District Sign Specialist 1-2: Sign Install & Maintenance

State of Louisiana

Bossier City (LA)

On-site

USD 23,000 - 28,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) District 04 is seeking a District Sign Specialist to perform basic sign installation, replacement, and maintenance on State and Federal highways, following MUTCD and DOTD manuals. The role requires occasional afterhours work and a Class D Chauffeur's License, with lifting up to 40 pounds.

Appointment type may be Probational or Promotional. District Sign Specialist 1 earns $17.18/hour and Specialist 2 earns $19.67/hour.

Qualifications

No experience or training is required.

Responsibilities

Performs all sign installation, replacement, and maintenance on all State and Federal Highways in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD). This includes highway signing, construction signing, road closures, barricades, warning, and other permanent and temporary signing.
Helps determine the exact placement of signs based on field conditions for speed zones, weight limits, and other regulatory signing by interpreting legal orders (signed by the Chief Engineer), establishing these regulations.
Maintains daily work orders (including GPS readings of sign locations), material usage reports, tracking truck inventory, using PDA's and other electronic devices, installing barricades as needed for traffic control assignments, cleaning signs and performing discriminative tree and limb cutting to clear obscured signs in order to provide required sign distances.