Posting Open Until Filled Salary: Commensurate with experience At the City of Atlanta, we are passionate about building and improving our community. Our police officers, firefighters and building inspectors keep our citizens safe. Our Public Works staff keeps our City clean and helps maintain, build and improve our City's infrastructure. Our City planners help envision and shape future City growth. Our Parks & Recreation professionals enhance our quality of life. Our engineers help keep our drinking water clean, the largest airport in the world (by passenger volume) operating and our buildings maintained. Along with the host of Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources professionals whose support is vital, we are the City of Atlanta! If you are seeking a meaningful role where you can make a real difference improving and growing our City, we welcome you to explore the job opportunities we have to offer. General Description and Classification Standards The purpose of this job is to assign and update street addresses, street names, and subdivision names for the city.
Supervision Received Works under very general supervision and reports to the Assistant Director of Land Development as needed. May work independently or with other workers with responsibility for completion of assigned tasks.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities These are typical responsibilities for this position and should not be construed as exclusive or all inclusive. May perform other duties as assigned.
- Reviews the applications for address requests as submitted (ADDR type of record) (research, coordination, assignment, publishing letters of approval, updating AA)
- Reviews various site plans, permits, and plats for compliance with ordinances and regulations pertaining to addressing and street names; reviews subdivision, townhome, and condominium projects requiring multiple addressing assignments; seeks clarification from developers, engineers, or others as appropriate to resolve addressing issues; determines which land parcels will be impacted and confirms ownership of land; and approves or denies submitted street names and subdivision names.
- Reviews internal requests for new addresses as part of the process of creating new lots (REP-replat, CON-Lot consolidation, SD-Subdivision, etc.)
- Processes the approved and recorded plats to enter the new addresses in the city computerized database - Identifies, researches, and resolves addressing conflicts; makes appropriate changes to remedy inconsistencies; and updates databases.
- Maintains internal database with all the new addresses Conducts address research at the request of both internal and external customers Coordinates with the GIS team for updating the city systems for new addresses Notifies property owners, E-911, U.S. Postal Service, various Fulton and DeKalb departments, and utility companies of any address changes and updates - issue.
Acts as the primary point of contact in the office / city for any address related
Decision Making Follow standardized procedures and written/verbal instructions to accomplish assigned tasks. Must be able to process information on hand and decide on next steps to complete tasks and/or resolve issues. Determines when to escalate issues to upper/senior management.
Leadership Provided Routinely provides work group leadership, guidance, and/or training to less experienced staff.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities This is a partial listing of necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job successfully. It is not an exhaustive list.
Thorough knowledge reading and interpreting a variety of plans / plats / maps and comply with local address ordinance (directional, quadrants, sequencing, etc.), a variety of records management techniques for maintenance of hard copy and electronic records. Skills: customer service skills / attitude, in person or over the telephone/ email.
Works effectively and efficiently under stress and meet deadlines as required. Works collaboratively with team members.
High level of team spirit due to frequent daily interaction with both internal and external customers.
