TRAFFIC PAINTER - City of Torrance
Torrance, CA
About the Job
The Department
The Public Works Department is a dynamic organization that readily adapts to the needs of the Torrance Community in providing quality and reliable service to the public. The department is made up of over 200 employees within five distinct divisions who provide service to our residents, businesses, and other City departments to improve and maintain the City's streets, sidewalks, landscaping, traffic, sewers, waste collection, and water systems.
The Division
The Street Operations Division maintains over 800 miles of streets and over 500 miles of curbs, gutters, and sidewalks. Public Works also maintains storm water basins (sumps) and open ditches. This includes filling potholes, patching streets, repairing City parking lots, as well as assisting in larger capital improvement projects. We also maintain State highways that run through our city. The Division is made up of three sections: Street Maintenance, Concrete and Traffic and Lighting.
The Position
Under general supervision, Under general supervision, performs skilled work in traffic line and legend painting, fabricating traffic regulatory warning and directional signs, and installing and maintaining signs and sign posts; and performs other related work as required.
Distinguished from Traffic and Lighting Supervisor in that the incumbent regularly performs work in traffic line and legend painting, fabricating traffic regulatory warning and directional signs, and installing and maintaining signs and sign posts. At this level, incumbents work with only occasional instruction or assistance; work requires incumbents to exercise judgment in selecting appropriate guidelines to follow; significant deviations require prior approval.
Supervision is received from the Traffic and Lighting Supervisor. The Traffic Painter may provide technical direction to lower level classifications.
EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL DUTIES
The following duties represent the principal job duties however; they are not all-inclusive.Paints pavement markings including legends, school crossings, and crosswalks, while operating a flatbed truck with airless spray unit, airless spray gun, and stencils;
Paints City curbs to regulate parking, utilizing a flatbed truck with airless unit, and an airless spray gun;
Paints traffic lines while operating a self-propelled line striper with airless spray unit and regulators;
Properly cleans the equipment, flushing out all hoses and spray guns and cleaning and lubricating the automatic spray guns; Makes minor repairs;
Operates and maintains high temperature thermoplastic application equipment.
Installs and repairs signs, replacing defective, destroyed, or damaged traffic signs, and placing new traffic signs to regulate, safeguard, and expedite traffic.
Utilizes posthole digger, shovels, digging bars, brooms, ladders, and other hand and power tools; tools; Fabricates signs for traffic control and direction.
Correctly lays out letters on the sign blank.
Lays out regulation traffic lines on new City streets, checking and reading blueprints approved by the City Engineer.
Utilizes ropes, paints traffic dots to guide the street striping operation, measuring all traffic lane lines according to the blueprint specifications.
Installs traffic directional pavement buttons utilizing epoxy and placing the pavement buttons in accordance with the specifications and blueprints.
Paints traffic lines in City parking lots, tennis and basketball courts, utilizing traffic line striper.
Thins and mixes paints to proper consistency to enable the effective application.
Lays out job sites, placing safety signs and devices sufficient to protect all members of the crew.
Performs routine and light maintenance of equipment including cleaning and maintaining paint spray outfits, brushes, templates, stencils, paint truck and other equipment.
EXAMPLES OF OTHER DUTIES
The following duties represent duties that are generally performed by this position, but are not considered to be principal job duties:Responds to emergency calls during work and after normal working hours;
Assists in the training of new and lower classification employees;
Maintains and cleans equipment and tools; maintains a clean and orderly workplace;
May maintain field reports, and work orders;
Performs other related duties
