What are the responsibilities and job description for the Building Commissioner position at Town of Plainfield?
The Building Commissioner is the Director of the Building Department and is responsible for the supervision of the department’s personnel, performance, and operations activities. This includes work functions associated with plan review, permitting, and inspection of construction plans and buildings to ensure compliance with applicable codes while communicating with developers, engineers, contractors, builders and homeowners.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:
- Administers, interprets and enforces the provisions of applicable federal, state and local building codes or related codes and makes recommendations and/or initiates the actions necessary to correct or amend Town ordinances and policies
- Performs and delegates residential, commercial, and industrial plan review and analyzes the building construction drawings for compliance to ensure consistent and appropriate interpretation of the applicable building codes and ordinances
- Creates and directs the multiple-discipline building inspection process and other construction-related assignments conducted on residential, commercial, and industrial buildings for conformance with applicable codes, established specifications, and details, and related systems
- Performs and delegates site inspections of commercial construction work, buildings and related systems for conformance with applicable codes, established specifications and releases the construction plans and drawings of all new construction and remodeling projects
- Meets with architects, engineers, contractors and property owners regarding pre-construction requirements.
- Develops and implements goals, objectives, policies, and priorities for Building Department
- Selects, trains, motivates, manages, and evaluates division personnel
- Prepares reports and maintains records of the department’s activities within digital systems and periodically assesses and improves systems.
- Responds to complaints and questions related to building code issues; researches and provides information and education to initiate problem resolution.
- Completes administrative duties including creating monthly and yearly reports, developing and managing the division's budget, attending meetings, reviewing statistics, approving departmental payroll, PTO, and approving invoices
- Maintains an effective communication process with the Development Services Executive Director, Town’s Administration, and all the Division Directors
- Ensures all Building Division related capital assets are maintained and accounted for
- Assists with the coordination, preparation, and presentation of an annual budget for the Development Service Department and directs the implementation of the overall building department budget
- Reviews and presents amendments to the Department fee schedule as needed
- Administers, manages, and enforces the floodplain ordinance