Title: Field Inspector
Locations: Denver, Colorado OR Phoenix, Arizona
Department: Vertical Transportation and Logistics
Job Summary:
Lerch Bates is hiring a Field Inspector to bring in-depth elevator knowledge and provide an essential service for the company. The field inspector will ensure all inspections and subsequent reports are completed in a timely manner.
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:
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 management’s assignments.
- Independent inspections of elevators and escalators across designated regions.
- Develops and manages weekly schedules based on the needs of clients and consultants who will be requesting the inspections.
- Assist consultants with site inspections for modernization surveys as needed.
- Provide pictures and survey notes to the PM to review and develop the final report for the client.
What You’ll Bring:
- Thorough knowledge of the installation and maintenance of the conveyance equipment and current elevator code.
- Previous experience in the Elevator industry; QEI/CEI certification is highly preferred.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- An ability to pay strong attention to thoroughly inspect the equipment
- An ability to work on top of high-rise buildings and elevator shafts
Why work with Lerch Bates:
- Pay Rate of $100,000 to $130,000 per year
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- Employee Stock Ownership program!
- Generous PTO
- Incentive compensation bonus
- 401(k) with up to 6% employer match!
- FSA and HSA
- Charitable paid time off
- Birthday Bonus
- Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development
- An entire internal department dedicated to your learning and career development!
- Exceptional company culture
- Employee resource groups
- Team building and networking activities
- And more!
Be more than just an employee…
Lerch Bates is 100% employee-owned! Our employee-owners bring a distinct “we own what we do” brand of technical consulting to every project and partnership. When you work with us, you join a company with an ownership mindset. Expect responsibility, service, and performance in everything we do. So, what does that mean for you? After a certain service time, you are eligible for stock ownership, which essentially works as a wealth accumulation and/or retirement account!
CORE Values: Ownership . Community . Integrity . Respect . Optimism .
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. Lerch Bates will provide reasonable accommodations upon request through Human Resources.
Physical Demands:
This role requires regular sitting, talking, and hearing in meetings and by phone. 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.
Mental Demands:
This position requires strong written and verbal communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Employees must interpret complex information, apply mathematical and logical reasoning, quickly learn new skills, and manage detailed, multitask workloads under shifting deadlines. Regular interaction with executives, colleagues, clients, and external stakeholders is also expected.
As a federal contractor, employment is contingent upon the successful completion and passing of a pre-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana, regardless of state of residence). A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to pass either the background check and/or the drug test, or if you fail to report to the drug test appointment.
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, or any other characteristic protected by law.
