Title: Traffic Signal Technician
State Role Title: Electronic Technician I
Hiring Range: $46,054 - $74,838
Pay Band: 3
Agency: VA Dept of Transportation
Location: Salem District Office
Agency Website: www.virginia.dot.org/jobs
Recruitment Type: General Public - G
Job Duties
• Demonstrates and routinely practices safety behaviors as a condition of employment. Reports all safety accidents, incidents and/or concerns appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Respond to complaints and reported malfunctions of traffic signal and troubleshoot a wide variety of sophisticated electronic traffic control devices and equipment.
• Install signal controllers using laptop computer to program timings into controller.
• Conduct regularly scheduled checks of major signal components through use of a laptop computer communicating to central through a modem in the cabinet.
• Perform periodic preventative maintenance and inspections of electronic devices and related equipment for assigned program areas.
• Communicate effectively with the public concerning operations and problems with traffic signals
• Diagnose and repair electronic devices for assigned program areas.
Minimum Qualifications
• Knowledge of traffic signal maintenance and operations.
• Ability to plan, coordinate, and prioritize multiple competing assignments; keep detailed and accurate records
• Valid driver's license.
• Knowledge of management systems to include timing plans, graphic design and computer use.
• Ability to serve in an on-call capacity and respond to emergency situations within a specified period.
• Ability to use a variety of hand tools and testing equipment to perform maintenance on traffic signals.
• Ability to physically perform hands-on inspections of signals, components, use required equipment, work at heights, in confined spaces, in proximity of moving traffic and in inclement weather.
• Knowledge of a variety of traffic control devices, signal equipment and their operation.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical information orally and in writing.; and to establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Skill in providing and promoting good customer service to internal and external customers.
Additional Considerations
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state and VDOT rules, regulations, policies, procedures and standards.
• IMSA Roadway Lighting certification
• A combination of training, experience, or education in Electronics, or related field desired.
• Electrical or signal experience.
• Commercial Driver's License
• IMSA Traffic Signal Level I technician certification.
Special Instructions
You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position.
If selected as a finalist, you will undergo:
• Employment reference check and work history verification
• DMV Records Check
• Fingerprint-based criminal history records check
Additionally, required for CDL holders:
• Full Query drug and alcohol history in FMCSA Clearinghouse – Register at: FMCSA Clearinghouse.
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol screening
• Federal DOT pre-employment physical
Safety shoes and other personal protective equipment (PPE) required in performance of job duties.
This position is designated as essential and, as such, all duties associated with this job are required during emergency situations which may include, but are not limited to, inclement weather, disaster response and emergency operations.
Performance of these duties may require work outside of normal business hours including nights, weekends and holidays. VDOT will determine when essential positions are required to report.
Valid Driver’s License and ability to travel independently among assigned work locations is required.
Multiple positions may be filled from this recruitment.
VDOT utilizes a market based pay program, which has been approved by DHRM. Therefore, advertised rates of pay may or may not align with the Commonwealth pay bands.
The decision to interview an applicant is based on the information about qualifications and work history provided by the applicant in the application and/or optional resume’. State applications will only be accepted through online submission through the Commonwealth of Virginia’s Job Board/PageUp. PageUp provides a confirmation of receipt when your application is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your PageUp account to check the status of your application for this position.
We are a “Virginia Values Veterans” (V3) official certified company and state agency that provides hiring preference to Veterans and Members of the Virginia National Guard in support of Executive Order 29, (2010). If you are a Veteran or Virginia National Guard Member, we urge you to respond accordingly on your state application.
Contact Information
Name: Landon Osborne
Phone: 540-750-0284
Email: landon.osborne@vdot.virginia.gov
In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.
Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.