Construction Inspector II

Salary : $51,099.42 - $54,738.98 Annually
Location : 4505 Patent Road, Norfolk, VA
Job Type: Permanent Full-time
Job Number: 14238
Department: Transportation
Opening Date: 09/24/2026
Closing Date: 10/8/2026 11:59 PM Eastern


Description
Norfolk, Virginia is America's most authentic and urban waterfront city. Home to the world's largest naval station and the business, arts, and cultural center of Coastal Virginia, Norfolk has been rated a top place to live, work, play, and raise a family by numerous publications. Working for the City of Norfolk is an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of others. With our commitment to competitive pay and a strong retirement package, you can do good for your community and do well for yourself. Join a caring workplace that proudly celebrates uniqueness, authenticity, and a shared commitment to improving the lives of our residents.

The City of Norfolk's Department of Transportation oversees transportation programs including traffic operations, roadway safety, and support for multi modal systems. The Traffic Operations Bureau performs traffic infrastructure improvements, maintains traffic control devices, and supports engineering projects to improve mobility and safety.

Construction Inspector II ensures construction compliance with codes/specifications and checks for potential safety problems. Provides community relations and administrative duties. Inspects activities. Reviews and approves traffic control safety plans. Enforces state and local codes pertaining to right of way, work zone safety and erosion and sediment control. Performs other duties as required.
Essential Functions

• Ensures construction compliance with codes and checks for potential safety problems by reading and interpreting design drawings, preparing and reviewing drawings, conducting visual and physical inspections, examining and evaluating materials furnished and quality of workmanship, ensuring compliance with erosion and sediment control standards, rejecting components of work that does not follow plans and specifications, resolving problems, consulting with architects, engineers, developers, contractors and owners and providing technical knowledge.
• Provides community relations and administrative duties by responding to complaints and requests, providing information, conducting research, entering information into the computer, updating the database, reviewing emergency conditions and generating correspondence and various statistical and project status reports.
• Review traffic control plans for utility work in the right of way.
• Perform routine field investigations to ensure utility contractors maintain proper traffic control and work zone safety.
• Meeting with contractors to review procedures and methods of construction.
• Inspect activities by going to pre-construction meetings, inspecting on-site, supervising plans and installation, coordinating with groups within and outside the city on projects, maintaining drawings and maintaining daily work log.
• Interpret City Codes pertaining to work in the right of way.
• Performs other duties by attending training, supervising and submitting contractor payments.

Education/Experience


Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with six months/one year of advanced study or training past the high school equivalency. Junior college, vocational, business, technical or correspondence schools are likely sources. Appropriate certification may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.

Required:

• Two years of experience.

Additional Information & Requirements

• Valid Driver's License required.

• Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
  
  
• Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
  
  
• Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
  
  
• Retirement

If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

• The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant's school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.

NOTE:
The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.
Non-City
Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.
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The following Supplemental Questions are specific to the position for which you have applied to assist the hiring manager in screening applications for specific experience being sought. Please be specific in answering these questions as they will be used to evaluate which applications will be given further consideration in the process. Do not answer "see resume" or "see application" as these are not valid answers. Please note that if you are invited to be interviewed by the department, your responses to the following questions may be subject to verification.

• I understand and will answer the following supplemental questions completely and thoroughly.

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If you were referred for this position by a current City of Norfolk employee, please provide the employee's full name, department, and job title, and your relationship to the employee. If not, please indicate by typing "N/A."
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Please select the highest level of education you have completed.

• High School Diploma/GED
• Some College (6 months or more)
• Vocational/Technical Degree
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree or higher

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Do you have experience in project coordination/management?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience in construction or electrical work?

• Yes
• No

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Are you able to read and interpret construction drawings, blueprints, and traffic control plans?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have experience performing site inspections related to traffic operations, engineering projects, or utility work?

• Yes
• No

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Are you proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)?

• Yes
• No

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This position is classified as "essential", which requires working during emergency/storm events. Do you understand this requirement?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have a valid driver's license?

• Yes
• No

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The the salary range for this position is $51,099.42 to $54,738.98. Does this meet your expectations?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have the legal right to work in the United States and, upon employment, can you provide documentation to verify this?

• Yes
• No

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Please provide an explanation of any periods of unemployment that are 30 days or longer. Indicate N/A if you have not experienced any periods of unemployment.
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Are you a current or previous City of Norfolk employee?

• Yes - I am a current City of Norfolk Employee
• Yes - I am a previous City of Norfolk Employee
• No - I am not a previous or current City of Norfolk employee

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Please indicate your veteran status. (A copy of your long form DD-214 may be required)

• I am not a Veteran
• I am a Veteran
• I am a Disabled Veteran

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