Associate Consultant - Vertical Transportation

Associate Consultant - Vertical Transportation

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Job Summary

Are you looking to kick-start your career? Lerch Bates is hiring an Associate Consultant to develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities to be able to act as the primary contact and information resource for all potential and active customers within the assigned service area and produce revenue as set by leadership within two years of joining the organization. If you are eager to learn and utilize your materials management experience, this could be the role for you!

Company Insight

Lerch Bates is the global multidisciplinary technical consultancy, saving time and money for those designing, modernizing, investigating, or managing buildings. From risk to ROI, schedule to sustainability, Lerch Bates’ suite of services helps you plan the future of your building at every phase of the building lifecycle. As your partner in finding the best technical outcomes for your project, we ensure functionality, safety, and value work together.

We simplify the path to the best technical expertise for the built environment anywhere in the world. Lerch Bates offers integrated specialties, including vertical transportation, logistics, enclosures & structures, forensics, and multidisciplinary building lifecycle services that optimize performance from design, construction, and management to forensic investigation, repair, and modernization.

What You’ll Do

• Learn industry knowledge, skills, and best practices on the job from Consultants, Sr. Consultants, Regional and Area Managers, business partners, and outside sources.
• Work independently as a Consultant within two years of joining the organization.
• Perform all of the other essential functions of a Consultant with varying degrees of assistance from other team members.
• Generate a customer pipeline by marketing LB services for all given lines of business in the service area. This may include but is not limited to exhibiting at regional conferences, conducting client lunch and learns, visiting potential and current client locations, and writing industry-specific blogs and articles.
• Participate in all aspects of project development, including but not limited to bid and contract development, conceptual planning, design, construction administration, maintenance audits, site safety and equipment inspections, and modernization projects for vertical transportation systems.
• Manage active projects with assistance from team members to ensure client satisfaction, quality, timeliness of delivery, and timely billing and payment.
• Assist with the planning, coordination, billing, delivery, and all other activities associated with other business lines in the assigned service area as requested.
• Provide scheduled and requested reports with assistance to business support functions and leadership as requested, including but not limited to equipment and systems status, percentage of work completed, billing percentages, contract additions, change orders, and deficiencies lists.
• Must wear required Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hat, or other safety requirement of LB or the general contractor when performing on‑site, fieldwork, inspections, audits, surveys, construction administrative services, etc.

What You’ll Bring

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or Supply Chain Management preferred.
• 1‑2 years of experience in materials management, waste management operations, supply chain management, automated transport, material storage/retrieval systems, bulk and unit material handling/distribution systems, or warehouse intralogistics.
• Previous knowledge of the industry, including expert knowledge in one or more of the following areas: elevators, escalators, moving walkways, mid‑and/or high‑rise building design, specifications and analysis, or other vertical transportation equipment.
• Strong mechanical aptitude.
• Knowledge of and the ability to adhere to ASME codes, standards, and safety rules.
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to coordinate the design and implementation of systems with the architectural team,…