Traffic Control

Position Summary

Responsible for performing various hand duties including job site set up, tear down and safety around the job site including safe vehicular traffic control.

Experience Level

Entry

Primary Responsibilities and Duties

•    Setup, maintain, and remove temporary work zones including warning signs, traffic cones, stop slow paddles, and rumble strips
•    Communicate to ensure that automobiles and pedestrians do not interfere with or pose a danger to laborers and their projects.
•    Maintain traffic controls in all assigned work zones and report any problems 
•    Responsible for understanding general work flow patterns in work zones and ensuring proper protocol and traffic requirements are followed and discussed with foreman/supervisor.
•    Assist in the placement, moving and dismantling of signs, barricades, cones and other traffic control devices.
•    Direct movement of traffic through site, using sign, hand and flag signals.
•    Inform construction workers when approaching vehicle fails to heed signals to prevent accident and injury to workers.
•    Inform drivers of detour routes through construction sites.

Qualifications

•    Must possess working knowledge skills and abilities for position.
•    Ability to understand, follow and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management/supervision.
•    Ability to use hand tools, power tools and layout tools safe and efficiently.

Requirements

• The person in this position needs to constantly move about a construction/industrial site, 
so should be able to stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl
• Constantly works in a construction environment and will be exposed to changing outdoor 
weather conditions
• Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime and holidays as required
• May be required to use ladders/mechanical platforms/manlifts/scaffold to access 
required equipment/work areas (may exceed 200 feet), so must be able to climb and 
maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders and scaffolds
• Move and work in and around confined and cluttered places, and uneven surfaces
• Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy and dusty environment
• May be required/able to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across 
construction/industrial site
• Must have required tools
• Observe and comply with all safety and project rules, perform other duties as required
• Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing, fit for duty medical and background 
check