Environmental Quality Inspector – Auto

The purpose of this position is to assist Environmental Specialists within the City of Grand Prairie with program inspections, complaints, investigations, and administrative duties. This is accomplished by responding to nuisance complaints, determining solid waste status, assisting with inspections, and investigating discrepancies in regulatory documents. Other duties include completing administrative duties.

Essential Job Functions

• Respond to routine complaints called in by residents or other city employees.
• Determine status of building permits/certificates of occupancy based on solid waste verifications.
• Conducts industrial surveys to include research, web reviews, and some inspections.
• Completes administrative duties by researching information on property owners; notifying property owners of violations; assisting other departments and co-workers with information.
• Reviews irregular backflow reports for issues with test results, serial numbers, location, and different devices and resolves issues with report, tester, or owner.
• Conducts annual site reviews for SPCC plans, inspects city facility petroleum storage tanks to determine compliance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with a two year associate’s degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school.
• 2-4 years of program inspections, complaints, investigations, and administrative duties.
• Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License, Backflow Tester Certification, 40 hour HAZWOPER within 12 months.

Additional Information

• Ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, and thesauruses. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• Ability to deal with system of real numbers; practical application of fractions, percentages, ratios/proportions and measurement. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• Ability to write reports, prepare business letters, expositions, and summaries with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college. However, it may be obtained from experience and self-study.
• The employee normally performs the duty assignment according to his or her own judgment, requesting supervisory assistance only when necessary. The assignment may be reviewed upon completion. Performance is reviewed periodically.
• Work requires functioning as a lead worker performing essentially the same work as those directed, and includes overseeing work quality, training, instructing, and scheduling work.
• Work is governed by broad instructions, objectives and policies. Requires the exercise of considerable initiative and independent analytical and evaluative judgment.
• Persuasion Very Frequent: More than 51% of work time

The City offers a full range of benefits for full time employees, including, but not limited to the plans as defined in the Benefits Guide. Summary of Benefits

Closing Date/Time: 1/31/2025 5:00 PM Central