What are the responsibilities and job description for the Construction Inspector II position at City of Norfolk?
Norfolk, Virginia is America's most authentic and urban waterfront city. Home to the world's largest naval station and the business, arts, and cultural center of Coastal Virginia, Norfolk has been rated a top place to live, work, play, and raise a family by numerous publications. Working for the City of Norfolk is an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of others. With our commitment to competitive pay and a strong retirement package, you can do good for your community and do well for yourself. Join a caring workplace that proudly celebrates uniqueness, authenticity, and a shared commitment to improving the lives of our residents.
Construction Inspector II ensures construction compliance with codes/specifications and checks for potential safety problems. Provides community relations and administrative duties. Inspects activities. Reviews and approves traffic control safety plans. Enforces state and local codes pertaining to right of way, work zone safety and erosion and sediment control. Performs other duties as required.
Ensures construction compliance with codes and checks for potential safety problems by reading and interpreting design drawings, preparing and reviewing drawings, conducting visual and physical inspections, examining and evaluating materials furnished and quality of workmanship, ensuring compliance with erosion and sediment control standards, rejecting components of work that does not follow plans and specifications, resolving problems, consulting with architects, engineers, developers, contractors and owners and providing technical knowledge. Provides community relations and administrative duties by responding to complaints and requests, providing information, conducting research, entering information into the computer, updating the database, reviewing emergency conditions and generating correspondence and various statistical and project status reports. Review traffic control plans for utility work in the right of way. Perform routine field investigations to ensure utility contractors maintain proper traffic control and work zone safety. - Meeting with contractors to review procedures and methods of construction.
- Inspect activities by going to pre-construction meetings, inspecting on-site, supervising plans and installation, coordinating with groups within and outside the city on projects, maintaining drawings and maintaining daily work log.
- Interpret City Codes pertaining to work in the right of way.
- Performs other duties by attending training, supervising and submitting contractor payments.
Required:
- Two years of experience.
- Valid Driver's License required.
Salary : $51,099 - $54,739