LREP-2026-1H Title Examiner (Hourly) (REPOST)

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: Use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must only include sections when posting has real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Key info: - Open to: General Public - Work Week: 35 Hours Per Week (up to 900 hours maximum per fiscal year) - Salary: $26 per hour - Opening Date: 9/24/2026 - Closing Date: 10/15/2026 - Existing Vacancies: 1 - Program/Location: Department of Environmental Protection Legal Regulatory & Enforcement Policy Office of Transactions and Public Land Administration 401 East State Street Trenton, NJ 08625 - Scope of Eligibility: Open to applicants who meet the requirements below. Applicants who already filed for this posting need not reapply, as previously submitted resumes will be taken into consideration for this position. - Description: Under limited supervision... (long description of duties) - Specific to the Position: (list of tasks) - Preferred Skill Set: Preference will be given to candidates with prior experience working on or handling real estate transactions involving public entities. Excellent analytical skills; professional written and oral communication skills, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently, as well as in a group/team atmosphere. - Requirements: Applicants must meet one of the following or a combination of both experience and education. Thirty (30) semester hour credits are equal to one (1) year of relevant experience. Five (5) years of professional experience in title searching and other work incidental to the conveyance of real estate. OR Possession of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; and one (1) year of the above-mentioned professional experience. NOTE: "Professional experience" refers to work that is analytical, evaluative, and interpretive; requires a range of basic knowledge of the profession's concepts and practices; and is performed with the authority to act and make accurate and informed decisions. NOTE: All U.S. degrees and transcripts must be from an accredited college or university. All foreign degrees and transcripts must be evaluated for accreditation by a recognized evaluation service by the closing date of this posting. Failure to provide documentation may result in ineligibility. License Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position. SAME Applicants If you are applying under the NJ SAME program, your supporting documents (Schedule A or B letter) must be submitted along with your resume by the closing date indicated above. For more information on the SAME program, please visit SAME Program, email SAME@csc.nj.gov, or call CSC at (609) 292-4144 and select Option #3. - Employee Benefits: TES / Hourly employee benefits include: Earned Sick Time*Enrollment in Defined Contribution Retirement Plan upon meeting minimum earnings threshold*Earn one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours you work - Veteran's Preference: To qualify for New Jersey Veteran's Preference/status, you must establish Veteran's Preference through the Department of Military and Veteran's Affairs. Please submit proof of your Veteran's Preference along with your resume as indicated. For more information, please visit https://www.nj.gov/military/veterans/services/civil-service-preference/ - Residency: All persons newly hired on or after September 1, 2011, have one year from the date of employment to establish, and then maintain principal residence in the State of New Jersey subject to the provisions of N.J.S.A. 52:14-7 (L.2011, Chapter 70), also known as the “New Jersey First Act”. - Authorization to Work: Selected candidates must be authorized to work in the United States per the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship, and Immigration Services regulations. NOTE: The State of New Jersey does not provide sponsorship for citizenship to the United States. - Equal Opportunity Employment: (boilerplate) remove. We need to remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. So we should remove the Equal Opportunity Employment paragraph. Also remove any application instructions like "Applicants who already filed for this posting need not reapply..."? That's not exactly instruction but maybe considered part of eligibility. It says "Applicants who already filed for this posting need not reapply, as previously submitted resumes will be taken into consideration for this position." That's not an instruction to apply but a note. Might keep? It's not boilerplate but maybe we keep as part of eligibility. However we might consider it as part of Scope of Eligibility. We'll keep. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Likely sections: About the role (maybe description), Responsibilities (the detailed duties), Requirements (the qualifications), Skills (Preferred Skill Set), Benefits (Employee Benefits), Pay (Salary), Schedule (Work Week). Also maybe Location? Not a standard heading but could be part of About the role. The instructions say use headings for those specific section names. We should not invent others. Thus we will produce:

About the role

maybe a paragraph summarizing the role? But we must preserve all substantive info; we cannot summarize away detail. However we can put the description in a

under About the role. The description includes the general description under limited supervision. That is substantive. We'll put that as a paragraph. Then

Responsibilities

with a

• list of duties from "Specific to the Position" bullet-like sentences. We need to extract each duty as list items. Then

  Requirements

  with the requirements text (including experience/education combos, notes about professional experience, degree accreditation, foreign degree evaluation, license note, SAME applicants note). We'll put as
  • maybe each requirement as list items. Then

