The Leader, Building Inspections is responsible for the administration, direction, mentoring and leadership of a large, diversified operational team. The role is responsible for providing strategic leadership for a team of Building Safety Codes Officers that inspect buildings for life safety, health safety, fire safety, and energy codes towards achieving occupancy. This is to ensure compliance with The City of Calgary's Quality Management Plan (QMP), Municipal Government Act, The Alberta Safety Codes Act, relevant building safety codes, building standards and civic bylaws. Primary duties include:
- Provide strategic leadership to the Building Inspection group, ensure that service outcomes meet the requirements The City of Calgary's QMP, and the Business Plan.
- Formally direct and mentor staff, meet service goals, review of service metrics, promotion of change innovation, disseminate corporate values to staff and customers through communication and action.
- Provide statistics, reporting, and opinion to the Manager for changes to policies and procedures, bylaws, building codes and standards to achieve the divisions goals.
- Provide mitigation strategies related to workforce planning, staff tools, applications, policy, procedure, and service outcome issues to maintain budgets and service standards.
- Cultivate professional working relations with partners at a civic level for customer service needs, The City of Calgary QMP, DBBS Business Plan, and resource performance and inspection outcomes.
- Engage with Industry Partners at various committees and councils; act as a media relations representative for engagement where there are implications of public safety related to the building code.