Permit Expeditor - City of Gainesville - Department of Doing - Gainesville, FL - EXPIRED

Posted on: 08-18-2017 in Gainesville, FL

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Job Information:

Company: City of Gainesville - Department of Doing

For more information and to apply, please visit our Employment Opportunities page.  AA/ DFWP/EOE/VP

http://cityofgainesville.org/humanresources/employmentopportunities

The newly formed Department of Doing at the City of Gainesville is seeking: dynamic, innovative and forward thinking professionals who will embrace the organization's citizen-centered vision to provide top-notch development services to our community. The community, its elected leaders, and executive leadership team have embraced this vision:  The purpose of our city is the people of our city. 
 
We are looking for a professional that understands how transformative customer service can be for a city and our citizens.  Are you someone who is:  optimistic, takes ownership, collaborates, looks to make others successful, takes chances, has compassion, is comfortable with a dynamic changing environment and is looking for professional growth opportunities? 
 
The City of Gainesville's Department of Doing now has an opening for a Full-Time Permit Expeditor. This position serves as the primary contact for customers, agencies, developers and City employees.

As a Permit Expeditor, you'll be: helping residents and businesses get things done by issuing building permits, scheduling inspections and helping people through the process. Typical job duties include but not limited to processing of customer (contractor, property owner) permitting requests; answering the phone; working with various customers to answer questions at front counter; coordinating with the building inspections management and colleagues in other disciplines in the review, permitting and inspection of projects and working with the Electronic Plan Management System to process and record customer requests.

To be considered for this position you must have:

• Graduation from high school or possession of an acceptable equivalency diploma
• Two (2) years of customer service work or experience related to area of assignment; or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience which provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.
• A Valid Florida Driver License

Testing: 

• This position requires testing on Typing, Word, and Excel. Please contact CareerSource Florida in order to schedule your test. The tests can be taken at CareerSource Florida, 10 NW 6th Street, Gainesville, Florida. 32601 Their phone number is 352-955-2245 (press 5 and then 3). An alternate CareerSource Florida location is in Starke, FL at 819 S. Walnut Street, Phone: 904-964-8092.
• Passing score of Moderate Knowledge and above for Excel and Word may be delivered to the City of Gainesville's Human Resources/Organizational Development Department, 222 E. University Avenue (Old Library Building next to City Hall), or a PDF can be sent to [email protected] or a fax including a cover sheet and the first page of each test to 352-334-2055 by 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, 09/07/17, to be considered for this position.
• You will need to re-test if the tests you submitted are dated more than one year ago (before 09/07/16) or if your current scores on file are not at a minimum speed of 35 for Typing. Call HR/OD at 352-334-5077 if you are unsure if your scores are still on file. 

Note:

• May establish an eligibility list
• May require assessments
• May under-fill the positions