Actively supports and upholds the City's stated mission and values. Under general supervision of the Building Inspection Manager, employees of this class are expected to perform highly skilled technical inspection duties associated with residential, commercial, and industrial building construction.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
- Supervisory: This job does not have formal supervisory responsibilities.
- Budgetary: This job does not have budgetary responsibilities but carries out day-to day activities within approved budget.
- Strategic Planning: This job does not have strategic planning responsibilities but carries out day-to-day activities in order to reach the stated goals and objectives.
- Policies/Procedures: This job carries out day-to-day activities in accordance with established policies and procedures.
- Compliance: This job has partial responsibility at the section level (follows, assists in ensuring compliance with, and may enforce) Federal, State, and Local laws, rules, and regulations as well as City policies and procedures.
- Council Communications: This job carries out day-to-day activities in accordance with Council's adopted priorities and direction.
Reporting: This job does not have duties related to reporting to Federal/State/Local agencies.
- Provides excellent customer service to both internal and external customers.
- Inspects all buildings in the process of construction, alteration, or repair for compliance with the suite of adopted International Codes and takes appropriate action for correction of violations.
- Inspects existing buildings for change of use or occupancy for compliance with applicable codes and ordinances.
- Reviews commercial and residential plans for compliance with code requirements and requires corrections where necessary.
- Maintains good working relationships with contractors, owner/builders, and others involved in building projects.
- Inspects buildings being demolished to assure that proper safety methods are being employed and to protect adjacent property and the public.
- Makes reports on violations in preparation for legal action and keeps records regarding inspections.
- Inspects mobile home installations for compliance with applicable state and City requirements.
- Inspects existing structures, when requested, for any life-threatening hazards or code deficiency of any kind.
- Keeps inspection records up-to-date and in good order.
- Attends staff meetings to maintain consistent enforcement of procedures and policy updates.
- Maintains continuing education to keep abreast of new code changes, materials, and methods of construction, as directed by the Building Inspection Manager.
- Attends and gives witness testimony at State of Arizona Registrar of Contractors hearings as directed by the Building Inspection Manager.
- Coordinates and provides support to various sections and divisions throughout the course of project development to maintain approval sequence and conformance to regulations.
- Reports to the Building Inspection Manager on a regular basis regarding status, irregularities, and other concerns associated with responsibilities.
- Inspects damaged or dilapidated buildings for structural integrity or unsanitary conditions.
- Maintains an assigned geographical area to identify illegal, dangerous, unsafe, and unpermitted conditionsalong with issuing violation notices and performing follow-up inspections to ensure corrections are made.
- Ability to consistently interpret and explain gray areas of the code to citizens in an attempt to reach consensus and a common solution acceptable to all concerned parties.
- Performs related duties, as assigned.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- Associates Degree or two years of construction related college coursework.
- Five years of experience in building construction utilizing a number of the building trades, i.e., framing, electric, plumbing, and HVAC.
- Building Inspector certification issued by International Code Council at date of hire.
- Or any combination of education, experience, and training equivalent to the above minimum requirements.
DESIRED EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
- One year of experience in building inspection for a governmental organization.
- One additional ICC Certification (building, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical inspector) or any other related certifications.
- Considerable knowledge of the various municipal codes relating to all phases of construction.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- Must possess, or obtain upon employment, a valid Arizona driver's license.
- Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity.
- Must obtain one additional certification issued by International Code Council within one year of employment. All certifications must be maintained as active certifications.
- All Emergency Service Employees shall maintain their principal residence within the state boundaries of Arizona. All Emergency Service Employees, except those holding a position in Fire, will arrive at the assigned or emergency work location within one (1) hour from notification to report to duty.
- Employees may be designated a take home City vehicle.
- Employees who are designated to take home a City vehicle per the Vehicle Take Home Administrative Policy must live within the prescribed area. The defined as a 12-mile radius from City Hall or 35 miles eastbound, westbound, and southbound from the 1-17 and 1-40 exchanges, or 10 miles from City Hall along Highway 180 North with a five mile-wide corridor (2 ½ miles on each side).
- Ability and willingness to be available for on-call weekend, holiday, and evening work as dictated by work projects and manning requirements.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (ILLUSTRATIVE ONLY)
- Under direct supervision of the Building Inspection Manager, employees of this class are expected to exercise considerable judgement, initiative, and professional skills and knowledge in the inspection of buildings to ensure compliance with the suite of adopted International Codes, standards and regulations.
- Considerable knowledge of all major types of building construction materials, methods, and the stages of construction, when possible, violations and defects may be easily observed and corrected.
- Demonstrated ability to read and interpret plans, specifications, and blueprints and to correlate them to construction in process.
- Ability to work with contractors and building owners in a tactful and professional manner.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships internally and externally.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in written form.
- Intermediate computer skills, including typing, email, file management, and internet browser-based applications.
- Ability to organize time, schedules, documentation, and daily workload accordingly.
- Ability to create and maintain inspection records.
- Ability to perform technical calculations associated with sizes, lengths, and installation requirements of various building components.
- Ability to ascend and descend ladders, unfinished stairs without handrails, scaffolding, and sloped roofs.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk/stand, and talk or hear, regularly required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, use hands or fingers to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms and occasionally required to sit, climb or balance and taste or smell.
- The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
- Vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), Peripheral vision (ability to see up, down, left, and right while eyes fixed on a given point) and Depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge distances and spatial relationships), Color vision (ability to identify and distinguish colors) and Ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus).
- Working conditions include frequent exposure to outdoor weather conditions. Conditions regularly include work in high precarious places, work near moving mechanical parts and vibration Conditions occasionally include exposure to fumes or airborne particles, extreme cold (non-weather) and risk of electrical shock.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually Loud noise (examples: metal can manufacture department, large earth-moving equipment).
