Electrician Lead (Traffic and Lighting)

Salary\: $60,502 - $90,766

Position Grade\: 213T

Department\: Traffic and Lighting Division

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1789

Location\: 1900 Hampton Ave. - St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position install, repair and maintain electrical system components, fixtures and lines; and plan work assignments while providing training to other electricians.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Schedules, distributes/balances and guides the work assignments of co-workers, according to established workflow/assignment requirements, to assist supervisory staff with timely completion of the assigned workload.

● Monitors and reports on co-worker work performance to determine overall conformity to established timetables and quality standards, and to document and communicate employee production levels and training needs.

● Trains co-workers, as directed, in specific tasks, job practices and procedures of electrician’s work to improve and maintain the performance levels of these employees.

● Maintains the City’s street lighting, traffic signal, fiber and camera infrastructure.

● Repairs and replaces electrical circuits, fixtures, lamps, motors, streetlight starters, switches, wires and other electrical equipment.

● Diagnoses electrical systems and component operating problems.

● Operates bucket truck to access wires, lamps, and other electrical components above ground.

● Stocks trucks and ensures equipment and supplies are available to complete work.

● Responds to emergencies as paged.

● Participates in on-call rotation.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor co-workers in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to act as a lead person.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as bucket truck, circuit tester/tracer, multimeter, electrician hand and power tools, common hand tools, compressor, pipe threader, welding equipment, trencher, cable puller, saws, hydraulic lifts, hoist, shop bench tools, jacks, overhead crane, carpenter’s tools, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of reference, descriptive and advisory data and information such as electrical blueprints, architectural drawings, schematics, work orders, work schedules, accident reports, electrical codes, supply inventories, technical operating manuals, materials safety data sheets, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, fractions and decimals; calculate area and volume; may require the ability to perform mathematical operations involving basic geometry or trigonometry.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents and traffic hazards.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull over one hundred (100) pounds to repair and replace electrical equipment such as stringing wires, and installing conduit, motors and other equipment. Requires the ability to stoop, crouch, crawl, balance, climb, bend and twist to install electrical equipment, climb poles, operate bucket trucks, using ladders and tools.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks. Incumbents are required to identify colors of wires, sounds and odors to determine proper operation of motors, and clearly distinguish shapes from far and close range.