Department:

Stormwater

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Do you enjoy working outdoors and have a keen eye for quality and compliance? Join Sarasota County as a Stormwater Field Compliance Specialist and play a key role in protecting our stormwater infrastructure and waterways. In this field-based position, you'll inspect contractor work, ensure compliance with County standards, and help keep our roadsides, canals, ponds, and lakes safe and well maintained. If you're looking for a rewarding career where your work makes a visible impact every day, apply today!

We have many opportunities for both growth and advancement, on top of Florida's generous pension plan. Apply today and join this growing team to see your direct impact on the community!

About this Role

• Inspect vendor work to ensure quality, completeness, and compliance with contract requirements and performance standards

• Document daily inspection activities and maintain accurate inspection records

• Monitor vendor performance, identify deficiencies, and recommend corrective actions using the work management system

• Verify completed work to support the accuracy of vendor payment requests

• Monitor job site safety and recommend corrective actions to ensure compliance

• Build and maintain positive working relationships with vendors and internal/external customers

• Collaborate with customers and contractors to resolve work-related questions and project issues

• Participate in vendor progress meetings to review performance, schedules, and project status

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 6:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or its equivalent

• Three (3) years or more of experience in construction/landscape maintenance, contract-applicable construction trades, or in a field providing technical supervisory services to construction/landscape maintenance contractors

• -OR- College or university-level training in an appropriate field may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required construction/maintenance experience

• Valid Florida Driver's License at the time of hire

Physical Demands: may occasionally lift and/or move more than 50 pounds.

Subject to Passing Substance Screening:  This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening.  An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment for a period of five (5) years

About Everything Else:

Starting Pay: $22.94/hr

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents. You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

• If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)  

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)  

Benefits:

• Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! Choose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!
• For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net for additional information.
• Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations. 
• Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

A different blend of voices prompt better conversations, choices and results for everyone. Sarasota County – Many Voices, One Team.

We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally. 

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy at scgov.net (keywords: ADA Compliance).

Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.