ENGINEERING SPECIALIST III - 43001001

Requisition No: 851530 

Agency: Financial Services

Working Title: ENGINEERING SPECIALIST III - 43001001

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 43001001 

Salary:  $55,000.08 

Posting Closing Date: 05/02/2025 

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*****OPEN COMPETITIVE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY*****

DIVISION: STATE FIRE MARSHAL

BUREAU: FIRE PREVENTION

CITY: TALLAHASSEE

COUNTY: LEON

SPECIAL NOTES:

High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

 

Additional requirements:

• Valid driver’s license.
• Applicant must possess certification as Florida Fire Safety Inspector I at time of appointment.
• Applicant must possess certification of Florida Fire Safety Inspector II or Florida Code Administrator at or within one year of appointment.
• Must be familiar with state statutes, administrative rules governing fire sprinkler contractors, fire equipment dealers, building construction, and fire prevention requirements.

 

Preferences:

• Experience conducting or preparing training presentations.
• Two (2) or more years of professional or paraprofessional experience in fire prevention, fire protection systems installations, or other construction inspection related experience
• Two (2) or more years’ experience in fire code enforcement or building code enforcement.
• Experience regulating fire protection contractors and fire equipment dealers.
• An Associate’s degree or higher from an accredited college or university.

 

This position requires a security background check, including fingerprint as a condition of employment.

 

This position will be filled at the salary of $55,000.08 annually.   

 

Employees of the Department of Financial Services are paid on a monthly pay cycle.

 

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported by the state application and any omission, falsification, or misrepresentation in the answering of the qualifying questions will be cause for immediate elimination from the selection process.

 

Minimum Qualifications for this position include the following REQUIRED ENTRY LEVEL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Knowledge of the concepts, terminology, principles and analytical techniques of an engineering specialty area.
• Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• Knowledge of correct spelling, punctuation and grammar usage
• Knowledge of the principals and techniques of effective verbal and written communications
• Knowledge of fire prevention practices, standards and codes
• Ability to communicate effectively with other in writing as indicated by the needs of the audience
• Ability to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents
• Ability to know how to find information and identify essential information
• Ability to find ways to structure or classify multiple pieces of information
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic calculations
• Ability to analyze and interpret engineering data.
• Ability to solve problems relating to engineering.
• Ability to perform technical engineering inspections.
• Ability to apply engineering quantitative techniques.
• Ability to plan, or