Job Description

Job Location: Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Salary Range: $105,000.00 - $135,000.00 Salary/yearDepartment: Existing Building
Job

Summary:
Lerch Bates is seeking a Senior Envelope Rehabilitation Consultant to lead complex structural evaluation, rehabilitation, and repair projects for existing buildings. This role serves as a technical authority responsible for assessing structural deficiencies, developing repair and rehabilitation strategies, and overseeing the execution of structural restoration projects from concept through completion.
In this role, you will act as an Engineer of Record, providing final technical decisions and signing/sealing structural repair documents and reports. You will manage multidisciplinary project teams, oversee design development, and ensure structural rehabilitation solutions meet engineering standards, code requirements, and client objectives.
This position is ideal for a senior-level structural engineer with deep experience in forensic engineering, structural condition assessment, and building rehabilitation who is ready to lead both projects and people while serving as a trusted advisor to clients.
About Lerch Bates:
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, which fosters an ownership mindset and accountability in everything we do. At Lerch Bates, your expertise matters, your voice carries weight, and your work directly contributes to our shared success as OneLB.
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 the assignments that management may make.
Structural Evaluation & Forensic Assessment
- Lead structural condition assessments of existing buildings, including commercial, institutional, and complex facilities
- Investigate structural deficiencies such as deterioration, cracking, corrosion, settlement, and system failures
- Evaluate load paths, structural performance, and building stability concerns
- Review existing construction documents and field conditions to identify structural risks and repair needs
Rehabilitation Design & Engineering
- Develop structural rehabilitation and repair strategies for existing building systems
- Perform and oversee structural calculations for repair, retrofit, and code upgrade conditions
- Prepare and seal structural repair drawings, reports, and engineering deliverables as the Engineer of Record
- Conduct peer review of structural reports and design documents prepared by internal staff
Project Leadership & Oversight
- Assume full responsibility for project scope, schedule, budget, design quality, and execution
- Manage multidisciplinary teams including engineers, designers, and technicians
- Oversee construction administration for structural repair and rehabilitation projects
- Conduct site visits to evaluate construction progress and ensure compliance with design intent
Client Leadership & Communication
- Serve as a senior technical advisor and primary client contact for structural rehabilitation projects
- Lead client meetings to present findings, repair strategies, and engineering recommendations
- Collaborate with business development teams on proposals, scopes, and project planning
- Build long-term client relationships and support growth of existing accounts
Mentorship & Technical Development
- Lead and mentor up to three direct reports, including engineers and technical staff
- Provide technical direction, performance feedback, and professional development support
- Establish best practices for structural evaluation and rehabilitation methodologies
What You’ll Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil or Structural Engineering (or related discipline)
- Professional Engineer (PE) or Structural Engineer (SE) license preferred
- 8+ years of experience in structural engineering, with a focus on forensics, rehabilitation, or existing buildings
- Proven experience acting as Engineer of Record on structural repair or retrofit projects
- Strong expertise in structural systems behavior, building failures, and rehabilitation design
- Experience with structural condition assessments, investigations, and repair documentation
- Strong technical writing and communication skills, including report preparation and client presentations
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and manage complex engineering projects
- Strong knowledge of building codes and structural rehabilitation practices
- Experience with project budgeting, scope development, and client management preferred
- Proficiency in structural analysis/design software (e.g., RISA, ADAPT, or similar) preferred
- Master’s degree or specialized certifications in structural/forensic engineering preferred
Why Work with Lerch Bates?
- Competitive compensation
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off (starting at 17 days annually)
- 9 paid holidays
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
- Paid parental leave
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Performance-based incentives and bonuses
- Employee assistance and wellness programs
- Be more than just an employee…
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 an additional 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:
The employee must be able to work at extreme heights using Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and in various weather conditions (e.g., extreme heat, cold, and wet).
The work environment varies greatly from a general office environment, construction sites and entry into tight spaces which requires the ability to tolerate constant up, down, forward and reversing motions while performing work
Mental Demands:
While performing the duties of this position, an employee is are regularly required to use written and oral communication skills; read and interpret complex data, information and documents; analyze and solve problems; use math and mathematical reasoning; arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g. patterns of numbers, objects, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations); apply general rules to specific problems to produce sensible answers (deductive reasoning); combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (inductive reasoning; observe and interpret people and situations; learn and apply new skills and information rapidly; perform highly detailed work on multiple, concurrent tasks with frequently changing deadlines and interruptions; and interact with LB Executives, Consultants and Administrative Assistants as well as clients, members of governmental agencies, professional and community organizations and committees, the media and the public.
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.
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.