The Hawaiʻi Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) is seeking engineers and building construction inspectors.
The top engineering jobs are supervisory positions whose salary range tops out at more than $16,000 a month. The staff engineer job openings requiring entry level experience are Engineer II jobs that start at nearly $6,000 a month.
The building construction inspector jobs salary range goes from slightly more than $6,000 a month to just over $7,000 a month. Inspectors, in addition to their salaries, can also earn a shortage differential that varies by position, and can be substantial.
The state is recruiting the building construction inspectors under the Operation Hire Hawaiʻi (OH-HI) initiative which is a targeted outreach featuring an expedited hiring process, fast-tracking qualified applicants into job opportunities throughout Hawaiʻi.
Most of the engineering jobs (all but the program managers) are being recruited under the state Department of Human Resources Wikiwiki Hire program, which is also a fast-tracked process. The Wikiwiki Hire program can speed up the hiring process by months.
The open civil service positions and their locations are:
- Engineering Program Manager in Kona and on Maui
- Engineer II, III, IV and V on Maui
- Engineer III, IV and V on Oʻahu and on Hawaiʻi Island
- Building Construction Inspector I and II on Maui
- Building Construction Inspector II on Oʻahu
- Building Construction Inspector II and III on Hawaiʻi Island
- Building Construction Inspector III on Kauaʻi
Interested applicants can visit https://ags.hawaii.gov/employment/.