Architect Specialist

Salary

$5, $10,521.00 Monthly

Location

Statewide, LA

Job Type

Classified

Job Number

KB

Department

DPS-Office of State Fire Marshal

Opening Date

11/25/2025

Closing Date

12/9/ :59 PM Central

Mission Statement of the Office of State Fire Marshal: To uphold the law and provide for the protection of life and property from the hazards of fire or explosion, to ensure the safety of our citizens in the constructed environment, to provide equal access to disabled individuals and to promote the efficient use of energy in commercial buildings. This position location is TBD.

Selected Preferred Competencies:
Accepting Direction: The ability to accept and follow directions from those higher in the chain of command.
Acting Decisively: The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively.
Adapting to Change: The ability to adjust plans, expectations, and behaviors in response to change.
Championing Continuous Improvement: The ability to systematically drive or promote continuous improvement.
Communicating Effectively: The ability to relay information correctly and appropriately to connect people and ideas.
Demonstrating Accountability: The ability to accept ownership for your actions, behaviors, performance, and decisions.
Demonstrating Initiative: The ability to assess information and take action independently to help the organization achieve its goals.
Demonstrating Innovation: The ability to generate original ideas that create value, improve processes, or provide new products or services.
Displaying Professionalism: The ability to recognize how your actions impact the perceptions of both you and your organization.
Driving Results: The ability to identify important goals and work to achieve them.

Possession of a current Louisiana license to practice architecture plus two years of experience as a licensed architect.

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.

Job Duties:

R.S. 40: et seq. establishes the "Louisiana Industrialized Building Act." This Act directs the fire marshal to register and
regulate manufacturers and dealers of Industrialized Buildings (also referred to as "Relocatable Buildings" or "Movables"), and to
establish procedures by which compliance with the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code (LSUCC) can be achieved.
R.S. 40: effective 7/1/2026) directs the fire marshal to enforce compliance with the fire protection, egress, and accessibility
provisions of the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code as they apply to newly constructed structures and movables.
As such, the work centers about, but is not limited to, the establishment and maintenance of Industrialized Building plan review
procedures, the examination and review of drawings and specifications for Industrialized Buildings based on compliance with the
applicable LSUCC codes and standards, and oversight of the manufacturer and dealer registration and decal issuance process.

Work also includes, but is not limited to, the following related duties:

• Perform general plan review during times when the backlog increases
• Perform comprehensive reviews for compliance with the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code and other applicable codes and

standards for associated architectural systems and coordinate the requirements of these references for each applicable project

• Assist with research and recommendations for proposed equivalent methods of compliance
• Perform occasional inspections on site-specific installations when requested
• Perform product evaluations for building code compliance
• Prepare Interpretive Memorandum for administrative review
• Review unusual projects that require special research or reference seldom used standards.
• Develop standard review comments that reference the laws, rules, codes, and standards for use by other reviewers.

The incumbent in this position will assist with the following:

• Development of training materials and guides for all applicable review types in coordination with the Architect Administrator, the Architect Manager, the Architect Supervisors, and other Specialists in order to
• Provide accurate and consistent information for training the Plan Review staff.
• Provide training classes to OSFM staff and to various industry groups as needed.
• Develop and maintain thorough, comprehensive, and up-to-date training materials and training schedules to