Job Summary
The Traffic controller will be responsible for placing, maintaining, and removing traffic control operations per the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)
Essential Duties
- Respond to Dispatch Center calls in a timely manner for availability – no later than 1 hour if between the hours and 8am and 5pm and no later than the next day if after 5pm.
- Maintain contact and coordination with TMI Dispatcher on and off the job
- Maintain all equipment in a safe and working condition
- Perform pre-job inspection and inventory utilizing the Vehicle and Equipment Checklist (VEC)
- Inspect vehicle to ensure safe operation prior to operating (oil, tire air pressure, etc.) and report any concerns to your supervisor or the dispatcher
- Inventory and inspect equipment needed for job
- Load all required equipment into vehicle
- Navigate safely to and from office to jobsite utilizing all aspect of the Smith Driving System to ensure safety
- Setting up devices: cones, signs, barricades, water-filled k-rail, etc. on job site per MUTCD guidelines
- Flagging of traffic to ensure safe work zone for TMI customers, TMI employees, and the public
- Coordinating with customer and/or TMI dispatcher ensuring a safe, efficient and problem free service provided to TMI customers
- Completing required paperwork, receipts, and time-sheets on or before mandatory deadlines
- Report any and all unsafe conditions to supervisor as soon as possible
- Ensure a safe work zone at all times for the customer and pedestrians by being attentive and refraining from being in the vehicle unless on a break
Equipment Operated
- Vehicles (Trucks/Cars) of various sizes
- Flatbed trucks
- Trailer mounted warning signs
- Cones, delineators, drums, barricades, signs and various other traffic control devices
- Trailer
Essential Physical Requirements & Work Environment
- Requires standing for prolonged periods of time
- Ability to perform full deep squat
- Full range of motion of arms and legs
- Requires lifting and carrying of up to 50lb from floor to chest level carrying horizontally for 25ft
- Requires lifting and carrying of up to 25lb from floor to shoulder level carrying horizontally for 25ft
- Requires using hands to handle, control or lift objects with a strong grip
- Requires the ability to raise the arms over the shoulders to life and place objects of up to 50lbs carrying horizontally for 25ft
- Requires stepping at least 33 inches onto tailgate of a truck
- Requires being outside and exposed to environmental conditions
- Requires being in construction environment
- Requires repetitive movement
- Requires bending at the elbows, at the knees, at the hip and bending forward
- Exposure to work near moving mechanical parts, heavy equipment and moving vehicular traffic
- Exposure to reasonable noise levels
- Must be able to fulfill essential job function in a consistent state of alertness and safe manner
- Ability to drive a vehicle in an alert and attentive manner with no conditions that may affect this
