Lighting Designer

Lighting Designer Main Tasks

• Support the sales team and lighting project engineers with lighting design and technical support
• Prepare detailed drawings, take offs, schedules, datasheets and plans (manually, or using CAD, BIM or specialist modelling and visualisation software).
• Brief and liaise with electrical contractors.
• Coordinate with other departments and colleagues
• Monitor technical compliance of products
• Liaising with product designers
• Liaising third-party suppliers.
• Ensuring compliance with building regulations.
• Assists internal sales order processing staff
• Determine and manage own personal workload
• Design a lighting concept for a project that is both functional and appealing
• Determine how the concept can be implemented in a time and cost-efficient way.
• Liaise with customers from concept to completion of projects

Lighting Designer Essential Skills

• At least 2 years' experience of exterior & interior lighting market
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly and concisely
• Combination of artistic skill and technical knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills
• Understanding of technical lighting design, and product application capabilities
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• AutoCAD and experience with relevant lighting design packages (Dialux, Evo Relux, AGi32)

Candidate Profile

• Lighting design training or an industry recognised standard.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Excellent administrative and time management skills
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to build strong relationships with customers and colleagues
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, results orientated and able to work as part of a team

Salary: £30,000 - £38,000 DOE