Code Enforcement Officer - Neighborhood Services

Overview

The City of Colorado Springs is ready to welcome a Code Enforcement Officer to join its Neighborhood Services team. As a Code Enforcement Officer, you will conduct field inspections, investigate complaints, and enforce property maintenance, housing, and environmental safety ordinances. This role also manages a large caseload, maintains extensive public contact, and documents activities in logs and digital case systems. Key responsibilities include issuing summonses, providing court testimony, removing unpermitted signs, interpreting and applying codes, and communicating effectively across multiple channels.

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• PERA Retirement
• Paid Time Off:
  Vacation, Sick, and Holidays
• Employee Medical Clinic and Pharmacy
• Wellness Programs, Fitness Classes and Gym Discounts
• Medical Management Programs
• Basic & Voluntary Life Insurance
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Long Term Care
• HRA and Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care
• Read more about our many benefits /total rewards

The background check process for this position includes being fingerprinted. Fingerprints will be used to check the FBI's criminal history records.

Job Type: Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Work Schedule: This is primarily a day shift position;
Monday - Friday, with hours between 7:00AM - 5:30PM. This position requires that you are available for emergency call-out when needed.

Hourly Salary: 26.19 - 31.44

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Your starting pay will be within the posted hiring range based on your years of experience and education. As an employee with the City of Colorado Springs, there is room to grow! View the 2026 Salary

Schedule:

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• Investigate complaints, meet with citizens, and enforce codes related to housing standards, environmental health, vehicle and vegetation abatement, and zoning ordinances
• Issue condemnation orders
• Intervene and mediate to resolve potential conflicts regarding citations or code violations
• Inspect homes, apartment buildings, businesses, vacant lots, and other properties to ensure compliance with housing standards, zoning and environmental health codes, ordinances, and regulations; determine whether properties are in compliance
• Issue notices of violation and perform follow-up inspections
• Document all actions and notices
• Testify in court and at administrative proceedings
• Respond in a courteous manner to public inquiries and complaints about code violations such as minimum housing standards, sanitation, weeds, junk vehicles, litter, land use/zoning, and graffiti
• Interview complainants and witnesses
• Take photographs of violations and document activities using a computer; effectively and accurately convey observations
• Perform research to determine ownership and approved uses of property
• Work within neighborhoods to interdict signs of neighborhood decline and blight
• Foster community involvement with neighborhoods and organizations
• Learn more about this job by reviewing the class specification on the City of Colorado Springs Class Specifications page

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

Knowledge of:

• Operations, services, and activities of a code enforcement program
• Principles, practices, methods, and techniques of technical inspection and code enforcement
• Methods and techniques of investigating property ownership
• Pertinent state and local ordinances, regulations, and health codes

Ability to:

• Interpret and apply pertinent state and local ordinances, regulations, and health codes
• Make independent judgements
• Use noise and light meters, police radios, and mobile field reporting equipment
• Communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office Suite and case management software

• Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade (high school diploma or GED)
• One year of full-time, professional experience in a related field
• Possess, or obtain upon hire, and maintain a valid, non-probationary Colorado driver’s license not subject to restrictions

Substitutions: We value a diverse range of qualifications and experiences. Our organization views each year of further education as equivalent to each year of relevant work experience, and each year of additional relevant work experience as equivalent to each year of required education.

We encourage all to apply!

The following qualifications are not required, but they are considered desirable. If you possess any of the preferred qualifications, please include specific details in your application. This information may be used to identify a top group of applicants.

• Experience with investigations, inspections, and enforcement

Please contact Jamie Garcia cia or  for any questions about this position.

Physical Demands: Exerting up to 50 lbs. occasionally; 20 lbs. frequently; or negligible amounts constantly; OR requires walking or standing to a significant degree

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