Lucero Iñiguez

Under general supervision, reviews plans and specifications for new and existing buildings and facilities, fire protection systems and industrial processes; provides professional advice and assistance to other departmental staff on a variety of fire protection requirements and procedures; performs other related duties as required.

The Fire Safety Specialist is the journey level classification and reports to a Supervising Fire Marshal or Deputy Fire Marshal. Incumbents are assigned to the County Fire Office of the Fire Marshal and are responsible for assuring adherence to technical fire protection plans and fire defense plans. The Fire Safety Specialist performs the full range of duties requiring a greater technical knowledge with little supervision or guidance.

Examples of Essential Duties (may include but not limited to)

• Review building and site plans; make recommendations or corrections relative to code and ordinance requirements; determine appropriate fire protection measures; prepare conditions of approval.

• Study and evaluate building and development plans and specifications for conformance with applicable laws, codes and regulations concerning fire protection and life safety.

• Review fire system plans; determine water requirements for fire protection.

• Conduct special inspections and investigations of existing structures as it relates to fire codes.

• Review commercial, industrial and multi-unit building plans and specifications for conformance with applicable laws, codes and regulations concerning fire protection and life safety.

• Coordinate plan checking with other departments and make recommendations relative to use, changes and adoption of codes, ordinances and departmental standards.

• Perform advanced site inspections to determine solutions to various project issues by working with architects, engineers and construction personnel.

• Research, compile and maintain various reports, files and correspondences.

• Attend meetings with County or City planning personnel, architects and developers as needed.

Responsible for performing fire safety inspections of fire extinguishing and alarm systems in both existing structures and projects that are currently under construction.

• Reviewed and approved requested As-Built Plans.
• Assisted in Combustible Materials Task Force with duties such as incident inspections, facilitate interagency response, liaison with dignitaries to inform and update, report submittals.
• Conducted training ride-a-longs with potential new inspectors or peers currently in training.
• Perform State Mandated Annual Inspections.
• Reviewed blueprints and plans for new or remodeled buildings to verify structures met fire safety codes.
• Witnessed and approved testing of fire protection systems
• Inspected physical condition of automatic sprinkler systems to report conditions and suggest repairs.
• Checked various multi-family residential and business construction sites to determine fire code compliance.
• Reviewed new construction documents for fire safety, including extinguisher placement, exit locations and standpipe locations.
• Inspected buildings to locate hazardous conditions and fire code violations such as accumulations of combustible material, electrical wiring problems and inadequate or non-functional fire exits.
• Prepared recommendations to eliminate potential fire and safety hazards at establishments.
• Located fire code violations and recommended actions to bring properties into compliance.

Performing field work to ensure compliance with Riverside County land use, zoning, housing, abatement and nuisance codes and ordinances countywide, interview individuals, conduct preliminary field investigations, and issue notices and citations as needed. Additionally, wrote comprehensive reports, managed a high-volume case load, and attended hearings.

Enforce Title 14 for Waste Tires throughout the County including Fire Prevention inspections.

Ensure compliance with County land use, housing, zoning, abatement, nuisance codes, and ordinances by receiving, recording, and investigating complaints regarding non-compliance.

Contact property and business owners to schedule and conduct on-site inspections; advise residents, businesses, and other parties of ordinance requirements and seek to gain voluntary compliance through information and education efforts.

Document code and ordinance non-compliance by taking photographs, measurements, and recording all pertinent information from the parties involved; issue notices of non-compliance and when necessary, citations; prepare clear, concise, and comprehensive files, records, reports, and correspondence.

Maintain records of inspections and compliance efforts; prepare required documentation for legal actions; testified in court and administrative proceedings regarding code or ordinance non-compliance; perform follow-up actions as needed to ensure compliance.

Confer with related agencies and County departments on disposition of complaints and code non-compliance.

Perform complex code compliance investigations and resolve sensitive compliance complaints or requests; as a Code Enforcement Officer III I was sometimes in the capacity of a lead while out in the field and advised other Code Enforcement Officers.

Perform a variety of duties involved in the determination of applicants' continued eligibility for assisted housing programs utilizing established timeliness, agency policies, and federal regulations.

Answer questions and provide information to the public; investigate complaints and recommend corrective action as necessary to resolve complaints.

Conduct initial, annual, and special inspections for assisted units for the Housing Choice Voucher Program and related housing programs. Ensure assisted units comply with HUD requirements for decent, safe, and sanitary housing conditions. Advise and assist property owners and tenants of unit maintenance needs identified from inspections or complaints; conduct follow up inspections of completed work and repairs.

Prepare and execute contracts between the Housing Authority and property owners; negotiate rent with property owners; calculate participants' rent; initiate the collection of delinquent overpayments from participants or property owners.

Prepare reports on inspections and related matters.

Perform related duties and responsibilities as required.

Assist in the development and implementation of resident programs, that assist the homeless and other special projects.

Oversee Resident Managers for Housing Authority owned properties. Responsible for all legal action against tenants including court proceedings for evictions where I had a 100% success rate.

Answered multi phone lines to a 24/7 monitoring center

Monitor, advise, and dispatch on commercial, residential, and municipal accounts for; fire/CO, burglary, medical, and environmental alarms

Process and make master account changes. Uphold high security and confidentiality for sensitive national corporate buildings, local banks, government property, and high profile residential accounts

Data Entry

Resolved customer complaints

Conduct alarm test/ update contact list information/ Set up tech service

Log all alarm activity information

•Provide account services to customers by receiving deposits and loan payments; cashing checks; issuing savings withdrawals; recording night and mail deposits; selling cashier's checks, traveler's checks; answering questions in person or on telephone; referring to other bank services.

•Records transactions by logging cashier's checks, traveler's checks, and other special services; preparing currency transaction reports

•Cross-sells bank products by answering inquiries; informing customers of new services and product promotions; ascertaining customers' needs; directing customers to a branch representative.

•Maintain customer confidence and protects bank operations by keeping information confidential

Various customer service and merchandising duties.

Maintained organized, presentable merchandise to drive continuous sales.

Ensure accurate pricing, help shoppers locate merchandise, clean the store, and handle customer inquiries.