Field Investigator (Streets

This is field investigational and inspectional work gathering facts by inquiry, observation, or examination to determine conformance to the provisions of statutes, ordinances, codes, regulations, or standards, or to identify existing or potential health and safety hazards. Employees in this class perform a series of inspections, observations, examinations, inquiries, and interviews to determine the existence of violations and are responsible for making assigned inspections, explaining non-compliance and corrective and preventive measures, issuing violation notices, and re-inspecting to gain compliance.

Employees in the Streets specialty Sanitation Enforcement assignment perform investigational and inspectional work involving litter, debris, and illegal dumping. Employees in the Streets specialty Public Safety Traffic assignment regulate the safe movement of vehicular, pedestrian, and bicycle traffic during peak traffic times and perform investigational work involving unpermitted right-of-way closures. Employees in the Health assignment perform investigational and inspectional work involving pesticides, rodents, vacant lot cleanups, and abandoned automobiles and appliances.

Employees in the Licenses and Inspections specialty perform investigational work involving construction, permit and license enforcement. Contact with the public to gather information through questioning, explain violations and requirements for correcting problems identified, increase the awareness of the causes and prevention of violations and health and safety hazards, and provide information relevant to assigned program is a significant aspect of the work.

Work involves some disagreeable aspects and is performed under the close supervision of an administrative or inspectional supervisor.

The analyst responsible for reviewing applications and additional documentation for this job opportunity is

Ashanay Graham

City of Philadelphia – Office of Human Resources

1401 JFK Blvd., Room 1530

Philadelphia, PA

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Ashanay.

Graham

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Only an open competitive eligible list will be established as a result of this examination. Permanent City employees will receive no promotional preference in this examination.

Candidates who pass the exam and are placed on the civil service list will be retained on the list for a minimum of one year and a maximum of two years after the establishment of the Eligible List.

Philadelphia residency is not required to submit an application; however, applicants must have established bona fide residency in the city of Philadelphia for one year prior to appointment for this civil service opportunity.

As a condition of employment with the City, any person offered employment shall be required to certify that such person either is fully current on any and all debts, taxes, fees, judgments, claims, and other accounts and obligations due and owing to the City; or has voluntarily entered into a payment agreement with the City. For so long as the person is employed by the City, the amount of the payment as set forth in the payment agreement (not to exceed, for any pay period, twenty percent (20%) of the person’s gross pay for such period, without the person’s consent) shall be withheld from each paycheck until such payment agreement is fully satisfied.

Such person shall also be required to certify as a condition of employment that he or she is fully current on any and all debts, taxes, fees, judgments, claims, and other accounts and obligations due and owing to the Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) or has voluntarily entered into a payment agreement with PGW.

Failure to enter into a payment agreement shall result in the cancellation of the appointment and removal from the certification. The name of the eligible candidate will be returned to the eligible list.

Candidates who have maintained a bona fide residence in Philadelphia for at least one year prior to the date of the civil service examination shall have priority over all other people receiving an…