Codes Enforcement Officer

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Responsible for enforcing City of Las Cruces ordinances, codes, and regulations throughout the community and increasing public awareness of the importance for compliance to ensure a safe, sanitary, and clean community environment.

Works ninety (90) percent outdoors exposed to all traffic and weather conditions, dust, noises, uneven surfaces, mists, odors, and gases. Hazards include animal attacks, traffic accidents, and mechanical and electrical elements. Protective gear includes helmet, gloves, glasses, and bicycle training for officers using bicycles.

Environmental Factors:
Works ninety (90) percent outdoors exposed to all traffic and weather conditions, dust, noises, uneven surfaces, mists, odors, and gases. Hazards include animal attacks, traffic accidents, and mechanical and electrical elements. Protective gear includes helmet, gloves, glasses, and bicycle training for officers using bicycles.

Physical Factors:
Moderately physical position including the ability to occasionally lift and carry fifty (50) pound from the floor to waist height, and to move throughout the City using a motor vehicle or bicycle. Frequently lifting less than ten (10) pounds throughout the day. Sufficient clarity of speech, hearing, vision, manual dexterity, and personal mobility and physical reflexes sufficient to effectively and efficiently perform essential job functions.

Constant alertness is required to remain cautious and safe moving through City streets on a bicycle.

Work Situation Factors:
Requires competing demands such as strict deadlines, multiple tasks and occasional work beyond normal business hours. Occasional interaction with irate citizens. Regular attendance is an essential function of this job to ensure continuity of services. Position is subject to drug testing in accordance with applicable State and Federal regulations and City of Las Cruces policy.

• Interpret, explain, and enforce City ordinance provisions related to numerals on structures, illegal placement of fliers and notices on occupied and private property, weeds, trash, littering and junk, abandoned materials and inoperable vehicles, unsafe structures, traffic and sidewalk obstructions, water conservation, and the Clean Indoor Air Act.
• Travel throughout the City using a City motor vehicle or bicycle to identify potential code compliance problems.
• Respond to resident complaints and inquiries and conduct inspections to determine if complaints are valid and warrant further action.
• Document violations and make personal contact with owners/occupants; send letters of violations and direct owners/occupants to comply.
• Monitor construction sites relative to code compliance, landscaping, parking, setbacks, accessibility, zoning district sign code, and building without required permits.
• Assist with monitoring the licensing of businesses, home occupations, and itinerant merchants.
• Generate reports documenting violations; summon violators into Municipal Court by initiating a criminal complaint or issuing a criminal citation; present cases in Municipal Court, acting as own attorney.
• Conduct proactive inspections and special projects; provide education on code enforcement through newsletters and neighborhood meetings; prepare and present various special and recurring reports.
• Assist the Las Cruces Police Department within delegated scope and responsibility.
• Research information from the County Assessor to place liens on personal property to obtain compliance when abating a violation.

Equivalent to a high school diploma and three (3) years of experience in Codes Enforcement, Law Enforcement, or an Environmental Field with specialized work experience in Public Safety Investigations, Municipal Zoning, or Environmental Code Enforcement. A combination of education, experience, and training may be applied in accordance with City of Las Cruces policy.

Valid driver's license is required. Position requires an acceptable driving record in accordance with City of Las Cruces policy. Must pass a thorough background investigation.

Knowledge of: principles, practices, methods, and techniques of code enforcement and compliance; effective customer service, communication, and problem resolution; occupational and environmental safety and health hazards; record keeping; business and personal computers and applicable software;
City organization, operations, policies, and procedures.

Skill in: using initiative and independent judgment; reading, interpreting, and applying policies and regulations; assessing needs and implementing solutions; researching and analyzing data; operating motorized vehicles and bicycles; operating a…