Senior Lighting Designer
Farnborough, Hampshire (with remote working options and occasional national travel)
About Us
For over 20 years, Hampshire Light has been enhancing residential homes with thoughtful, award-winning lighting designs. As the leading lighting design consultancy in southern England, our family-owned business is dedicated to making our clients' visions a reality, blending creativity with expert technical knowledge to provide practical, innovative solutions.
We are now looking for a Senior Lighting Designer to join us on a full-time, permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.
The Benefits
- Salary of up to £60,000 DOE
- 23 days' annual leave (plus Bank Holidays)
- Government NEST auto-enrolment Pension Scheme
- Statutory sick pay
- Remote working options (After probation)
- Laptop & Tablet
This is an incredible opportunity for a talented lighting design professional with excellent project management skills to join an innovative, leading organisation where your expertise will shine.
As the leading designer in our team, you will be instrumental in setting the stage for success across high-profile projects, where your creative flair and technical prowess will truly stand out.
Creating stunning, sustainable solutions that not only impress but set new benchmarks in design excellence, this role offers the perfect platform to transform your bright ideas into reality, with the freedom to innovate and lead a talented team of designers.
So, if you're eager to switch on your potential and take the lead in lighting design, read on and apply today to make your mark in this shining role!
The Role
As a Senior Lighting Designer, you will lead the design and delivery of high-end residential and luxury hospitality lighting projects from conception through to completion.
You'll be our creative and technical expert, working with our lighting design team to deliver exceptional lighting solutions that meet both aesthetic and functional needs, whilst adhering to budgetary and regulatory requirements.
Engaging with our clients, you'll organise vision and briefing meetings to enable them to realise their lighting vision and conduct walkthroughs to determine optimal lighting solutions. You'll develop designs using Photoshop and CAD, ensuring client satisfaction and technical excellence.
Supporting our business development efforts, you'll help us secure high-profile clients, identify improvements to streamline our processes and identify innovative new lighting concepts, showcasing our strong portfolio and thought leadership.
Additionally, you will:
- Produce construction drawings, electrical load schedules and specification sheets
- Oversee the construction phase, collaborating with architects, engineers and other stakeholders
- Work with the Blinds & Curtains team to integrate designs
- Mentor and support junior lighting designers
- Handle all project queries
About You
To be considered as ourSenior Lighting Designer, you will need:
- Significant experience of lighting design within a design practice
- Experience designing and specifying lighting control systems, namely Rako, or the willingness to learn quickly
- Experience of co-ordinating offshore workers and UK freelancers
- Excellent project management and commercial skills, with experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously
- The ability to hand sketch lighting details
- Competency in the use of Sketch-Up
- The ability to use lighting design and calculation tools, such as Revit, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign and Dialux
- Strong technical understanding of luminaires currently available from leading manufacturers
- A solid understanding of the practical side of construction
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills, both written and verbal
A degree in Lighting Design, Architecture, Interior Design, Electrical Engineering or a related field would be beneficial to your application, as would membership of professional bodies such as the Institution of Lighting Professionals (ILP) or the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE).
Other organisations may call this role Lead Lighting Designer, Lighting Design Manager, Lighting Design Engineer, Lighting Design Lead, Senior Lighting Consultant, or Principal Lighting Designer.
Webrecruit and Hampshire Light Ltd are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
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