Supervising Building Official

The City is seeking an experienced, collaborative leader to serve as Supervising Building Inspector. This key role oversees the City’s construction inspection program, leading a team of inspectors to ensure safety and compliance across our community's development projects. If you are a seasoned professional ready to step into leadership, we invite you to apply.

Please note:

Hiring incentives are not guaranteed but may be valued up to $5,000 for positions deemed hard to fill by the Director of Human Resources. For those candidates who live 50 or more miles from San Luis Obispo County, relocation assistance up to $10,000 may be available. In addition, the City is also honoring service credit towards vacation accrual for completed public sector years of service.

If you are selected for interviews, they will take place in person on Thursday, August 20, 2026, so please hold that date.

Under general direction, organizes, directs, supervises, and participates in operations and activities of the City’s construction inspection program.

This single-position, mid-management classification plans and oversees the activities of construction inspection employees. This class is distinguished from the Deputy Building Official in that the latter is responsible for overall administration of the Building and Safety Division, including administering the division budget, developing goals, and formulating policy. This class is distinguished from Building Inspector in that the former exercises supervision over Building Inspectors and Stormwater Inspectors.

The Supervising Building Inspector receives general direction from the Chief Building Official or Deputy Building Official within a framework of broad policies and established organizational values and processes.

The Supervising Building Inspector exercises direct supervision over Building Inspectors and Stormwater Inspectors.

(Any one position may not include all of the duties listed nor do the listed examples include all tasks which may be found in positions of the class.)

• Administers and coordinates activities of the City's construction inspection program, including compliance with stormwater regulations.
• Supervises, trains, and evaluates the work performance of building inspectors and stormwater inspectors handles performance issues and participates in the selection of new employees; prepares and conducts performance evaluations; and ensures that staff technical training is current.
• Oversees and coordinates consultant services contracts for plan check and review.
• Ensures consistency in the inspection of active construction sites.
• Schedules, monitors, and tracks field inspection and assigns and distributes workload.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with the general public, property owners, other agencies, co-workers, subordinates, and supervisors.
• Inspects new and existing commercial, industrial, and residential buildings and structures in various stages of construction/alteration for compliance with approved plans and building codes, grading regulations, zoning requirements, and related ordinances, with emphasis on the more complicated projects.
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data for purposes of special studies and reports; maintains accurate records; oversees the maintenance of automated records and generation of computerized reports relating to plan review and inspection activities; analyzes state law and regulations to ensure program compliance.
• Serves as part of the management group of the Building and Safety Division, working in a team environment along with the Code Enforcement Supervisor and Building Permit Services Supervisor.
• Performs related duties similar to the above in scope and function as required.

Knowledge of:

• Organization and direction of operations and activities related to construction inspection.
• Principles and practices of employee supervision, including work planning, assignment, review, and evaluation, and the training of staff in work procedures. Computer applications applicable to construction…