Director, Vertical Transportation

Tishman Speyer•New York City, NY

1d•$200,000 - $250,000

About The Position

Tishman Speyer creates vibrant destinations and dynamic environments that inspire innovation and connected communities. As a diversified developer, operator, and investment manager of top-tier real estate in 33 markets across the globe, our business choices are driven by the belief that real estate should unlock human potential. Tishman Speyer’s diversified portfolio spans market rate and affordable residential communities, premier office properties and retail spaces, industrial facilities, and mixed-use campuses. We create state-of-the-art life science centers through our Breakthrough Properties joint venture, and foster innovation through our strategic proptech investments. By combining global perspective with local expertise, and a personalized approach, we are able to anticipate our customers’ evolving needs. We were the first real estate company to introduce asset-wide amenity services through our ZO platform, and the first traditional real estate company to create its own flexible space and coworking brand, Studio. Since our founding in 1978, Tishman Speyer has acquired, developed, and operated 576 properties, totaling 233 million square feet, with a combined value of over $131 billion (U.S.). Tishman Speyer currently has approximately $65 billion in assets under management, including iconic properties such as New York City's Rockefeller Center, São Paulo's Torre Norte, The Springs in Shanghai, Paris Bourse in Paris and Frankfurt’s OpernTurm and TaunusTurm. Summary of the Position: The Director of Vertical Transportation will be responsible for managing elevator performance at all buildings in the US Portfolio. The primary purpose of this position is to provide Class A elevator customer experiences. This position will be the single point of contact for our building managers, and elevator OEM’s and elevator consultants. In this position you will collect operational data on each car and use that to identify performance and cost trends and identify equipment or maintenance issues that can be cross fertilized among regions as needed and communicated back to Elevator OEM’s for product improvement. The position will also liaise with our construction department on new building projects. In this position you will be the internal expert and go-to problem solver for all technical and service-related issues for the company’s elevator and escalator fleet at existing assets. This position will also require the candidate to participate in redevelopment and ground up development projects. The candidate will be required to assist in the definition for the BOD, detailed drawing, and equipment reviews, assist with systems procurement as well as specific construction oversite of the systems as they are being installed. The candidate will also be required to become very involved with the regional engineering staff in overviewing and accepting the commissioning process and the hand over of the developments. Along with having technical expertise, the Director Vertical Transportation will lead and manage our consultants and vendors across multiple markets

Requirements

10 or more years of pertinent experience
4-year engineering (Mechanical or Electrical) degree strongly preferred
Strong understanding of Class A Office, Mixed Use and Residential buildings, with a demonstrated track record in large scale and complex projects, timely project delivery, cost control and customer satisfaction
Strong interpersonal and supervisory skills

Responsibilities

Manage the collection and reporting of all key elevator and escalator statics: maintenance hours, and costs, repair costs, mod costs, call backs, wait times, destination times, availability, and trip counts.
Working with our consultants and OEMs keep a detailed database of all elevator equipment – controllers, cars, door operators, call systems, power units, hoists, pit equipment, hydraulic components, electrical feeds, and Elevator Management Systems.
Maintain a database of OEM mechanics assigned to our buildings either stationary or on call including their performance as correlated by key statistics.
Track costs on all levels of modernizations.
Evaluate options from OEMs and 3rd parties as they are made available for additions to existing cars.
Track all elevator related costs, to be used with purchasing and estimating work.
Scope, and oversee all elevator and escalator modernization projects.
Review and help craft maintenance budgets.
Review and approval all work.
Review all billing.
Develop scope of work for consultants and participate in consultant selection.
Track all regulatory filings.
Manage the optimization of dispatching, floor assignment, and special programming modes.
Participate in new construction to property operations turnover