Traffic Technicians
The traffic flow, traffic conditions, and traffic lights are regularly monitored by a Traffic Technician.
Traffic Technicians are responsible for monitoring the traffic volume of your busy commute to work, traffic conditions, and lighting effectiveness with a traffic engineer. Possible job titles include Traffic Signal Technician, Field Traffic Investigator, Traffic Control Technician, and Traffic Analyst.
Valuable skills for Traffic Technicians include communication, instructing, social awareness, decision making, time management, critical thinking, and writing. People who make good Traffic Technicians have excellent reasoning ability, information ordering, and problem sensitivity.
Daily tasks for Traffic Technicians include interfacing with the public about traffic inquiries, complaints, and requests; analyze traffic flow data to decide the best way to expedite the flow of traffic; determine the traffic through counters; compile data from machine count tapes for computer input.
Traffic Technicians work inside or in a vehicle, coordinating a team, and coming in frequent contact with the public. They communicate with others via telephone, email, letter, and in person.
In order to start a career as a Traffic Technician, you need education from a vocational school, associate’s degree, or relevant on-the-job experience. This education will provide you with a workable understanding of engineering, transportation, public safety, design, computers and electronics, building and construction, and customer service.
Traffic Technicians make approximately $19/hour and $39,530 annually. With 3,400 job openings projected over the next decade, this career is charted for average growth.