Salary: $64,625.60 - $101,316.80 Annually
Location : City Hall, 900 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA
Job Type: Full-Time Permanent
Job Number:
Department: Public Works
Opening Date: 09/14/2026
Closing Date: 9/28/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

Description
The anticipated hiring range is $64,621 - $94,000.
The City of Richmond Department of Public Works is seeking highly qualified candidates to fill the position of Bridge Inspector in the Bridge and Structure Maintenance Division. The incumbent is responsible for examining bridges and related structures, ensuring conformity to the federal, state, and city codes, regulations, and engineering specifications.

This class inspects bridges and culverts owned by the City of Richmond as required by the Federal Highway Administration and the Virginia Department of Transportation. Incumbents may: prepare reports; make repair recommendations; ensure structures are properly rated and evaluated; coordinate with consultant engineering firms; and maintain city databases on structures. This position performs occasional work at extensive heights and requires the ability to operate at high altitudes.
Duties include but are not limited to

• Preparing Bridge Safety Inspection reports based on state and federal guidelines to include documentation with photos, verbal descriptions, and repair recommendations and updating City databases
• Inspecting structures by reviewing previous reports and documenting current conditions to include assessing, photographing, measuring, and recording all deficiencies and determining if any deficiencies require immediate action
• Planning inspections of structures to include monitoring traffic conditions and requesting necessary lane closures, rental of equipment such as boats, noting special features that may require extra scrutiny, operating other equipment needed such as lights and ladders, and requesting encroaching vegetation removal
• Performing other related duties as required such as monitoring progress of consulting engineering firm assignments, gathering data for consultants, providing repair recommendations, and preparing miscellaneous reports

**City of Richmond Department of Public Works employees who perform duties in this class are considered essential employees and may be required to work during times of emergencies, natural disasters, and inclement weather.**

Qualifications, Special Certifications and Licenses
MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE:

• Associate's degree in engineering or related area
• Four (4) years of experience related to inspections
• Five (5) years of active experience and signature authority related to bridge inspections; preferred
• An equivalent combination of training and experience (as approved by the department ) may be used to meet the minimum qualifications of the classification

LICENSING, CERTIFICATIONS, and OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Requires completion of Federal Highway Administration engineering-based classes.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
TYPICAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: These are a representative sample; position assignments may vary.

Knowledge (some combination of the following):

• Federal, state, and local codes and regulations related to bridges and culverts
• Traffic regulations pertaining to inspections and closures

Skills (some combination of the following):

• Effective oral/written communication
• Mathematical calculations
• Computer proficiency
• Problem solving
• Customer Service
• Documenting

Abilities (some combination of the following):

• Work autonomously
• Self-manage
• Safely operate aerial access equipment
• Organize

Americans with Disabilities Act Requirements

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: Working conditions may include exposure to travel to other locations within the City of Richmond as well as outside of the City of Richmond; exposure to hazardous physical conditions such as mechanical parts, electrical currents, vibrations, etc.; atmospheric conditions such as fumes, odors, dusts, gases, and poor ventilation; inadequate lighting; intense noise; and environmental hazards such as disruptive people, imminent danger, and a threatening environment.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Due to the nature of work assignments, incumbents must be able to perform detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks, with frequent interruptions and under time constraint. The essential duties of this classification may require the ability to regularly stand, walk, push, pull, finger, talk, see, hear and use repetitive motion; frequently feel, grasp, finger and see; frequently talk and hear; and occasionally balance, stoop, crouch, stand, pull, grasp, and feel. The working conditions may include environmental hazards. In terms of the physical strength to perform the essential duties, this classification is considered to be sedentary, exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.
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