Traffic Signs/ Markings Technician

About the role

The City of Grand Prairie offers exciting career opportunities! Please complete an application to begin your first steps to a wonderful career!

Join our team and play a vital role in ensuring the safety of our city's streets and roadways! As a Traffic Signs/Mark Tech, you'll be responsible for the crucial tasks of installing and maintaining traffic signs, pavement markings, and other essential traffic control devices. Moreover, your commitment will extend to being on call for emergencies, interacting with fellow City employees, and engaging with the public. Make a meaningful impact on the safety of our community - apply today!

Essential Functions

• Maintains and installs traffic signs by obtaining work orders; installing overhead street markers using necessary equipment and placing posts and signs throughout the City.
• Maintains and installs pavement markings by using thermoplastic tape, paint and other supplies; inputting markings for railroad crossings; re-stripping roadways and installing crosswalks and stop bars.
• Monitors inventory levels to ensure that the stock inventory for markings are updated and full.
• Ensures the cleanliness of vehicles by maintaining vehicles and keeping the vehicle adequately fueled and stocked for each day of use.
• Monitors phone calls by receiving calls and responding to emergency situations such as sign knockdown or replacement as needed.
• All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.
• Regular and consistent attendance and punctuality for the assigned work hours is essential.

Job Qualifications

Any combination equivalent to experience and training that would provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities may qualify. A typical way to obtain the knowledge, skills and abilities would be:

• Education: Training beyond high school. Could include some college hours, technical school, or correspondence course.
• Experience: Less than 1 year of related experience.
• Licenses: Valid Class C Driver's License. Class A must be obtained within a year.
• Certifications Required: Signs and Markings Level I Certification and Work Zone Certification or the ability to obtain both within first 12 months of employment required.
• Reading: Basic - minimal ability; typically learned in elementary up to high school.
• Math: Intermediate - Ability to deal with system of real numbers; practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions, and measurement; typically, this level is obtained in high school up to college.
• Writing: Basic - Ability to write simple sentences containing subject, verb, and object, and/or series of numbers, names, and addresses. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in elementary school up to high school. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• Managerial: The employee normally performs the duty assignment after general instructions, procedures, methods are communicated. Employee has some discretion on a limited basis when confronted with choices.
• Budget Responsibility: None.
• Supervisory / Organizational Control: Job does not direct or supervise others.
• Complexity: Normal tasks require use of definite procedures, with little deviation. Work requires little or no analysis or judgement.
• Interpersonal / Human Relations Skills: Conversations occur 20% or less of the time

The City of Grand Prairie is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Selection is based on the candidates whose background, qualifications, and any preferences requested from the hiring manager that most likely closely match the requirements for the job.