Chief Building Official

DESCRIPTION

The Chief Building Official ensures that all construction projects comply with local, state, and federal building codes and regulations. This includes reviewing plans, issuing permits, and conducting inspections.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manages, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.

• Organizes, prioritizes, and assigns work: develops and monitors work schedules to ensure adequate coverage and control; prioritizes and schedules work activities in order to meet objectives; ensures that subordinates have the proper resources needed to complete the assigned work; monitors status of work in progress and inspects completed work; consults with assigned staff to assist with complex/problem situations and provide technical expertise; and provides progress and activity reports to department management and Consolidated administrators and elected officials as requested.

• Develops, implements, and updates policies and procedures for area of assignment: formulates and develops work methods and practices, policies, standard operating procedures, and training programs; monitors implementation of rules and regulations; and updates policies and procedures according to local, state or federal legislation as required.

• Develops and implements budget for area of assignment: forecasts expenditures and revenues, including staffing, equipment, and supplies; monitors expenditures to ensure compliance with approved budget; reviews and approves purchase requisitions; and maintains related documentation.

• Interprets, administers and enforces the provisions of applicable local, state and federal building codes and development codes: researches code-related issues as needed; develops and implements new programs to better ensure the safety and welfare of the public and environment; researches and composes new ordinances related to building and environmental concerns; and establishes fees and penalties.

• Provides information and technical assistance concerning codes and ordinances, code interpretation, code requirements, construction plan review, building permits, building inspections, code violations/compliance, or related issues to Consolidated Government staff members and departments, the public, builders, developers or others as needed: researches problems and initiates resolution of problems/complaints; and serves as liaison to related boards and committees.

• Ensures compliance with all applicable codes, laws, rules, regulations, standards, policies and procedures: ensures adherence to established safety procedures; utilizes precautionary safety equipment and monitors work environment to ensure safety of employees and other individuals; and initiates any actions necessary to correct deviations or violations.

• Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge and awareness of applicable laws/regulations: maintains an awareness of new trends and advances in the profession; reads professional literature; maintains professional affiliations; and attends workshops and training sessions as appropriate.

• Perform other duties of a similar nature or level.

Requires responding to staff call up in an emergency situation and some travel.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Associate's Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering or a related skilled trades area required.

Experience: Seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience enforcing building codes and ordinances, to include lead or supervisory experience. Possess four ICC Certifications including: Building Plans Examiners, Commercial Building Inspector, and Fire Inspector.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

Licensing/Certification:

• Must possess (or obtain within 30 days of hire) and maintain a valid Georgia or South Carolina driver's license.

• Must possess and maintain the following certifications through the International Code Council: Master Code Professional, Building Official, and Building Inspector. May be required to obtain other certifications and licensures as deemed necessary.

PERFORMANCE APTITUDES:

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.

• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to function in a managerial capacity for a division or organizational unit; includes the ability to make decisions on procedural and technical levels.

• Equipment: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

• Verbal: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory and/or design data and information.

• Math: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; ability to calculate decimals and percentages; may include ability to perform mathematical operations with fractions; may include ability to compute discount, interest, and ratios; may include ability to calculate surface areas, volumes, weights, and measures.

• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or synthesis functions; to deal with several concrete and abstract variables; and to analyze major problems that require complex planning for interrelated activities that can span one or several work units.

• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.

• Physical Abilities: Tasks require the ability to exert moderate, though not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and prolonged standing, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).

• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

• Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, , temperature and noise extremes, hazardous materials, unsafe structures, heights, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, bright/dim lights, and toxic agents.