Building Official
- Denver, CO
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assists in the overall administration and daily operations of the building department.
- Perform field inspections during various stages of construction.
- Report violations and maintain files/records.
- Read and examine plans and specifications for commercial, industrial, and residential projects to ensure compliance with city, state, and federal laws and regulations.
- Initiates preconstruction conferences with contractors and/or developers and associated staff members.
- Assess and resolve complaints received from clients, applicants, public, designers, and contractors.
- Attends meetings, educational seminars, and functions relating to building codes.
- Form and maintain positive relationships with Town/City Hall Personnel and company staff.
- Work with plans examiners and inspectors in other company offices to develop customer handouts and checklists across all offices.
- Identify projects requiring outside technical resources-structural, mechanical, electrical engineering or other special plans examiner skills not present in the office. Manage the process of utilizing these services.
- Identify areas of weakness in an employee's skills and work to improve those skills through coaching, training, or certification.
- Ensure that customer commitments and company goals related to plan review turnaround times and field inspections are consistently met or exceeded.
- Identify areas for improvement in office operations, customer service level, employee efficiency, and implement changes.
- Perform periodic site visits to review on-going projects (commercial and residential) to validate reviewed plans against actual projects.
- Ability to demonstrate extensive knowledge of local building code regulations, policies and procedures
- Client and team management experience in a building department setting
- Have solid computer skills and experience using MS Office programs
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Exercise initiative and display independent judgment
- Be self-directed and self-motivated
- ICC Certified Building Official
- Experience supervising building department staff
- ICC building plans examiner certification preferred
- ICC plans examiner certifications in multiple trades preferred
- ICC Inspector certifications in multiple trades preferred
- Inspection and plan review experience for commercial and residential structures preferred