal-timing plans, changing out controllers and implementing software needed by traffic engineer.

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 inspecting school zone flashers once a year.

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 making repairs, including ensuring lights are switched off during the repairs and back on post repair.

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 board.

Minimum Requirements

High School Diploma or GED and a minimum of four years of related experience related to the maintenance and operation of traffic control equipment required.

Other Requirements

Valid Texas Class "C" driver's license required. Must have and maintain a good driving record in accordance with the driving standards as established by the City of Rowlett. Must report all traffic citations to his/her departmental Director or his/her designee within two working days of receipt.

IMSA Level II Signs and Markings Certification and IMSA Level II Signal Certification required.

Valid Texas Class A CDL, IMSA Level I Roadway Lighting Certification, and IMSA Traffic Signal Inspector Certification preferred.

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