Code Enforcement Officer - Neighborhood Services

Code Enforcement Officer - Neighborhood Services

The City of Colorado Springs is ready to welcome a Code Enforcement Officer to join its Neighborhood Services team. As a Code Enforcement Officer, you will conduct field inspections, investigate complaints, and enforce property maintenance, housing, and environmental safety ordinances. This role also manages a large caseload, maintains extensive public contact, and documents activities in logs and digital case systems. Key responsibilities include issuing summonses, providing court testimony, removing unpermitted signs, interpreting and applying codes, and communicating effectively across multiple channels. Work Schedule: This is primarily a day shift position; Monday - Friday, with hours between 7:00AM - 5:30PM. This is position requires that you are available for emergency call-out with needed. **This position is subject to budget required furloughs to be implemented in the 2026 calendar year, and any furloughs subsequently approved.**

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As a Code Enforcement Officer, you will:

• Investigate complaints, meet with citizens, and enforce codes related to housing standards, environmental health, vehicle and vegetation abatement, and zoning ordinances
• Intervene and mediate to resolve potential conflicts regarding citations or code violations
• Inspect homes, apartment buildings, businesses, vacant lots, and other properties to ensure compliance with housing standards, zoning and environmental health codes, ordinances, and regulations; determine whether properties are in compliance
• Issue notices of violation and perform follow-up inspections
• Document all actions and notices and issue condemnation orders
• Testify in court and at administrative proceedings and interview complainants and witnesses
• Respond in a courteous manner to public inquiries and complaints about code violations such as minimum housing standards, sanitation, weeds, junk vehicles, litter, land use/zoning, and graffiti
• Take photographs of violations and document activities using a computer; effectively and accurately convey observations
• Perform research to determine ownership and approved uses of property
• Work within neighborhoods to interdict signs of neighborhood decline and blight and foster community involvement with neighborhoods and organizations
• Other duties as assigned
• Learn more about this job by reviewing the class specification on the City of Colorado Springs Class Specifications page

We are looking for candidates who demonstrate:

• Knowledge of: Operations, services, and activities of a code enforcement program
• Principles, practices, methods, and techniques of technical inspection and code enforcement
• Methods and techniques of investigating property ownership
• Pertinent state and local ordinances, regulations, and health codes

• Ability to: Interpret and apply pertinent state and local ordinances, regulations, and health codes
• Make independent judgements
• Use noise and light meters, police radios, and mobile field reporting equipment
• Communicate clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships
• Proficiency use Microsoft Office Suite and case management software

Minimum Qualifications:

• Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade (high school diploma or GED)
• One year of full-time, professional experience in a related field
• Possess, or obtain upon hire, and maintain a valid, non-probationary Colorado driver's license not subject to restrictions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with investigations, inspections, and enforcement

Pre-Employment Requirements: The background check process for this position includes being fingerprinted. Fingerprints will be used to check the FBI's criminal history records. Please contact our team at City.Recruiting@coloradosprings.gov for any questions about this position.

Physical Demands: Exerting up to 50 lbs. occasionally; 20lbs. frequently; or negligible amounts constantly; OR requires walking or standing to a significant degree

Environmental Conditions/Frequency: Primary Work Environment - Office/field environment with travel from site to site Extreme Temperature - Seasonally Wetness and Humidity - Several times per month Respiratory Hazards - Several times per month Noise and Vibrations - Several times per month Physical Hazards - Several times per month Mechanical and/or Electrical Hazards - Occasionally Exposure to Communicable Diseases - Frequent contact with the public

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