Inspector, Code Compliance

Join a workforce where innovation and teamwork provide support to the community and citizens of Monroe County.
Compensation:
$57,357.73 - $88,904.48
Job Description:
The primary function of this position is to receive, document, and investigate violations of the Monroe County Code, Standard Building Code, and State and Federal Regulations. Attends and represents the Code Compliance Department during speaking engagements. Coordinates activities and/or works with other local State and Federal agencies on special projects. Attends education programs or classes to attain certifications. Serves as a resource and provides information on County regulations to property owners, residents, businesses, the general public, and other County departments and divisions.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Investigates, validates, researches, and cites violations of County ordinances, State and Federal Regulations, inter-local agreements, or codes and regulations.
• Prepares and presents cases before the Code Compliance Special Magistrate or other legal proceedings.
• Performs communication and dissemination of codes to public and other agencies both verbally and in writing.
• Travels as required throughout area of responsibility.
• Performs proactive and reactive response to complaints and violations, issue citations, courtesy notices, and NOV's determined from said investigations.
• Maintains case files and progression to compliance status.
• Performs a variety of field and office work in support of the County's local Code Compliance program.
• Enforces compliance with County regulations and ordinances including those pertaining to zoning, land use, nuisance, housing, building codes, health and safety, navigational hazards, water waste, and other matters of public concern.
• Conducts field investigations, inspects properties for violations, issues stop work notice, takes photos, and attempts to obtain compliance through verbal communication, courtesy notices, meetings, and/or Notice of Violations.
• Attends meetings and serves as a resource to other County departments, divisions, the general public, and outside agencies in the enforcement of zoning regulations; provide research and documentation for meetings.
• Interprets and explains municipal codes and ordinances to members of the general public, contractors, business owners, and other interested groups in the field, over the counter, and on the telephone.
• Assists in researching, drafting, and rewriting municipal codes.
• Participates in the development of forms and processes utilized to address various issues.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.
• In the event of special, emergency, or disaster situations, employee may be required to work schedules other than those for which they are regularly scheduled in any capacity deemed appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS
Education and Experience:
Associate degree or two years college equivalent. 3 years minimum of prior related work experience. An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience may substitute for the education requirement.
Special Qualifications:
None.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to have guidelines for work assignments but determine the approach for doing the work.
• Ability to perform professional-level work dealing with data, people, and technology that relates to administrative, technical, scientific, engineering, accounting, legal, or managerial skills.
• Ability to work in a responsive environment where co-workers or citizens bring problems for resolution.
• Ability to determine problems and create individual solutions for issues.
• Ability to oversee and manage work involving multiple units.
• Ability to work regularly with other managers to successfully meet the goals and objectives of our organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The work is not sedentary and requires exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. The amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
• Handling: Picking, holding, or otherwise working, primarily with the whole hand.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination in sound.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
• Manual Dexterity: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
• Mental Acuity: Ability to make rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.
• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.
• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. Occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Visual Acuity: Have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
Work is performed in a dynamic environment that requires sensitivity and responsiveness to changes that include goals, priorities, and needs of the organization and position.
Monroe County has the right to revise this job description at any time. This description does not represent in any way a contract of employment.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Monroe County does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, or military service in employment or the provision of services.
Empleador de Igualdad de Oportunidades: El Condado de Monroe no discrimina por motivos de raza, color, origen nacional, género, religión, edad, discapacidad o servicio militar en el empleo o la prestación de servicios.
Veterans Preference according to Florida State Statute 295.07: Certain service members and veterans, and the spouses and family members of the servicemembers and veterans, receive preference and priority in employment by the state and are encouraged to apply for the positions being filled.
Preferencia de Veteranos de acuerdo con el Estatuto del Estado de Florida 295.07: Ciertos miembros del servicio y veteranos, y los cónyuges y familiares de los miembros del servicio y veteranos, reciben preferencia y prioridad en el empleo por parte del estado y se les alienta a solicitar los puestos que se están llenando.