Building Inspector - Structural PT

Description

ABOUT OUR CITY

The City of Sunrise is more than a workplace — it’s a community built on our Three Pillars: Customer Service, Collaboration, and Transparency. We’re committed to creating an environment where innovation thrives, teamwork is celebrated, and every employee has the opportunity to grow and make a lasting impact.

As a full-service municipality and one of South Florida’s premier cities, Sunrise offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, professional development opportunities, and a strong culture of recognition. Whether you’re helping residents, shaping policy, or improving city operations, you’ll be part of a team that’s passionate about service excellence and community pride.

We take pride in being home to the back-to-back NHL Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers, a vibrant arts and entertainment district, and a diverse community that truly embodies what it means to Live, Work, and Play in Sunrise.

Effective January 2026, the City is has launched an Alternative Work Schedule designed to further support employee work-life balance — providing eligible staff with two three-day weekends per month through an every-other-Friday-off model. This initiative reflects our continued focus on flexibility and employee well-being.

Examples of Duties

• Perform field inspections of all aspects of construction that fall under the structural discipline defined in the FBC during the process of construction and upon completion of work for conformance with approved building permit plans, the Florida Building Code, and City of Sunrise Ordinances that are directly related to building construction.
• Issue correction notices for non-conformance with approved plans and to re-inspect work when deficiencies have been corrected.
• Enter the status of each inspection in the computer after each inspection has been performed.
• Consult with developers, architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and tenants.
• Investigate complaints received regarding alleged code violations, determine the validity of the complaints and take appropriate action.
• Post properties and testify at Special Magistrate hearings.
• Retain licenses and certifications that are required for this position through mandatory continuing education classes.
• Perform other related work as required.

Requirements

EDUCATION 

• Graduation from an accredited high school or possession of a GED equivalency diploma
• PROOF OF THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF COMPLETED EDUCATION MUST BE SUBMITTED AS AN ATTACHMENT WITH APPLICATION. (Applications without attached proof of education will not be processed for consideration.) 

LICENSES and EXPERIENCE
 
To be eligible for appointment as a Structural Inspector, such person shall meet the requirements below:

• Meet one of the following:
  • Possess a current license as a Certified General Contractor or Certified Building Contractor with at least five (5) years of experience within the State of Florida in the structural discipline with that license of which, two years shall have been within the High Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) or by passing the Board of Rules and Appeals (BORA) HVHZ exam. An applicant who is a graduate from an accredited school holding a Bachelor or an Associate of Science in Engineering, Architecture, or Building Construction may be credited for two (2) years for a Bachelor Degree or one (1) year for an Associate Degree towards the required five (5) years of experience within the State of Florida in the structural discipline as outlined below. 

• Possess a current Certificate of Competency or a Professional Engineer license or Architect registration issued by at least one of the following entities:
  • Florida Construction Industry Licensing Board.
  • Broward County Central Examining Board of Building Construction Trades.
  • Miami-Dade County Construction Trades Qualifying Board.
  • Florida Board of Professional Engineers.
  • Department of Business and Professional Regulations as an Architect.
• Possess a current active license issued by the State of Florida, Building Code and Administrators and Inspectors Board (BCAIB) as a Standard Building Inspector. (Architects and Engineers are exempt from BCAIB certification only.)
• Possess or be eligible to obtain a current certification as a Structural Inspector issued by BORA.
• Florida Residents: Must possess a valid Florida driver's license with an acceptable driving record.
• Non-Florida Residents: Must possess a valid driver’s license with an acceptable driving record AND obtain a valid Florida driver’s license prior to hire.
• Structural Building Inspectors shall be required to obtain a Reinforced Unit Masonry certification within two (2) years from their initial BORA certification date.
• All required certifications and licenses must be kept current to continue employment in this position. 

LICENSES and EXPERIENCE: (Trainees Only)

To be eligible for appointment as a Structural Inspector (Trainee), such person shall meet the requirements below:

• Meet one of the following:
  • Possess a current license as a Certified General Contractor or Certified Building Contractor with at least five (5) years of experience within the State of Florida in the structural discipline with that license of which, two years shall have been within the HVHZ or by-passing BORA’s HVHZ exam. An applicant who is a graduate from an accredited school holding a Bachelor or an Associate of Science in Engineering, Architecture, or Building Construction may be credited for two (2) years for a Bachelor Degree or one (1) year for an Associate Degree towards the required five (5) years of experience within the State of Florida in the structural discipline as outlined below.

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  • Must obtain a 120-Day Temporary Provisional certification as a Structural Inspector from BORA within ninety (90) days from date of employment.
  • Must obtain a Provisional Building Inspector certificate of licensure from the State of Florida (BCAIB) within one hundred and twenty (120) days of employment/promotion. (Architects and Engineers are exempt from BCAIB certification only.)
  • Must obtain a Provisional certification as a Structural Inspector from BORA within one hundred and twenty (120) days from date of employment.
  • Must obtain a Standard Building Inspector license from the State of Florida (BCAIB) within twenty-four (24) months from the date of employment.
  • Must obtain a Standard Structural Inspector certification from BORA within twenty-four (24) months from the date of employment.
  • The City will reimburse application fees for the required licenses and certifications upon successful acquisition of all required certification/license.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Work Environment:
 

• Work is performed mostly in the field conducting indoor and outdoor inspections of new construction, additions, and alterations of residential and commercial structures.
• The duties of this position entail physically demanding work; often outdoors in all weather conditions, and involves frequent travel to many different job sites during each workday.

