Modular Permitting Coordinator

comfortsystemsusa; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TAS, a Houston-based subsidiary of Comfort Systems USA, is seeking a Modular Permitting Coordinator to manage regulatory compliance and jurisdictional approvals for factory-built modular data center assemblies, ensuring smooth transit and site integration.

You will align production milestones with local and state approvals, interface with engineering, quality, production, logistics, product management, project management and field teams to verify documentation, and maintain compliance records

Qualifications

• Experience with state and municipal permitting processes.
• Experience maintaining compliance records and logs.
• Ability to interface with multiple departments and inspectors.

Responsibilities

• Align production milestones with local municipal code requirements and state building approvals.
• Interface with engineering, quality, production, logistics, product management, project management, and field execution teams to verify documentation accuracy.
• Maintain compliance records, tracking logs, and agency correspondence in enterprise resource platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to liaise with management, customers, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision daily.
• Ability to apply common sense to written or oral instructions.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Permitting knowledge

Documentation accuracy

Cross-functional communication

Education

High School Diploma

Associate or Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Construction Management

3-5 years modular permitting experience

Tools

ERP tools

Permit portals

Microsoft Office

Google Sheets

Job description

Position Overview

The Modular Permitting Coordinator is responsible for managing regulatory compliance and jurisdictional approval for factory-built modular data center assemblies, ensuring seamless transit and site integration.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Align production milestones with local municipal code requirements and state building approvals.


• Interface with engineering, quality, production, logistics, product management, project management, and field execution teams to verify documentation accuracy.


• Maintain compliance records, tracking logs, and agency correspondence in enterprise resource platforms.


• Strong, writing, verbal, organizational and communication skills; using such skills with various levels of management, customers, other employees and external stakeholders.


• The ability to work under minimal supervision daily.


• Ability to apply common sense, understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written or oral.


• Any other tasks as assigned by TAS.

Job Skills

• Deep understanding oof state regulations, permit requirements, and regional building codes or knowledge of how to retrieve such information.


• Mastery of compliance tracking software, engineering change notices, submittal packages for jurisdictional approval.


• Skill in bridging technical language between TAS employees from multiple departments and municipal inspectors.

Education & Training

• High School Diploma or equivalent


• Associate or Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or Constriction Management preferred


• 3-5 years' experience in modular permitting preferred

Minimum Requirements

• Experience in modular construction and state compliance programs.


• Knowledge of state and regional transportation or building regulatory frameworks


• Strong communication skills to liaise with external officials and internal stakeholders.


• Creation of purchase requisitions.


• Proficient in using ERP tools, specialized state permit portals and customer portals.


• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Google Sheets

Preferred Requirements

• Coursework or certification in CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management or PMP)

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

Position is at least 70% to 85% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions. Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.

Company Overview

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq. feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer's facilities.

TAS' fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.

With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial culture as well as a talented and productive workforce, we continue to set and exceed aggressive market penetration and financial goals. More information is available on the company website at: www.tas.com .

Important Notice

TAS has a tobacco-free workplace policy, under which individuals are not allowed to smoke or use tobacco or nicotine products on the TAS premises, while conducting TAS business off premises or take \"smoking\" breaks during working hours. \"smoking\" and \"tobacco or nicotine products\" includes, but is not limited to, product such as cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, vaping, all forms of smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco, snuff, dip) and clove cigarettes

The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties