Consultant - Existing Building

About Lerch Bates

Lerch Bates is a global technical consulting firm dedicated to improving how buildings perform for owners, designers, and the people who use them daily. For over 75 years, we have partnered on some of the world's most complex and high-profile projects. Today, we provide Total Building Performance expertise that pairs Building Science and Building Flow with one integrated team delivery. Our work spans design, construction, investigation, repair, management, and modernization with a consistent goal: helping clients make confident, well-informed decisions in an increasingly complex Built Environment.

We are each 100% equal owners in the LB ESOP, which drives our ownership mindset and shapes everything we do. At Lerch Bates, your expertise matters, your voice carries weight, and your work directly contributes to our shared success as OneLB. We invest in professional growth, collaboration, and technical excellence, supporting challenging and meaningful work alongside people who care about getting it right. If you're motivated by solving real problems, working on impactful projects, and being part of a team that truly owns both the work and the outcome, you're ready to be more than an employee. You're ready to be an employee-owner.

Our core values are Ownership, Community, Integrity, Respect, and Optimism.

About the Role

As a Consultant in the Repair & Modernization department, you will lead and oversee rehabilitation projects from planning through execution. This role serves as a trusted technical liaison and subject-matter expert within the field of practice. You will manage multiple projects, provide technical recommendations, and deliver strategic solutions to clients while mentoring, training, and providing technical oversight to specialists, engineers, and team members.

You will act as a trusted advisor to clients and prospects, building and maintaining strong relationships. Your day-to-day involves identifying opportunities to enhance service, preparing detailed reports on existing conditions and defects, and coordinating with internal designers and external stakeholders to ensure construction drawings and specifications align with project intent and building science principles. You will conduct on-site quality assurance reviews, verify construction conforms to industry standards, and assume full managerial responsibility for project scope, schedule, design, budget, quality, staff, and execution.

Working Environment

This role involves both physical and mental demands and may be performed in various settings, including offices, construction sites, and confined spaces like elevator pits. Tasks often require frequent movement in multiple directions. Employees must navigate tight spaces, climb ladders, move around construction sites, take measurements, and travel by car, air, or rail. Duties may involve working at heights and in confined spaces, using hands for tasks like typing and operating elevator components, and applying up to 30 lbs. of force. Close visual attention is also required. Lerch Bates will provide reasonable accommodations upon request through Human Resources.

Hiring Process & Eligibility

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a pre-employment background check and drug test. The drug test includes screening for marijuana, regardless of state or local laws permitting its use. A conditional offer of employment will be rescinded if a candidate fails either the background check or the drug test. This requirement is mandated by federal regulations applicable to our government contracting obligations.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.