UCC Elevator Inspector Trainee

Are you ready to enhance your skill set by learning a specialized technical trade? The Department of Labor and Industry is seeking a career-oriented individual with self-drive to maintain public safety and the rules and regulations of the department, all while performing lifting device inspections. Join our valued team and apply today to become a Uniform Construction Code (UCC) Elevator Inspector Trainee!

This role focuses on learning how to inspect elevators and lifting devices to ensure they meet safety laws, regulations, and standards. As a UCC Elevator Inspector Trainee, you will perform the following duties:

• Safety Inspection: Assist in checking elevators and lifting devices to confirm proper load design and functioning safety systems
• Equipment Observation: Observe and operate cars, controls, hoist ways, guide rails, doors, wiring, hydraulics, and machinery for compliance with safety standards
• Plan Compliance: Review new installations or major repairs to ensure work follows approved plans
• Condition Evaluation: Assess situations to determine whether unsafe equipment may remain in use or must be sealed out of service
• Accident Investigation: Support inquiries into elevator accidents and serious issues referred by authorized inspectors
• Report Preparation: Help prepare detailed inspection and investigation summaries for review

Interested in learning more? Additional details regarding this position can be found in the position description.

• Full-time employment
• Work hours are 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch.
• Home Headquartered
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  This position is home headquartered. In order to be home headquartered, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania.
• Salary:In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
• You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.

• One year of experience in the construction, inspection, installation, maintenance, repair, or design of elevators, passenger ropeways, or other lifting devices, electronic equipment, electrical systems, heavy machinery, motors, engines, drives or hydraulic systems.

• This position requires possession of a valid driver’s license.

• This position requires a valid certification issued by the Department of Labor and Industry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as an Elevator Inspector within the probationary period.

• The selected candidate must live in or be willing to relocate to Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Lehigh, or Northampton County by the end of the probationary period
  . Expenses will not be paid.
• You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
• You must be able to perform essential job functions.

• Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). and click on Veterans.

• 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).

If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.

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