Signal Maintainer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Installs railroad signaling equipment and highway traffic control devices according to layout plans and/or FRA regulations.
• Maintains signaling and traffic control devices; analyzes operational malfunctioning with testing devices to locate, diagnose, and ascertain repairs to be made.
• Examines mechanisms and disassembles components to replace, clean, adjust, or repair parts, wires, relays, circuits, or signaling units.
• Operates and tests equipment to ensure elimination of malfunction.
• Climbs poles or digs trenches to install or repair equipment.
• Maintain written electronic records of all tests, inspections, and repairs performed.

Qualification Requirements

• Education and/or Experience: One year certificate from college or technical school in electrical field; or three to six months’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals; Ability to write routine reports and correspondence; Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as speed discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume; Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Reasoning Abilities: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete or abstract variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Licenses, Certificates, and/or Registrations: Must have a valid driver license.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works in outside weather conditions and is regularly exposed to risk of electrical shock.
• The employee frequently works in high, precarious places.
• The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and extreme heat.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.