Permit Technician

Are you wanting to help your community with your customer service experience?

The Community Development Department is hiring for the vital role of Permit Technician. This role serves as the first point of contact for land use, permits, and code compliance, assisting the public, customers, and contractors ensuring they understand the permitting process and assisting their projects meet the various requirements. An ideal candidate will have a professional approach to providing information on requirements, while providing great customer focused service.

• Excellent medical, vision and dental benefit package for the employee and qualified family members with low monthly out-of-pocket cost. Employee-paid premium is approximately $58 per month for employee-only coverage up to a maximum of $170 per month for family coverage.
• City-paid contribution to a VEBA Trust account for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses. Currently, the annual contribution is $1,000 for employee-only and $2,000 for employee plus dependent(s).
• Paid time off including:
  • 8 hours of vacation leave per month, with progressive increases
  • 8 hours of sick leave per month
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • 24 hours of floating holiday per year
• Excellent retirement benefits including:
  • City-paid participation in the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (OPSRP and City pays 6% IAP contribution)
  • City-paid 0.5% contribution into pre-tax deferred compensation plan
• In addition, other benefits such as job-related college tuition and book reimbursement, employee assistance program, basic life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and flexible spending accounts for healthcare and childcare expenses.

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Performs a variety of advanced duties in support of the receipt, processing, and recordkeeping functions of the Community Development and Public Works permit counter; provides information and assistance to customers in applying for and obtaining City development permits; issues a variety of permits; monitors the permit review process by routing applications and plans and tracking applications through the approval process; ensures timely processing of application requests;

provides essential functions for the department’s compliance program and assists with provided guidance on resolution with compliance cases ; and performs related work as required.

The duties listed are intended only as illustrative examples of the various types of work that may be performed by individuals in this classification. Any of the following duties may be performed. These examples are not necessarily performed by all incumbents and do not include all specific essential functions and responsibilities the incumbent may be expected to perform.