Bachelor's degree in Traffic/Civil Engineering or Transportation Planning or a related field is required. Two to three years of professional experience in Traffic Engineering to include signal design, signal timing and system operation. Two or more years of progressively more responsible supervisory or managerial experience. Possess a valid driver's license issued by the state of Georgia or Alabama or be able to obtain one within sixty-days (60) after being hired. Registration as a Professional Engineer preferred.
The work is typically performed while sitting at a desk or table or while intermittently sitting, standing, walking, or stooping. The employee frequently lifts light objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a high degree of dexterity, and must distinguish between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
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Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
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Feeling – perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
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Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
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Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
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Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
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Hearing 2 – receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
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Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
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Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
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Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
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Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
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Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
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Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
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Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
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Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
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Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
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Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
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Talking 2 – shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
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Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
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Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
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Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
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Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
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Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
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Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The work is typically performed in an office or in the field, occasionally in cold, hot or inclement weather. The employee may be exposed to machinery with moving parts. The work requires the use of protective gear, devices and to occasionally works in moving traffic.
