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Philadephia

BEAM is seeking to add experienced senior and junior Architectural Lighting Designers to it's growing team. We are a team of college educated architects, interior designers, fine-artists, and creatives that all love implementing lighting designs in architectural spaces. Is your resolution to find a better place to learn and grow your craft? Care to join us as we start the new year? --- Theatrical lighting designers need only apply if seeking a full-time position and have had experience in permanent installations.

For application and full job description: https://tinyurl.com/mryrwfra

Berkhamsted, England

Do you want to design light schemes for the world’s biggest and best Superyachts?

We are a well-established, award-winning Lighting Design and Manufacturing Business with a wealth of experience in the Marine, Hospitality, Residential sectors. We are looking to expand our team with a Lighting Designer who has a minimum of 3 years of industry experience. If you are looking to further your career, take on more responsibility and use your creativity to drive and run large scale projects from conception to completion please email us with your CV and/or portfolio at [email protected].

You will need to be pro active and an excellent communicator with people at all levels of business. As well as excellent creative and technical skills, you will need to have extensive knowledge of all relevant software packages including Dialux / Relux, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, Adobe, and Office.

Responsibilities will include:

- To successfully design, plan, manage and oversee projects alongside our design team and under the direction of Senior designers and Director for both Fee based and Design and Supply projects.
- Delivering lighting designs to a world class level, candidates will be involved throughout all design stages from initial concepts through to project commissioning and snagging.
- To ensure the smooth running of all lighting design projects (current and new) delegated to you.
- To liaise with our product designers on specification and pricing as well as creating initial concepts for products / installation to suit project needs.
- To provide sound technical lighting design advice to our clients.
- Stay on top of current market and industry trends and be aware of the wider luminaire market. It is expected that any candidates will have an active interest in the industry and look for opportunities to further their knowledge of this and the wider design industry.
- To arrange and undertake site visits (mainland and abroad).
- To establish and maintain strong relationships with end clients, architects, interior designers, M&E consultants, and developers.
- To assist colleagues and the Director in ensuring we maintain a high level of design and technical output along with the ongoing development of design studio procedures.

If you’re hardworking, ambitious and have got what it takes we’d love to talk you now…

For application and full job description: https://tinyurl.com/5u6ndvmn

New York

We are looking for a Lighting designer who will work alongside our senior lighting designers, assisting in the delivery of creative and technical artificial and daylighting design solutions to our challenging projects. You will work on inspiring and challenging projects in collaboration with many of the world’s leading architects, contractors and organizations.

What will I be doing?

- Provide a suitable level of technical lighting, daylighting design and creative lighting design to projects.
- Work competently on an independent and team basis.
- Prepare concept and preliminary engineering solutions for detail design.
- Directly work with clients/ and or architects
- Assist in the production of design materials, such as concept design documents, design notes, report writing, AutoCAD drawings + details and technical luminaire specifications.
- Provide professional lighting layouts, sections and details using AutoCAD or similar to allow a clear understanding of the concept principles.
-Ensure senior staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and the objectives of the client are achieved.
- Continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy and services represent the client’s best interests and that BH policy is in keeping with current legislation, British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
- Develop and enhance the Buro Happold Lighting brand offering.

What can I bring?

- Professional Degree or Master’s Degree in Lighting, Day lighting or a related field such as architecture, design or engineering.
- 3-5 years of experience
- Professional experience in the lighting design industry or equivalent is not necessary as in-house training and mentoring will be provided.
- Basic understanding and design interest in various building design sectors, including artificial lighting and daylight design and analysis.
- Must be creative and have a basic technical knowledge of lighting, daylighting and luminaires.
- Should also have excellent conceptual and communication skills, ideally being able to communicate ideas (in both sketch and CAD form). Have general design, calculation, specification, controls, code and commissioning knowledge.
- Software skills to preferably include: Dialux, Relux, 3D Studio Max, AGI, Photoshop, Sketch-up, IES, Radiance and AutoCAD
- Familiarisation with design tools is helpful but not essential.

Interested? Intrigued? Inspired?

For application and full job description: https://tinyurl.com/5ceudest

New York

We are looking for a talented Lighting Designer to join our award-winning design team at Journey’s Physical Studio!

Our physical studio was formed through the acquisition of ICRAVE (www.icrave.com) in December 2021, an industry thought leader in strategy, interior, and experience design. ICRAVE has collaborated with Fortune 500 brands and up-and-coming companies across various sectors, including health care, airport & transportation, restaurants and hospitality, sporting stadiums, entertainment ventures, and commercial real estate worldwide. The business was founded by Lionel Ohayon in 2002, a visionary in architectural and experience design, who is both a Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Journey.

About the Position:

As our Lighting Designer, you will work with architects, interior designers, and external clients to create and produce beautiful, functional lighting designs for multiple project types. Our integral lighting approach ensures that lighting is one of the main design tools, telling the unique story of each project. With a wide variety of projects and close collaborations with our interior designers, this position offers a unique opportunity for creativity and growth.

Every day, you will be responsible for completing all phases of project lighting design, starting from the original conception to the final phases. Additionally, you will:

● Attend client and design team meetings, provide lighting design solutions appropriate to client brief, budget, and relevant standards
● Decide how a space will be treated with light for aesthetic and practical purposes, considering the function, level of formality, budget, and other qualities
● Produce sketches, drawings, layouts, specifications, reports, and other graphic material which communicates the design intent to the Participants in the construction process
● Oversee the documentation of the lighting design via CAD layouts, lighting details, light fixture schedules, lighting control specifications
● Review cost estimates of project lighting specifications and adjust lighting design to meet owner’s budget.
● Review the construction progress of lighting installation at the project site and issue field reports to the design team.

To thrive in this role, you should have relevant experience in architectural and/or interior/theatrical lighting, strong communication skills, and the ability to express ideas thoroughly. You are a stellar project and time manager who can handle several projects with changing requirements, client requests, and tight deadlines. Your technical skills include:

● Advanced AutoCAD 2020, AGI132, and Revit
● Proficient in Bluebeam, Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, and Photoshop
● Knowledgeable of 3D Studio Max and Rhino is a plus but not required

For application and full job description: https://tinyurl.com/hk5yv2m4

Chicago

At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.

● What a day at EXP has in store for you
● Provide CAD (ACAD / REVIT), 3DS and AGI support to Project Designers.
● Proficient in the skills of Lighting Specialist.
● Ability to accurately create fixture specifications and cut sheets.
● Provide creative content for conceptual design documents both hand drawn and via computer.
● Provide creative research including gathering conceptual images.
● Ability to complete project tasks within timeframe requirements.
● Provide creative writing support for conceptual.
● Provide initial hand-drawn conceptual level lighting details.
● Provide initial budget costing analysis for initial fixture selection
What Your Experience Looks Like
● BA or MFA in Lighting Design.
● Proficiency in 3DS Max Studio, REVIT, Auto CAD and AGI software.
About Us

With a mission to understand, innovate, partner and deliver, EXP provides engineering, architecture, design and consulting services to the world’s built and natural environments.

Our heritage dates back to 1906, when the earliest of EXP’s predecessor companies started its engineering infrastructure practice. Today, thousands of creative professionals across EXP work together to deliver extraordinary experiences year after year.

What Makes Us Different

The passion, enthusiasm, diversity and industry-leading capabilities of our employees make us who we are. We’re committed to providing a challenging work environment that cultivates career growth, encourages creativity and rewards excellence.

For application and full job description: https://tinyurl.com/zf6ucn62