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Job Title: Remote Permit Technician (100% Work From Home)
Location: Remote from Latin America
Position Type: Full-time
Salary: $2,600 USD/month
Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM US Pacific Time
About HireLatam: HireLatam is a premier recruitment agency that places top Latin American talent in independent contractor roles in US companies.
Our Client: A premier residential construction and homebuilding enterprise delivering high-quality residential communities and custom developments. They operate in a fast-paced pre-construction environment with process discipline, strict timeline adherence, and cross-functional accountability across sales, design, purchasing, and field operations.
The Role: Our Client is seeking a detail-oriented, proactive Permit Technician to manage end-to-end permitting and pre-construction document workflows across multiple municipal jurisdictions. Reporting to the Purchasing Manager, this professional will prepare permit application packages, submit plan sets, track revision pipelines, liaise with local building officials, and hold internal stakeholders accountable to critical pre-construction schedules.
Key Responsibilities:
- Prepare, package, and submit plan sets, site plans, deeds, utility applications, and color selections for municipal permit approval across various markets.
- Track plan check comments, resolve jurisdictional revisions, manage permit fee payments, and secure final permit issuance in line with production schedules.
- Assemble complete permit handoff packages and transition ownership to field production teams upon approval.
- Build professional working relationships with municipal jurisdictions, building departments, and utility providers to streamline approval timelines.
- Coordinate with Operations, Purchasing, Land Development, Design, Sales, and Accounting to gather required pre-construction documentation.
- Monitor upcoming deadlines, identify potential jurisdictional delays, and hold internal stakeholders accountable for delivering assets on schedule.
- Facilitate and manage the weekly cross-functional Sales and Production coordination meeting.
- Assist purchasing with Requests for Information, bid reviews, and subcontractor communications.
- Manage the paperless digital document management system: job folders, pre-construction start packages, site plans, and municipal records.
- Enter and maintain accurate project data in the ERP system, including property addresses, permit numbers, and temporary power records.
- Compile and report permitting metrics and KPIs for executive leadership.
Required Qualifications:
- Direct prior experience in construction coordination, municipal permitting, project administration, or land development.
- Proven capacity to learn and navigate varying local building department requirements, code enforcement protocols, and permit portals.
- Experience with digital document management platforms, ERP platforms, calendaring software, and Microsoft Office at intermediate to advanced level.
- Excellent written and verbal English, native or fully fluent, with confidence to manage deadlines, address bottlenecks, and communicate assertively with stakeholders.
- Exceptional organizational skills and a detail-driven mindset, able to manage concurrent permit packages accurately in a paperless environment.
- Full availability Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM US Pacific Time.
- Dedicated quiet workspace with a high-performance computer, reliable backup systems, and high-speed internet.
Preferred: familiarity with US residential construction methodologies, building trades, or single-family housing developments; experience facilitating cross-functional team meetings or interdepartmental pre-construction workflows.
Benefits: fixed $2,600 USD/month, clear processes and defined SOPs, direct exposure to Purchasing, Operations, Design, Land Development, and Sales leadership, and a 100% remote role from anywhere in Latin America.
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