Job Overview
DCWP is hiring an Inspector on a provisional basis or through the 55-a program, for field enforcement across the five boroughs. The role conducts field enforcement, undercover inspections, and joins multi-agency enforcement actions. It enforces weights-and-measures laws by testing, sealing, condemning, or confiscating weighing and measuring devices, which may include petroleum products. The Inspector investigates trade practices to detect and eliminate consumer deception across trades and occupations licensed by DCWP. The job is physically active, involving lifting, walking, mass transit, and climbing stairs, plus completing reports on complaints, violations, and special inspections using tablets and computers. It prepares summonses and testifies at hearings, uses agency systems for email, evidence uploads, and assignment tracking, and communicates clearly in writing and speech. Qualifications: a high school diploma plus four years of full-time satisfactory experience conducting investigations or inspections for a consumer or worker protection agency, or a baccalaureate degree, or an equivalent combination with college credits substituting for experience. A New York State driver's license is required and must be maintained, and candidates should be comfortable driving city vehicles throughout NYC.