 
Physical:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use repetitive motions of the wrists, hands and/or fingers, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls, and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to occasionally require to sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp and talk or hear.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, raising objects from lower to higher positions or moving horizontally from position-to-position.
• Ability to climb ladders and stairs requiring agility and moderate physical exertion.
• Physical capability to effectively use and operate City assigned vehicles.

Sensory:

• Must have the use of sensory skills in order to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through personal contact, the use of the telephone and/or other City issued technology devices.
• Ability to hear within normal audio range, with or without correction.
• Ability to see in the normal visual range with or without correction.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Supplemental Information

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Thorough knowledge of required structural inspections, procedures and practices. 
• Thorough knowledge of the materials, and methods and practices of construction used in the high velocity hurricane zone (HVHZ) areas of Florida.
• Thorough knowledge of the Florida Building Code and other regulations governing work that falls under the structural discipline in Broward County.
• Ability to read and interpret construction documents, product approvals, plans, and recognize deviations from such plans in the construction and installation processes.
• Ability to enforce code regulations firmly, tactfully, and impartially.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to prepare clear and concise written reports. 
• Ability to manage multiple, high-priority assignments.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with supervisors, co-workers, other City employees as well as with developers, architects, engineers, contractors, owners, and tenants.
• Ability to provide the best customer service possible at all times.

The description of benefits for which, an employee may be eligible have been generally summarized in this information sheet for your convenience; however, you must refer to all applicable City ordinances, collective bargaining agreements and/or plan documents for specific terms and conditions.  These benefits may be affected by future changes in policy, collective bargaining, City ordinances and/or legislative actions.  The City reserves the right to increase, modify, decreaseor eliminate benefits at any time.  No benefit is created or maintained simply based on this document, and its contents do not give rise to any contractual rights related to continuing employment or receipt of benefits between the City of Sunrise and its employees.  The information contained herein supersedes any prior benefit sheet(s).

The City of Sunrise is an economic powerhouse in western Broward County encompassing more than 18 square miles. As the host of Sawgrass International Corporate Park – the largest business park in South Florida – Sunrise has its own flourishing job market and currently employs approximately 1,100 employees and numbers continue to rise.
The City takes a very active role in business development, recruitment and prides itself on creating job opportunities for its residents. There are very few communities of similar size that welcome the tens of millions of visitors that we do here in Sunrise, or that can boast the magnitude of regional assets found in our City.
Our City shines and we understand in order to shine brighter; we must continue to recognize our employees as one of our most valuable assets. The City of Sunrise takes great pride in recruiting future employees and developing and retaining current ones by offering our comprehensive compensation and benefits package throughout an employee’s career.

Paid Time Off
1) PTO = Paid Time Off
o At the department’s discretion and approval, regular part-time employees may use PTO.
o PTO may be used for sick or vacation time-off requests.

2) Employee must work a full fiscal quarter before they are eligible for any PTO:

Fiscal Year Quarters            Applicable Months
1st Quarter                              January - March
2nd Quarter                            April - June
3rd Quarter                             July – September
4th Quarter                             October – December

3) PTO earned per fiscal quarter will be earned in accordance with the following accrual table:

Bi-Weekly Average Hours Worked             PTO Earned
                       8 to 13.99                                   2 hours
                       14.00 to 26.99                           4 hours
                       27.00 to 39.99                           6 hours
                       40.00 +                                       8 hours
*Maximum PTO that may be earned in a fiscal quarter is 8 hours (Total of 32 max hours per year)

4) PTO earned will be calculated and posted to employee’s leave accruals on the month following the end of the fiscal quarter.
o Calculation will be based on check dates within a fiscal quarter.

5) Employees may use PTO in four (4) hour increments only.

6) PTO must be requested the business day before requested time off.

7) Employees must use PTO earned in a fiscal year by the end of the following fiscal year or accrued time will be forfeited.

8) There will be no payouts upon separation of service and no cash outs of accumulated time.

9) Any PTO used within a fiscal quarter will not count as time worked for future calculations of any benefit.

10) PTO balances will not transfer with the employee if they go to full-time status.
o Employees that transfer to full-time status are treated as new hires.
o Regular part-time employees will have the ability to request time off in Kronos.
o Regular part-time employees in the Police or Fire Rescue departments will have the ability to request time off in Telestaff.

11) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.

12) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive PTO.

HOLIDAYS
1) Part-time employees are eligible to earn 4 hours of holiday pay for each official City-observed holiday.
o Currently ten (10) City holidays (4) hours of paid Holidays for a total of 40 hours per year).
o Employees receive four (4) hours of Holiday pay regardless of how many hours they work.
o No look-back period would be applicable.
2) If employee works on a City holiday, the employee will get paid for the actual hours worked plus receive four (4) hours of holiday pay.
3) If an employee is scheduled to work on a City holiday and calls out or fails to show up for work, the employee will not be eligible to receive holiday pay.
4) Holiday pay does not count as time worked.
5) A new PTO code has been set-up in Tyler Munis for payroll processing.
6) Seasonal staff and interns are not eligible to receive holiday pay.