Job Description:

• 1) Tests, adjusts, and repairs mercury-vapor, fluorescent, electric-arc, or incandescent street lights and traffic signals in shop: Disassembles lamp, using handtools.

• 2) Tests and examines components to determine need for repair or replacement, using electrical testing devices, such as test lamps, voltmeter, and wattmeter.

• 3) Repairs or replaces broken connections, defective coils, cracked insulators, and other electrical components.

• 4) Connects repaired lamp to test circuit and regulates such adjustable components as shunt coils until lamp meets operating specifications, according to electrical gauge readings, using screwdriver.

• 5) Winds replacement coils on bench lathe and bakes freshly insulated coils in oven.

• 6) Installs repaired lamp in outside casing or canopy.