SENIOR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

About the role

This position provides technical and functional direction to lower-level staff and performs a variety of routine to complex technical and public contact duties related to the City's code compliance program.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical and functional direction to assigned staff; reviews and controls quality of work; participates in performing complex code compliance duties.
• Plans, schedules, prioritizes, and assigns code compliance activities in consultation with the Code Compliance Manager; communicates status of code compliance inspections and abatement procedures to appropriate staff, working cooperatively to schedule activities in accordance with established priorities.
• Trains employees in work principles, practices, methods, policies, procedures, and applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, codes, and regulations.
• Assists in the implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures, and work standards including recommending improvements; assists in developing work plans, procedures, and schedules.
• Receives, records, and investigates complaints from the public and staff regarding violations of municipal, building, and zoning codes, ordinances, housing standards, and health and safety regulations; documents violations by securing photographs and other pertinent data; researches ownership records, prior complaints, municipal codes and ordinances, and State regulations to establish whether a violation has occurred.
• Initiates contacts with residents, business representatives, and other parties to explain the nature of incurred violations and to encourage compliance with municipal codes, ordinances, and community standards; initiates abatement of dangerous properties and vector control issues of vacant properties; provides confirmation to public by telephone and in person regarding code regulations.
• Prepares and issues notices of violation or noncompliance, final notices, and misdemeanor and parking citations and other correspondence according to applicable codes and regulations; issues letters to property owners notifying them of violation; as appropriate, affixes notices of violation on properties to abate fire and public safety hazards and public nuisances.
• Maintains files, databases, and records related to citations and violations; prepares a variety of written reports, memoranda, and correspondence.

Requirements

Management reserves the rights to add, modify, change, or rescind the work assignments of different positions and to make reasonable accommodations where appropriate so that qualified employees can perform the essential functions of the job.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of basic principles of supervision and training.
• Principles, practices, methods, and techniques of code violation investigation and compliance.
• Methods and procedures used in code compliance including citation issuance procedures, methods used to obtain various types of inspection warrants, and principles used to prepare legal documents.
• Practices for documenting inspections, correcting violations, and carrying through on court procedures.
• Basic requirements of zoning and related codes, ordinances, and regulations.
• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, codes, and regulations and administrative and departmental policies.
• Legal descriptions and boundary maps of real property and legal terminology as used in code compliance.
• Occupational hazards and standard safety practices necessary in the area of code compliance.
• Research and reporting methods, techniques, and procedures.
• Principles and procedures of record keeping, technical report writing and preparation of correspondence and presentations.
• Safety equipment and practices related to the work, including safe driving rules and practices.
• Modern office practices, methods, and computer equipment and applications related to the work.
• English usage, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation.
• Tactics for effectively representing the City in contacts with governmental agencies, community groups, various business, professional, educational, and regulatory organizations and with property owners, developers, contractors, and the public.
• Tactics for providing a high level of customer service by effectively dealing with the public, vendors, contractors and City staff.

Skills

Employees must possess the ability to lift, carry, push, and pull materials and objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

The City of Coachella offers an excellent benefits program for full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retirement plan through CalPERS.