    Skills

    for Preferred Skill Set. Then

    Benefits

    for Employee Benefits. Then

    Pay

    for Salary. Then

    Schedule

    for Work Week. We must not include sections with placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". We have actual values. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not needed. We must not include Job ID etc. We must not include boilerplate like EEO. We must preserve all substantive info: need to include Opening Date, Closing Date, Existing Vacancies, Program/Location, Scope of Eligibility note about previously filed applicants, etc. Where to put those? They could go under About the role as a paragraph. Or maybe we could add a separate section like "Details" but not allowed headings. So we incorporate them into About the role paragraph. Thus About the role paragraph will contain: Open to General Public, Work Week 35 Hours Per Week (up to 900 hours maximum per fiscal year), Salary $26 per hour, Opening Date 9/24/2026, Closing Date 10/15/2026, Existing Vacancies 1, Program/Location details, Scope of Eligibility note. We must not lose any info. Now let's craft. First, About the role paragraph: "Open to the general public. Position is 35 hours per week (up to 900 hours maximum per fiscal year). Salary is $26 per hour. Opening date: 9/24/2026; closing date: 10/15/2026. Existing vacancies: 1. Located in the Department of Environmental Protection, Legal Regulatory & Enforcement Policy, Office of Transactions and Public Land Administration, 401 East State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625. Scope of eligibility: open to applicants who meet the requirements below; applicants who have already filed for this posting need not reapply, as previously submitted resumes will be taken into consideration." That's a paragraph. Now Responsibilities: extract from "Specific to the Position" paragraph which is a long sentence with many tasks separated by commas and semicolons. We'll break into list items each distinct duty. Original: "Specific to the Position Reviews title commitments/reports/searches describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching and analyzing activities and eliminating those that do not affect the parcel(s) in question. Investigates and clarifies problem areas of a routine nature with respect to determination of real property ownership, title searches, Department jurisdiction, and property boundaries. Evaluates, analyzes, and examines records relating to documents found in a chain of title to determine the accuracy and legal effect of such instruments on the title in question; examines the records of proceedings affecting the title; and secures tax and assessment searches from the proper municipal officers. Examines documentation such as deeds, mortgages, and all instruments affecting such mortgages, contracts of sale and assignments, and leases and releases, postponements, subordination, discharges, releases and satisfactions; wills, probate and intestacy proceedings; letters testamentary and of an administration; certificates of tax sale; secured transactions; power of attorney; mechanics; liens, judgments, bonds to Sheriff, attachments and Federal liens; in order to verify factors such as properties' legal description, ownership, and restrictions. Advises the owners and attorneys of the condition of and/or defects in title, and assists, insofar as it is possible, in removing exceptions and defects of title so it will be acceptable to the State. Prepares deeds, release of mortgage, satisfactions of judgments, affidavits, and other instruments of conveyance, as needed, in accordance with the provisions of the agreement for acquisition of property by the State. Obtains all necessary data for the adjustment and reimbursement of property taxes at closing, as needed. Reviews title insurance policies to ensure appropriate endorsements have been issued and that only exceptions acceptable to the State remain; works with the State’s title agent(s) to resolve any issues/exceptions outstanding at the time of policy issuance" We'll split each sentence into list items. List items: - Reviews title commitments/reports/searches describing any title encumbrances encountered during searching and analyzing activities and eliminating those that do not affect the parcel(s) in question. - Investigates and clarifies problem areas of a routine nature with respect to determination of real property ownership, title searches, Department jurisdiction, and property boundaries. - Evaluates, analyzes, and examines records relating to documents found in a chain of title to determine the accuracy and legal effect of such instruments on the title in question; examines the records of proceedings affecting the title; and secures tax and assessment searches from the proper municipal officers. - Examines documentation such as deeds, mortgages, and all instruments affecting such mortgages, contracts of sale and assignments, and leases and releases, postponements, subordination, discharges, releases and satisfactions; wills, probate and intestacy proceedings; letters testamentary and of an administration; certificates of tax sale; secured transactions; power of attorney; mechanics; liens, judgments, bonds to Sheriff, attachments and Federal liens; in order to verify factors such as properties' legal description, ownership, and restrictions. - Advises the owners and attorneys of the condition of and/or defects in title, and assists, insofar as it is possible, in removing exceptions and defects of title so it will be acceptable to the State. - Prepares deeds, release of mortgage, satisfactions of judgments, affidavits, and other instruments of conveyance, as needed, in accordance with the provisions of the agreement for acquisition of property by the State. - Obtains all necessary data for the adjustment and reimbursement of property taxes at closing, as needed. - Reviews title insurance policies to ensure appropriate endorsements have been