ELEVATE your career with a fabulous opportunity at AECOM as a Senior Vertical Transportation Engineer on our New York Metro team! We offer exciting projects all across the US working on a variety of projects, allowing you to expand your scope into new territories. This role can be worked from either our NYC, Piscataway or Bloomfield, NJ offices.
The Vertical Transportation Engineer will design, develop, and review drawings and submittals on vertical transportation projects (elevators, escalators, and moving walkways). This professional will adapt and modify design features and operational methods to meet a variety of situations. The selected candidate will have experience performing the following:
- Working closely with principal designers to assist in the development of Vertical Transportation design criteria.
- Be able to work independently to solve vertical transportation project issues
- Leading a vertical transportation project team in the development of conceptual design criteria, schematic design, detailed design, and construction documents.
- Performing condition assessments and writing reports for Vertical Transportation equipment modernization.
- Producing drawings and associated reports and assisting with the preparation of vertical transportation project specifications.
- Inspecting installations and witness testing on site.
- Developing vertical transportation design concepts, calculating number, size and speed of elevators for all types of buildings including high rise, ideally utilizing the Elevate® software program
- Designing and providing design feedback for elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. Retrofitting these into existing facilities with very congested existing systems and infrastructure.
- Delivering vertical transportation solutions on major and/or complex projects, including for new construction, retrofitting equipment in existing facilities, and modernizing existing vertical transportation equipment.
- There will be travel of up to 5-10% for field assessments. Travel could be anywhere in the US.