Compliance Maintenance Specialist R19618

About the Position

Sarasota County is recruiting for a Compliance Maintenance Specialist II in our beautiful Beaches. This role leads small to large projects involving one or more crews and monitors contractor services. Typical duties include scheduling, coordinating, reviewing, inspecting, tree trimming, and other vegetation landscaping tasks. The goal is to ensure private and public projects comply with federal, state, and local regulations, statutes, and County ordinances.

• Inspect the work performed by vendors and ensure quality and completeness based on schedules and performance standards.
• Assist the Contract Manager with daily direction and setting expectations of duties.
• Prepare and maintain inspection documentation.
• Document and report vendor performances utilizing a work management system and advise the contract manager of deficiencies with recommendations for corrective actions.
• Assist with verification that payment requests match the work satisfactorily completed in a billing period.
• Monitor safety requirements.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with vendors, customers, and co-workers.
• Meet with customers and vendors to clarify and resolve work‑related challenges and requests when approved by the contract manager.
• Provide input and feedback on contract development initiatives.

• Utilize small engine equipment to provide necessary support to department goals and assignments.
• Submit work orders as needed.
• Perform line‑of‑sight and overgrowth clearance.
• Use string trimmer, edger, pressure washer, leaf blowers, chainsaw, and various electric and hand tools.
• Maintain small engine equipment.
• Trim trees and shrubs.
• Plant trees, grass, and/or shrubs in beds and/or open areas.
• Use herbicides with invasive plant and landscape bed management.

• Full‑time, 40 hours per week.
• Normal
  
  Schedule:
  
  Monday – Friday, 7:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
• Schedules may vary due to split shifts, rotations, emergencies, etc.
• Evenings, holidays, and/or weekend hours may occasionally be required.

• High School Diploma or its equivalent.
• Three (3) years or more of experience in construction/landscape maintenance, contract‑applicable construction trades, or in a field providing technical supervisory services to construction/landscape maintenance contractors.
• College or university‑level training in an appropriate field may be substituted on a year‑for‑year basis for the required experience.
• Valid Florida Driver's License by date of hire.
• Florida Pesticide Applicator license, with endorsements in Limited Lawn & Ornamental (LLO), within six (6) months from the date of hire. (We can help with this!)

May occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.

This position requires passing a pre‑employment substance screening. An applicant who fails the drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment for five (5) years.

$21.85 per hour.