Chief Building Engineer

Job Title: Chief Building Official (CBO)

Position Overview:

Bureau Veritas is a global leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification services, helping clients to manage risk and enhance their performance in the fields of quality, health and safety, environment, and social responsibility.

Join our dynamic team as a Chief Building Official where you'll play a vital role in jurisdictional development and operations. A CBO will plan, organize and supervise building inspection, plan check, code enforcement, and public counter activities of a municipality; to recommend and implement policy concerning building safety and zoning matters; enforce and administer construction and safety codes; and to provide highly responsible and technical staff assistance.

This is a senior management level classification responsible for the management and operation of a Building Division and functions as the Chief Building Official for a municipality. Exercise significant independent judgment in the application and enforcement of building codes and ordinances within a jurisdiction and exercise initiative in ensuring that building codes used by the jurisdiction meet current legal and professional guidelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for all building-related activities.
• Manage a team of professionals involved in developing, interpreting, and implementing building codes and standards.
• Lead in the application, enforcement and interpretation of building codes, laws and ordinances.
• Participate in the development and implementation of jurisdictional goals, objectives, policies and priorities.
• Plan, organize, control, evaluate and improve the functions and activities assigned to the CBO of a jurisdiction.
• Review and update local municipal codes for model building and construction code adoption ordinances amending California codes per local requirements.
• Enforce all appropriate building, zoning and safety codes and ordinances.
• Resolve difficult and complex building and code compliance problems, meeting with developers, contractors, architects, engineers and homeowners.
• Appear before public agencies, business and civic groups and other organizations in the presentation and discussion of building and safety related problems, proposals, projects and policies.
• Prepare and administer the division budget as assigned by a jurisdiction.
• Maintain a high level of public relations, including positive and productive working relationships with department staff, the general public, other departments in the municipality, and adjacent jurisdictions.
• Supervise, train, and evaluate subordinate professional, technical and administrative support personnel.
• Interpret building codes and standards for internal and external stakeholders, including government officials, industry professionals, and the public.
• Perform assigned duties within the supported agency’s guidance, culture, and approach.
• Review new products, materials, and methods of construction.
• Respond to concerns and requests for information from the public.
• Participate in investigations of substandard buildings for rehabilitation, moving and/or demolition.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

To perform a job in this classification, an individual must be able to perform the essential duties as generally described in the specification. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties in a specific job. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

Knowledge of:

• Principles, practices and techniques of plan-check and Building Inspections.
• Federal, State, County and city laws, codes and ordinances relating to building construction.
• Modern methods of building construction as applied to building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and other related requirements.
• Acceptable health and safety standards in building construction.
• Principles and practices of organization, administration, budgeting and personnel management.

Ability to:

• Plan, organize and manage a citywide program of building and code enforcement activities.
• Interpret and explain codes, regulations and ordinances.
• Detect through inspection deviations from plans, codes, regulations, ordinances and specifications.
• Read and understand building construction plans and drawings, engineering and public works construction plans and specifications.
• Select, supervise, train and evaluate assigned staff.
• Communicate clearly, both orally and in writing.
• Analyze department policies and procedures; identify, recommend and implement improvements.
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
• Analyze problems, identify alternative solutions, project consequences of proposed actions, and implement recommendations in support of goals.
• Exercise good judgment, flexibility, creativity, and sensitivity in response to changing situations and needs.
• Work well under pressure to meet deadlines.

Experience and Education:

Any combination of experience and education that would provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

• Sufficient years of increasingly responsible experience of a supervisory, administrative or professional nature in the design, construction and inspection of public, commercial, industrial or residential buildings to demonstrate possession of the knowledge and abilities listed above.
• Equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major work in structural, mechanical, or civil engineering, architecture or a closely related field.
• Possession of a certification as a Certified Building Official issued by the International Code Council (ICC), or equivalent certification is required, or possession of a Certificate of Registration as a professional engineer or architect in the State of California.

Physical/Mental demand and environmental setting:

While performing the duties of this class, an employee is regularly required to sit, and move to access office equipment; and to communicate, in person and by telephone and email. An employee is frequently required to move within and between city facilities and other locations.

This is an at-will management classification.

Bureau Veritas North America Total Compensation:

At Bureau Veritas, we are dedicated to ensuring our employees receive fair and competitive pay, accompanied by comprehensive health and wellness benefits. The starting wage range commences at $50 per hour, subject to potential increases contingent upon factors such as experience, licenses, or certifications obtained.

Join us at Bureau Veritas, where your well-being and professional growth are our top priorities. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties in a specific job.

Join our team and make a difference in shaping the future of our community through safe and compliant building practices! Apply today to become a part of our dedicated team as a Chief Building Official.