# Principal Architectural Lighting Designer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Architectural Lighting Designer to join our Lighting & Energy Solutions team. As a Principal Architectural Lighting Designer, you will work on a range of architectural lighting projects across various sectors, including commercial, retail, landscape, urban realm, lighting master planning, transportation, and infrastructure.

You will collaborate with a creative team to innovate solutions for architectural lighting projects, undertake a proactive client-facing role, and coordinate with multi-disciplinary design teams, clients, architects, and interior design teams.

Key responsibilities include:

- Collaborating with a creative team to innovate solutions for architectural lighting projects

- Undertaking a proactive client-facing role, coordinating with multi-disciplinary design teams, clients, architects, interior design teams

- Analysing and evaluating client briefs and offering expert guidance and tailored support

- Developing project proposals and mobilising progress against agreed programme milestones and budget constraints

- Managing the preparation of proposals, design reports, and specifications

- Coordinating the production of sketches, lighting calculations, design engineering, integration, and graphical output drawings

- Supervising, reviewing, and coordinating the work of other team members, providing technical guidance and mentoring to Early Career Professionals

- Representing WSP within the lighting industry, fostering industry relationships, and driving business development

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree or higher in a field related to Architecture, Lighting Design, Interior Design, Product Design, Design, or Engineering

- Membership of a relevant professional organisation, having achieved IEng or CEng registration with the Engineering Council or actively working towards CEng status

- Extensive knowledge and experience in lighting design consultancy

- Experience in leading projects and teams, with confidence in a management capacity

- Strong technical knowledge and wide-ranging experience in leading projects from concept through to delivery

- Advanced planning and organisation skills

- Risk awareness and ability to manage or mitigate risks

- Ability to multitask in a high-volume, fast-paced work environment

- Strong understanding of standards, legislation, and regulations affecting buildings and lighting

- Knowledge and understanding of the local marketplace

- Extensive knowledge of lighting products and luminaire manufacturers

- Ability to coordinate the development of expressive lighting design solutions

- Substantial experience in guiding the professional development of less experienced lighting designers

- Good understanding of lighting calculation software

- Competency in Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, Revit, BIM, and Microsoft Office

Benefits:

- Opportunity to work on a range of projects across various sectors

- Collaborative and dynamic work environment

- Professional development and growth opportunities

- Access to advanced training programs

- Regular CPD sessions

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## Skills

### Required
- Architecture
- Lighting Design
- Interior Design
- Product Design
- Engineering
- Project Management
- Client-facing
- Technical Guidance
- Mentoring
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AutoCAD
- Revit
- BIM
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- Sketch-up
- Rhino
- 3DS Max
- V-Ray

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