About Lee & Associates Houston

Lee & Associates – Houston was founded in 2015 and has consistently been named one of Houston Business Journal’s Top Brokerage Firms. We are a fully integrated commercial real estate company ready to creatively respond to our clients’ needs. In addition to brokerage services, the Houston office has expanded to include a property management portfolio, a medical office business line, and a retail division. Lee & Associates – Houston is part of a nation-wide team of brokers, with more than 75 office locations in cities across the US and Canada. Our unrivaled capabilities and unwavering dedication to integrity appeal to smart building owners and company managers who recognize the value of partnering with a business-minded broker. Through hard work and fierce commitment, Lee & Associates – Houston promises to deliver optimum returns on a company or client’s real estate investments.

Position:

We are seeking an Assistant Property Manager who will provide day-to-day operations management of the property, while emphasizing positive response to concerns of tenants and increasing the value of the building. This position will report to a Senior Property Management and may supervise other property management staff.

Job Functions:

Essential Functions

• Develop and maintain positive tenant relations
• Maintain ethical, professional, and courteous relations with contractors and tenants
• Perform as a team member with all employees
• Assist in directing property personnel
• Provide for the administration of activities related to the physical operation of the property, including supervising contractors, but not limited to:
  • Operations
  • Engineering
  • Cleaning
  • Repair
  • Remodling
  • Parking
  • Security
  • Landscaping
• Manage, provide information, and direct input of fiscal activities of the property including, but not limited to:
  • On-site bookkeeping
  • Operations Analysis
  • Budget Preparation and Management
• Manage all aspects of lease administration, including, but not limited to:
  • Rent Roll Maintenance
  • Preparation/Execution of leases and related documents
  • Lease provisions compliance
  • Develop, coordinate, and implement leasing and renewal strategies
• Coordinate all construction activities of property maintenance and tenant buildout
• Ensure all government, industry and company required programs are instituted and maintained within the property (i.e., ADA, IAQ, CGC)
• Direct and manage all emergency procedures including, but not limited to:
  • Establishing plans
  • Implementing practice
  • Monitoring equipment
  • Executing plan in live emergencies
  • Directing and assisting with evacuations, bomb searches and life safety alarms as deemed reasonable and prudent
  • Assisting emergency authorities and response teams in capacity of fire/life safety director
• Comply with all company and regional policies

Other Functions

• Develop, implement, and maintain marketing strategy for both current and prospective tenants, including, but not limited to:
  • Responding to telephone and on-site inquiries
  • Guiding tour groups
  • Negotiating lease contracts
• Provide support to development group, including, but not limited to:
  • Partner relations
  • Quality control during construction
  • Program development
  • Building start-up
• Represent Lee Management Services and Lee & Associates in selected business, community and industry organizations and groups
• Carry out other duties as assigned by Senior Property Manager
• Provide assistance to accounting as request

Requirements:

Essential Physical Abilities

• Meet the highest attendance and punctuality requirements
• Visually inspect building, including the garage and tunnels
• Climb up and down stairs and ladders for inspections and emergency procedure practice and implementation
• Physically withstand long working hours
• Detect emergency alarms – auditory and/or visual
• Conduct cooling tower and roof inspections by gaining access through restrictive openings and ascending ladders or steps to the roof or tower well
• Conduct window washing equipment inspections by examining rig
• Use olfactory, auditory, and visual senses

Essential Knowledge and Skills

• Interact with employees, visitors, and contractors with poise and diplomacy
• Establish and maintain a cooperative working atmosphere among staff
• Exchange ideas, information, and opinions with others to formulate policies and programs and/or arrive jointly at decisions, conclusions, or solutions
• Maintain a calm demeanor in emergency situaqtions
• Apply principles of rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
• Interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form
• Compose business letters, expositions, summaries, and reports, using proper format, punctuation, grammar, diction and style
• Speak before an audience with confidence, using correct English
• Read and interpret newspapers, periodicals, journals, manuals, financial reports, and legal documents
• Compute discount, interest, profit and loss, commissions, escalations, ratios and proportion, and percentage
• Calculate surfaces, volumes, weights, and measures
• Integrate analyses of data to discover facts and/or develop knowledge concepts or interpretations
• Produce computerized spreadsheets

Experience Required:

• 2-5 years management experience with profit and loss responsibility
• Bachelors degree from an accredited university

Working Environment:

Indoors – 95%

Outdoors – 5%