PLANS EXAMINER - ENGINEERING

Salary : $50,315.20 - $75,192.00 Annually

Location : Fayetteville, AR

Job Type : Full Time

Job Number : 02753

Department : ENGINEERING (621)

Opening Date : 02 / 20 / 2025

The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.

Essential Job Duties

Safety / Security Sensitive Designation :

This is a safety / security sensitive position for purposes of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.

• Provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members of their own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive.
• Review construction plans, subdivision plats, property line adjustments, lots splits, rezonings and other submittals for conformance with standards, ordinances and other City requirements. Coordinate reviews with other departments, utility companies and other agencies. Attend regular development review meetings and communicate plan review comments to customers.
• Review residential and commercial building permits for conformance with applicable City standards and ordinances. Provide comments to applicants and approve / deny the permit from engineering review.
• Determine the applicability of the City's Green Stormwater Practices (GSP) for residential and commercial building permits.
• Correspond and meet as required with architects, engineers, contractors, and owners during planning, design, and construction of single-family and two-family projects concerning minimum code, related city ordinances, and applicable state law requirements.
• Evaluate and provide final determination of sidewalk construction versus payment of money-in-lieu of construction for all new single and two family residential development.
• Perform site inspections for residential and commercial building permits to ensure compliance with city standards and ordinances, including but not limited to erosion control compliance, sidewalk and driveway construction, GSP installation, and Engineering's occupancy sign-off.
• Perform monthly stormwater pollution prevention plan inspections for construction projects that require a Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ) stormwater permit.
• Serve as a citizen contact for questions involving sidewalks, driveway approaches, access ramps and ADA requirements within the City right-of-way.
• Determine the percentage of sidewalk completion for subdivisions for the purpose of the public infrastructure guarantees.
• Assist engineers, contractors, builders, governmental agencies and others with requests for design criteria and standards, construction details and City requirements.
• Assist with special projects as assigned. Draft updates to City Code and / or City standards and manuals. Prepare Master Plan Updates for transportation, sidewalks, and drainage programs.
• Evaluate reports of code violations related to grading, drainage and / or sidewalks for one to two family residential construction. Coordinate with supervisor to issue Notice of Violation when necessary.
• Attend biweekly staff meetings and other meetings with engineers, surveyors and land agents as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Secondary Job Duties

Minimum Qualifications

The City of Fayetteville is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Full Time, 40 or more hours per week, non uniformed employee. Eligible for all City benefits offered to full time non uniformed employees and all full time City accruals of paid leave. Please click this link for more details on City employee benefits :

www.fayetteville-ar.gov / 654 / Employee-Benefits-Information

This position requires the candidate to possess a High School Diploma or GED and four years of related experience.Do you meet these requirements?

If you answered yes to the previous question, please give a detailed description of the related experience you have and the length of time for this experience.

To qualify for this position, a candidate must possess a valid Driver's License.Do you meet this requirement?

The candidate must have detailed knowledge of Americans with Disabilities Act requirements in regard to construction / accessibility and their applications to City government.Do you meet this requirement?

The candidate must have the ability to read and interpret construction plans and specifications.Please describe relevant experience you have, work related or other, in which you've utilized the above types of skills.

The candidate must have the ability to read and interpret City standards and ordinances related to the performance of job duties. Please describe in detail your experience in reading and interpreting these types of documents.

The candidate must have the ability to effectively communicate with others orally and in writing.If selected, would you be able to meet these communication requirements?

This position requires the ability to use mathematics involving the practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios and proportions, possess ability to calculate figures and amounts such as area, circumference, and slope. Do you meet these requirements?

The candidate must be proficient in the use of a computer and software programs such PDF plan review, word processing and spreadsheet applications. Must have the ability to become proficient in the City's permitting software application.Do you meet these requirements?

Please give a brief description of the software programs your are familiar with and have experience in using.

The candidate must be able to effectively operate standard office equipment (i.e., scanner, printer, fax, copier, etc.).Do you meet this requirement?

The employee is regularly required to travel to job sites; use arms, hands, and fingers to handle, and feel; reach with hands and arms; sit, stand, walk, climb and balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 15 pounds. If selected, would you be able to meet these requirements?

Employee will regularly be exposed to outside weather conditions, traffic hazards, heavy construction equipment and uneven terrain. Employee will occasionally be exposed to fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and risk of vibration. The noise level on construction sites is usually loud.Would you be able to work in these conditions?

Please feel free to use the space below to describe any additional skills, education, or other traits you possess which you believe qualify you for this position.

Required Question

Salary : $50,315 - $75,192