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Housing Inspector (6270) - Department of Building Inspection - 162500

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• Department: Building Inspection
• Job class: 6270-Housing Inspector
• Salary range: $ - $
• Role type: Permanent Civil Service
• Hours: Full-time
• Exam type: Position Based Test
• Rule: Rule of the List
• List type: Entrance

• Application Opening:
  December 17, 2025.
• Final date to receive applications:
  Applicants are encouraged to apply immediately as this recruitment may close at any time, but no earlier than Wednesday, January 7, 2026
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• Annual Salary Range: $137,280 - $166,894.

What We Do:

The Department of Building Inspection (DBI) oversees the effective, efficient, fair and safe enforcement of City building, housing, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and disability access codes for San Francisco’s more than 200,000 buildings. This position is located in Housing Inspection Services (HIS), which implements and enforces the San Francisco Housing Code and pertinent related City Codes. HIS establishes and maintains minimum maintenance standards for existing residential buildings to safeguard life, limb, health, property, and public welfare by conducting periodic health and safety inspections and responding to tenant complaints.

• Enforces the provisions of the San Francisco housing code, applicable administrative code, and other codes as they relate to the condition, structure, occupancy, use and maintenance of the city’s housing inventory; inspects apartment houses, residential and tourist hotels, motels, housing projects, dormitories, mobile vehicle parks, residential care homes and condominiums; processes and issues notices, infractions and misdemeanor citations for housing code violations as necessary;
  
  maintains and updates inspection findings and records, and handles housing code enforcement and public record requests.
• Inspects for housing code violations in a systematic housing code enforcement program for multiple unit dwellings; determines substandard conditions as defined by the housing code; if necessary, may coordinate building, plumbing and electrical inspections; prepares detailed reports, logs and correspondence regarding inspection results, descriptions of the building and conditions, violations and hazards; determines nature and severity of violations and makes necessary referrals to other inspection groups and agencies;
  
  causes abatement orders or other orders for correction to be issued; and makes recommendations as required.
• Evaluates and checks building permit applications and related plans that result from housing code enforcement activities to ensure conformance with the housing code; educates residential building owners, property managers, building occupants, community groups, and others on compliance and/or corrections needed to meet housing and related code requirements; provides preliminary estimated cost of housing code mandated work for determination of permit fees, and makes progress inspections and reports on permit work.
• Works with City Attorney in obtaining inspection warrants and warning letters, testifies in court litigation involving housing, fire‑safety, and sanitation; schedules non‑complying code enforcement cases to administrative hearings; and determines if State Franchise Tax Board is to be notified in cases of non‑compliance.
• Performs periodic health and safety inspections of residential buildings or identified sections as required by the systematic housing code enforcement requirements and when appropriate from occupant/community complaints, as well as identifying and eliminating life hazards and various housing code violations; investigates complaints regarding housing conditions, illegal occupancy, safety and related sanitation conditions; determines proper department, division, or City agency for complaint referral;
  
  enforces security ordinance, smoke and heat detector ordinance, lead paint safe practices ordinance, residential energy and water conservation ordinances, and residential hotel conversion ordinance; mediates disputes between property owners and complainants when possible to facilitate timely…