Plumbing Inspector
Arlington County’s Department of Community Planning, Housing, and Development (CPHD) is seeking an experienced Plumbing Inspector to ensure that the County’s initiatives adhere to conventional requirements and applicable codes and laws. This position will assist in complex plumbing inspections of businesses, and excessive-upward thrust new construction.
Specific responsibilities include:
Conducting and documenting pass connection and code enforcement inspections for the County’s new residential one-and-own family dwellings and occasional upward push creation tasks;
Inspecting plumbing and gasoline becoming installations all through creation;
Examining finished installations for quality and use of proper substances;
Assisting and advising plumbers, contractors, and others concerning plumbing rules;
Identifying and recommending solutions consistent with code necessities for subject situations affecting production plans.
This plumbing inspector role can be filled on the construction codes inspector I, II, or III degrees based on the candidate’s qualifications and qualifications. Once hired, the worker will be trained on materials, methodology, and code requirements for excessive residential and industrial-upward push inspections (see beneath Additional Information for earnings levels).
Each Inspector gets pass education in all code enforcement regions and can be chargeable for offering a technical route of their uniqueness to different inspectors.
Selection Criteria
Minimum: High School Diploma, GED or equivalent, plus;
Codes Inspector I: Three years’ trades area of expertise in plumbing or trendy building production and codes inspection or enforcement.
Codes Inspector II: 3 years’ trades forte in plumbing or standard building construction reveal three hundred and sixty-five days of enjoyment in unique location construction codes inspection or enforcement.
Codes Inspector III: three years of trade distinctiveness in plumbing or popular construction, reveling in years of experience in trade areas of expertise in creation codes inspection or enforcement.
Substitution: Apprenticeship and exchange college education related to forte place may additionally substitute for up to 1 yr of widespread revel in on a year-for-yr basis.
Desirable: Preference will be given to applicants with one or more of the following:
a) Experience applying and deciphering the Uniform Statewide Codes in plumbing;
b) Experience/certification in go-connection devices inspection and) Certification in a creative exchange.
Special Requirements
The worker should be certified in trade uniqueness within three hundred and sixty-five days of lease and need to progress through the Construction Codes Inspector series to Construction Codes Inspector III within three years of hire, completing all the required training modules and passing the specified examinations to end up certified as the following:
Combination Residential Inspector and
Commercial Building Inspector in changing strong point.
The applicant needs to possess or attain a legitimate motor vehicle operator’s license from the applicant’s place of residence by the time of appointment, and the applicant ought to authorize Arlington County to reap. The applicant must also provide a duplicate of the applicant’s professional state/district riding document. Any offer of employment may be contingent upon a favorable evaluation of the applicant’s driving record.
Additional Information
Salary Information:
The salary range for Construction Codes Inspector I is $ forty-seven 236.Eighty – $ seventy-two,113.60.
The profits variety for Construction Codes Inspector II is $54,641.60 – $ eighty-three 449.60.
The salary range for Construction Codes Inspector III is $$58,427.20 – $89,273.60.
Please be aware that the abovementioned salaries are due July 1, 2019.
A preferred county background test might be administered to all candidates. Additional history tests may be vital before admittance to comfortable federal facilities.
Positions require hiking ladders, going into trenches, walking up stairways, accessing small spaces, and spending numerous hours an afternoon standing and walking. Substantial time is spent exterior or in buildings below construction/upkeep in all styles of climate conditions. Working correctly with others is essential, although the employee generally works independently on area inspections, making choices requiring using technical judgment and restraint.
Normal work hours are 7:00 a.m. To a few:30 p.M. Monday via Friday. Occasionally, inspections are scheduled outside of the every day painting hours. Inspectors commonly start and cease the workplace and must participate in conferences and mission groups.
