Civilian Fire and Life Safety Inspector

Fire Safety Inspector IThis position performs technical and clerical tasks in fire inspection, prevention, and public education, including responsibility for field enforcement of City Code of Ordinances and the Florida Fire Prevention Code. Employee works in accordance with directives received from Fire Chief or designee, however, is expected to exercise considerable independence and initiative. Essential functions and responsibilities include: Performs field inspections of new/existing buildings during the construction process; compares actual work to planned work to ensure compliance with approved construction plans. Inspects new/remodeled commercial buildings, industrial buildings, assemblies, and businesses. Working knowledge of Florida Fire Prevention Code, Local, and City ordinances. Conducts building plan review, demolition inspections, code infraction warnings and citations. Enforces fire prevention codes and ordinances firmly, tactfully and impartially. Evaluates proposed fire protection elements of a building and assures that they are in accordance with applicable codes. Prepare reports and correspondence pertaining to fire protection engineering problems and fire and life safety code enforcement. Evaluate alternate suppression systems such as CO2 systems, dry systems and water based fire suppression systems. Attend meetings with staff, engineers, architects, and contractors, for technical assistance and resolutions to various problems. Maintain proficiency with code changes and ordinances. Prepare comments identifying code deficiencies. Provide technical information to the general public for questions relating to building code requirements. May perform site inspections to confirm construction compliance with approved plans. Fosters positive employee relations and employee morale on a City-wide basis. Minimum qualifications include: An Associate's Degree in a related field. Two (2) years of experience and training in fire inspections, plan review and code enforcement. Must possess State of Florida Fire Safety Inspector I Certification. Supplemental information includes: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Travel from site to site; work in the field, construction site and office environments; exposure to noise, dust, grease, smoke, fumes, gases, potentially hazardous chemicals; inspect in restricted spaces. Employee may have to work outside in a subtropical climate under adverse weather conditions and high noise levels. Employee may have to work rotating shifts to include nights, weekends and holidays. Employees may be required to participate in response/recovery activities in response to a major emergency or natural disasters affecting City operations. In such situations, every effort will be made to maintain operations, but employees may be assigned to carry out response activities suited to their skills and capabilities. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear, use hands to finger, handle, feel, or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk and stand. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 90 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.