HIGHWAY SAFETY SPECIALIST (WT: MV COMPLIANCE EXAMINER)

Requisition No: 880464

Agency: Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle

Working Title: HIGHWAY SAFETY SPECIALIST (WT: MV COMPLIANCE EXAMINER)

Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 76005325

Salary: $37,413.00 (Annually)

Posting Closing Date: 08/11/2026

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DIVISION OF MOTORIST SERVICES

BUREAU OF DEALER SERVICES

• Career Service (CS) Opportunity*
• Open Competitive Advertisement*

To be considered for this position, applicant responses to qualifying questions must be clearly stated within the employment history. Software systems, actual work experience, and years of employment must be clearly defined, or the application may not be considered for the position.

Contact Person: Jordan Schultz, (904) 365-2685, jordanschultz@flhsmv.gov

The Organization

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) provides highway safety and security through excellence in service, education, and enforcement. With a workforce of approximately 4,500 employees throughout the state, the Department is leading the way to A Safer Florida through the efficient and professional execution of its core mission: the issuance of driver licenses, vehicle tags and titles, and operation of the Florida Highway Patrol.

Our Benefits include

• Paid Parental Leave
• Annual and Sick Leave Package
• Nine Paid Holidays
• State Health and Life Insurance
• Educational Benefits
• Contributory Retirement Plan

To learn more about FLHSMV and why it's a great place to work, visit our website at: flhsmv.gov/careers.

If youre seeking employment with a meaningful mission, opportunities for skill growth and career advancement, competitive medical and life insurance, retirement benefits, ample vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, and educational assistance, consider building your career at FLHSMV!

Duties and Responsibilities

This is a highly responsible position within the Bureau of Dealer Services. This position investigates consumer complaints filed against mobile home, recreational vehicle and motor vehicle dealers/dealerships and is responsible for preparing administrative cases. Additionally, this position conducts record inspections of franchised and independent motor vehicles, mobile homes, and recreational dealers. Compliance Examiners assist existing and prospective dealers with the licensing process and inspect all initial dealer locations within an assigned territory. The incumbent enforces laws related to titles, registrations, and liens with Florida licensed dealers and verifies vehicle identification numbers.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of automotive parts and repairs.
• Skill operating personal computers, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Skill in dealing with customers from varied backgrounds in stressful public contact situations effectively and efficiently in a tactful and courteous manner.
• Skill collecting and reviewing data.
• Skill performing investigative work.
• Skill in understanding, interpreting, and applying rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Skill in preparing accurate and complete written reports.
• Skill evaluating applications for licensure or permitting.
• Skill preparing correspondence.
• Knowledge of the Florida Real-Time Vehicle Information System (FRVIS).
• Ability to handle cash, make correct change, and follow money handling procedures.
• Skill in recording information and maintaining tracking logs.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced Microsoft Office user.

• Provided excellent customer service in a professional/business setting including working with varying customers in stressful situations while effectively and efficiently completing transactions in a tactful and courteous manner.

• Collected and reviewed data.

• Conducted investigative work and/or interviews and investigative writing in a professional setting.

• Understand, interpret, and apply rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.

• Prepared accurate and complete written reports.

• Evaluated applications for licensure or permitting.

• Prepared professional correspondence (letters, memos, emails).

• Experienced Florida Real-Time Vehicle Information System (FRVIS user).

• Followed money handling procedures accurately.

• Recorded information and maintained tracking logs.

• Knowledge of automotive parts and repairs.

• Worked in a field related to law enforcement, regulatory program, and/or driver licenses/Tax Collector's office.

• Provided consultative services (reviewed info and provided expert advice

Job Related Requirements

• The position you are applying is subject to a Level 2 background check, along with Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) clearance, to include a fingerprint-based check of the criminal records of the FBI, as a condition of employment pursuant to Chapter 110.1127, 435 and 943, Florida Statutes. Please note that, since this position requires CJIS clearance, the Department will have access to all an applicant's criminal and juvenile delinquency records, even those that have been sealed or expunged.
• This position requires the incumbent to have and maintain a valid driver's license in good standing. This means there can be no cancellations, suspensions, or revocations for a minimum of three years prior to employment and for the duration of employment. There can be no more than three chargeable crashes or any violation of Chapter 316, Florida Statutes, during any consecutive three-year period prior to and throughout employment.
• This position works in both controlled indoor environments, as well as outdoors (exposed to weather and inside enclosed vehicles or equipment) and requires standing for extended periods of time, kneeling, crouching, stooping, crawling, bending, climbing and the ability to lift up to 20 pounds.
• Out-of-town travel and occasional overtime may be required (including Saturday and Sunday).
• Incumbents will be required to wear a division uniform.

Notes

After this advertisement closes, you will be emailed a skill assessment to the email address associated with your People First account. You will be required to complete the skill assessment by the pre-determined deadline. Those meeting the pre-determined scoring criteria will be invited to interview. Please note, the skills test scores remain active for a period of 90 days. Applicants who re-apply within the 90-day window will not be eligible to re-take the skills test.

General Information

• The elements of the selection process may include a skill assessment and/or oral interview.
• Applicants being considered for employment will be required to submit to a fingerprint-based background investigation, which will include a check of the criminal history records of the FBI. Fingerprints and associated information/biometrics will be retained in the FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system and fingerprints may continue to be compared against fingerprints submitted to or retained by NGI.
• FLHSMV employees are paid once a month on the last workday of each month. All state employees are required to participate in the direct deposit program pursuant to s. 110.113 Florida Statutes.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS' PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans' Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans' Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans' Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here. All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.