Also called: Street Lighting Electrician, Roadway Lighting Technician
Keeps a city’s streetlights, highway lights and decorative lamps working, from bucket-truck repairs to smart LED controls.
You get a list of 30 dark streetlights reported by residents and an online smart-light dashboard. From a bucket truck you swap fixtures and photocells, find a cut underground cable, and finish by checking lights after dark.
Estimated; city and utility jobs.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Electrical or utility apprenticeship; some cities train on the job.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Electrical Technology (trade school).
Growing about average. LED and smart-pole upgrades add work.
Low risk for 10 years. Smart lights report their own failures, but fixing them on poles stays hands-on.
Classes: Electricity or shop, Physics, Algebra.
Official data: O*NET occupation 47-2111.
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