Chief Building Official

The Chief Building Official helps shape the Town of Bluffton's continued growth by ensuring that residential, commercial, and industrial development meets Town and state building code requirements for safety, quality, and compliance. This role provides leadership and oversight for seven direct reports involved in building inspections across residential, commercial, industrial, and other development projects, ensuring compliance throughout the construction process and beyond.

The position is responsible for managing timely plan reviews and inspections, interpreting and applying complex code requirements, providing technical guidance to contractors, developers, and the public, and performing a variety of administrative and technical duties that support the Town's continued growth and development.

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• Serves as Chief Building Official; ensures compliance with all applicable Town policies and procedures, and other laws, regulations, codes, and ordinances.
• Administer and enforce South Carolina, Town of Bluffton building code, applicable local ordinances, and other construction regulations.
• Conducts commercial plan reviews; communicates with architects, engineers, contractors, and owners throughout the process of planning, correcting, and issuing the permit.
• Supervises and manages division employees including building inspectors, plan reviewers, and administrative staff.
• Oversees inspections of residential and commercial properties for compliance with building codes and safety standards.
• Evaluates and makes recommendations for changes in the Town’s ordinances related to building inspections, permitting, and any other building safety related ordinance changes.
• Interprets building codes and regulations.
• Meets with contractors and design professionals to coordinate plan review, inspections, and permitting activities.
• Receives and responds to technical inquiries regarding building codes, permitting, and safety compliance; acts as a subject matter expert for the public and building community.
• Attends training, conferences, seminars, meetings, etc., to maintain awareness of current legislation, trends, and technology in the building inspection and plan review field.
• Receives, reviews, and approves construction/architectural plans, site inspection reports, correspondence, permit applications, etc.
• Ensures timely and accurate issuance of certificates of occupancy; ordinances; plan review reports; inspection reports; citations; performance appraisals; and related division records.
• Collaborates with the immediate supervisor, Town Departments and outside design professionals to resolve complex technical building issues.
• Directs and leads inspectors during damage assessment procedures.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.
• May be required to perform inspections.
• This position is considered essential and would be required to stay behind in an evacuation (i.e hurricanes).

• Bachelor’s degree in architecture, structural engineering, building, construction management, building science, or a related field; and five to seven (5-7) years of work experience as a building inspector or in the general construction field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Valid South Carolina driver’s license (or obtain one by time of hire). Hold (or obtain within 12 months of hire) a Building Official Certification (International Code Council) and maintain required number of CEU’s as directed by the State of South Carolina to remain certified as a Building Official. Must have all 8 ICC Certifications to be fully certified in both Commercial and Residential Inspections, and the…