Elevator Consultant

Job Details

Job Location:

Miami, FL 33128

Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year Department:
Vertical Transportation

Location:

Miami, FL

Lerch Bates is seeking an Elevator Consultant to join our Vertical Transportation team. This role supports a diverse portfolio of projects involving elevators, escalators, moving walks, and other conveyance systems across both new construction and existing buildings. Services may include vertical transportation design consulting, modernization planning, equipment assessments, maintenance audits, inspections, construction administration, and owner advisory services.

As an Elevator Consultant, you will serve as a trusted advisor to building owners, developers, architects, contractors, property managers, and project teams by providing technical expertise and practical solutions throughout all phases of a project's lifecycle. You will help clients optimize system performance, reliability, code compliance, passenger flow, lifecycle planning, and modernization strategies while supporting the successful delivery of both new and existing building projects.

This position is ideal for professionals with experience in the elevator industry, vertical transportation consulting, modernization, maintenance, inspections, design, or construction who enjoy solving complex technical challenges, managing projects, and building strong client relationships.

Lerch Bates (LB) is a global technical consulting firm focused on improving how buildings perform for owners, designers, and the people who use them every day. For more than 75 years we’ve partnered on some of the world’s most complex and high-profile projects. Today we provide Total Building Performance expertise that integrates Building Science and Building Flow into a unified delivery model.

Our work spans design, construction, investigation, repair, rehabilitation, management, and modernization with one consistent goal: helping clients make confident, well-informed decisions in an increasingly complex built environment.

We are 100% employee-owned through our ESOP. That means when the company succeeds, our employee-owners share in that success. It's more than a retirement benefit—it's an ownership mindset backed by the opportunity to build long-term financial value while helping shape the future of the company.

The duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed in this position. They are not intended to prescribe or restrict the assignments that management may make.

• Manage vertical transportation projects from planning through completion, including new construction consulting, modernization projects, equipment assessments, maintenance audits, inspections, and construction administration activities.
• Coordinate project scope, schedules, budgets, deliverables, and client communication to ensure quality execution and client satisfaction.
• Provide technical recommendations and guidance related to elevators, escalators, moving walks, and other vertical transportation systems.
• Support owners, architects, and project teams with system selection, modernization planning, traffic analysis, lifecycle planning, and operational evaluations.
• Prepare and communicate project updates, findings, and recommendations to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Maintain current knowledge of industry trends, technologies, codes, and best practices.

• Develop and strengthen relationships with existing and prospective clients.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the project lifecycle.
• Identify opportunities to expand services within current client relationships.
• Participate in industry events,…