Pay Range: $51,308 - $64,135 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 7:30am – 4:30pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities, and much more.
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability.
A Gas Wells Plans Examiner job is available with the City of Fort Worth Development Services Department Gas Wells Division. The Development Services Department seeks to make Fort Worth the most livable city in Texas by promoting orderly growth and development, safe construction and neighborhood vitality. The Gas Wells division helps complete this mission by performing a variety of technical duties in reviewing, approving and processing Infrastructure and Pre-Development plans, permits and platting requirements, review incoming applications for gas wells and pipelines in an efficient and timely manner and performing inspection related duties.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline with a background in gas exploration, drilling, and production.
- Two (2) years of increasingly responsible experience in gas well exploration, drilling, and production, five years of public administration or urban development experience, office administration, or related field and two years of clerical and administrative experience, plans examination and forestry experience or related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Two (2) years increasingly responsible experience with GIS.
- Five (5) years of public administration or urban development experience, office administration, or related field.
- Two (2) years of clerical and administrative experience, plans examination and forestry experience or related field.
- Plans examination experience.
- Zoning requirement experience.
- Fire Code experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- ArcGIS, Accela and Adobe Creative Suite.
- Bilingual skills.
- Gas Well Ordinance knowledge.
- Experience in facilitating and reviewing site plans.
The Gas Well Plans Examiner job responsibilities include:
- Interpreting regulations, laws and ordinances for purposes of plans examination within established departmental guidelines.
- Provides administrative assistance to staff by preparing documents, scheduling meetings, and screening clients and phone calls. Maintains appointment calendars. Prepares travel documents, employee travel reimbursement requests and conference registrations.
- Attends, records, and composes minutes of various commissions and board meetings. May serve as notary for assigned department.
- Acts as technical expert regarding gas wells on miscellaneous projects; reviews and advises on gas well equipment setbacks; and attends special meetings with developers regarding construction near gas wells.
- Provides assistance with drawings, applications, calculations and codes to the general and building contractors, architects, engineers and the general public.
- Reviews site plans for conformance to regulations of the Zoning and Gas Wells Ordinances, including setbacks, landscaping, parking, height, and other specific site or building layouts as required.
- Reviews applications for pipeline projects crossing City rights-of-way; authors and reviews Mayor and Council Communications; confirms agreement and payment from operator; oversees document routing for signatures; and distributes to appropriate parties.
- Revises or amends original plans as necessary and provides follow up correspondence with the owner or contact person.
- Enters all plans examination and application data into computer system. Updates and retrieves data to determine status of application and issues permits.
- Performs other duties as required.
Working Conditions
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting.
Physical Demand
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking, repetitive motions, climbing, balancing, pushing, pulling and lifting.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.