Job Description:

• 1) Maintains and repairs mercury-vapor, fluorescent, electric-arc, or incandescent street lights and traffic signals: Climbs ladder or stands in tower-truck bucket to reach lamp.

• 2) Tests circuits and electric components to locate grounded wires, broken connections, or defective current-control mechanisms, using electrical testing instruments.

• 3) Replaces blown fuses and bulbs, faulty transformers, photoelectric timers, electrodes, and wires, using electricians' handtools.

• 4) See LINE REPAIRER and TROUBLE SHOOTER II for classification of workers also qualified to work on high-voltage power lines.

• 5) May install and repair traffic signals only and be designated Traffic-Signal Repairer.