FIRE PROTECTION INSPECTOR

Role and Responsibilities: Under direction, the Fire Protection Inspector reviews, plans and performs fire protection work involved in enforcement of the State Uniform Construction Code, the fire protection subcode, and relevant fire protection laws within the concerned jurisdictions; does other related tasks:

• Examines and approves plans for fire protection work to see that they comply with the fire protection subcode of the Uniform Construction Code (UCC).
• Inspects and evaluates work in construction projects to ensure that all work and materials installed conform to approved plans and the fire protection subcode of the UCC and relevant fire protection laws/regulations.
• When violations of the fire protection subcode are found, determines the cause and takes corrective action.
• Gives testimony in court cases.
• Prepares recommendations regarding both temporary and final certificates of occupancy.
• Prepares recommendations regarding both temporary and final certificates of occupancy.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Possession of a Fire Protection Inspector license issued by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs. There are two (2) licenses issued based on the class structure to be reviewed, industrial and commercial (ICS), or high-rise and hazardous (HHS).

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of the organization and content of Uniform Construction Code regulations and of the organization and content of the fire protection subcode.
• Knowledge of the fire protection subcodes background, purpose, history, place in local government structure, and relation to construction code enforcement programs at other levels of government.
• Knowledge of classification of structures into class categories.

Ability to: analyze and interpret the Uniform Construction Code; examine and approve plans for residential and small commercial structures; carry out field inspection activities for structures in classes I and II; organize assigned fire protection field inspections and investigative work and to make the required field visits/inspections/investigations; prepare detailed and technical correspondence.