Chief Building Official

Job Description

Anticipated Salary Range: $100,000 - $140,000

Benefits: This position is benefits eligible. Please view our benefits guide  here .

Job Summary

Reporting to the Deputy Community Development Director, the City of Greeley’s Chief Building Official directs, manages, supervises, and coordinates the activities and operations of the Building Inspection Division within the Community Development Department. This position oversees building inspection and enforcement of state laws, codes, and local ordinances dealing with the construction of new buildings and the alteration, use, and ongoing safety of existing buildings. They coordinate assigned activities with other divisions, departments, and outside agencies and provide highly responsible and complex administrative support to the Community Development Director.

The Chief Building Official manages a Building Permit Technician, two Plans Examiners, and five Building Inspectors. They monitor staff workload on residential and commercial permitting processes, plan reviews, and building inspections, as well as unsafe and dangerous building inspections, residential rental inspections, business and liquor license inspections, and fire safety business inspections. This position effectively trains, mentors, and evaluates the performance of Department staff; helps advise the development of short- and long-range plans; and gathers, interprets, and prepares data for studies, reports, and recommendations.

Coordinating division activities with other divisions, departments, and agencies as needed is part of the Chief Official’s job. They also assure that assigned areas of responsibility are performed within budget; perform cost-control activities; monitor revenues and expenditures to assure sound fiscal control; prepare annual budget request; and assure effective and efficient use of budgeted funds, personnel, materials, facilities, and time.

This position is in daily contact with staff, city employees, citizens, contractors, developers, and realtors on any issues involving permitting, plan reviews, inspections, field inspectors, plan review comments, and code interpretations. The Chief Building Official responds to requests pertaining to the applicability of codes, ordinances, city and state statues, related regulations and industry standards, the codes enforcement processes, and case-specific information, while maintaining required security and confidentiality of information

Experience, Knowledge, Skills

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree gained through a four-year college/university academic program or specialized technical training of equivalent length.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Construction or Inspection Management is required.
• Must have or be able to obtain the ICC Certified Building Official certification or UBC certification within one year.
  
  

Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Essential Functions

• Resolving complex customer service issues.
• Providing guidance regarding codes to architects, engineers, contractors, developers, and other parties.
• Conducting field inspection as required, including pre-inspection of premises to identify possible conflicts for future occupancies, potential code violations, illegal and dangerous structures and occupancies, reported code violations, and new and remodel construction projects as needed.
• Handling plan review for new and remodel projects, both residential and commercial.
• Maintaining professional relationships with the Northern Colorado Building Department’s leadership through professional organizations, such as Colorado Chapter of the International Code Council.
• Monitoring the incoming field inspection requests and the plan reviews to ensure completion in a timely matter.
• Hiring, training, motivating, and coaching employees; evaluating employee performance and goal setting; and holding employees accountable for assigned task and goals.
• Providing timely and constructive feedback and training opportunities with a focus on employee development.
• Resolving conflicts and complaints.
• Analyzing information and developing more effective and efficient processes.
• Establishing and achieving business and financial objectives.
• Ensuring compliance with safety procedures
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Organize and delegate assignments to team members. 
• Hiring, training, motivating and coaching employees. 
• Evaluate employee performance and goal setting. 
• Hold employees accountable for assigned tasks and goals. 
• Provide timely and constructive feedback and training opportunities. 
• Provide training opportunities with a focus on employee development. 
• Resolve conflicts and complaints. 
• Analyzing information and processes and developing more effective or efficient processes. 
• Establishing and achieving business and financial objectives. 
• Ensure compliance with safety procedures. 
  
  

Work Environment And Physical Requirements

• Employee is subject to working alone, with groups, and/or attending meetings.
• May be required to conduct business in alternate locations within City buildings or field sites, sometimes in formal settings.
• May be required to work extended hours in the evening, holidays, or weekends.
• Frequent interruptions and be required to manage competing priorities with inflexible deadlines.
• Frequent participation in meetings.
• Frequent contact occurs with employees and the public, in person and on the telephone.
• Frequently is required to sit and talk or hear customers.
• Ability to manage competing priorities with frequent interruptions and an expected high level of accuracy in work is expected.
• Work is safe to having minimal hazards that are typically found in a general office environment where there is rarely little or no exposure to injury or accident.
  
  

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data/figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading of printed materials; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices--graphs and gauges; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity for close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machinery where the seeing job is at or within arm's reach and to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment. 
• Employee is required to have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures for inspection purposes. 
• Moderate to considerable physical effort that includes working from ladders in awkward positions, frequent use of light or medium weight objects (e.g., 30 lbs) and use of medium weight tools; walking on uneven ground or having to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach while performing duties; entering/exiting manholes or vaults; walking near or across rivers and ditches; working in all weather conditions at times of excessive temperatures of heat and extreme cold, working in or near moving traffic with appropriate traffic control set up.
• The essential functions of this job require frequent balancing, bending/stooping, carrying/lifting light to heavy objects, climbing, fingering, grasping, repetitive motion, hearing, sitting, standing, talking, and walking. Occasionally the employee will be required to pull, push, reach, feel temperature, and kneel.
  
  

EOE Statement: The City of Greeley provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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