# Principal Lighting Engineer

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Lighting Engineer to join our Lighting & Energy Solutions team at WSP. As a Principal Lighting Engineer, you will play a key role in providing comprehensive lighting and electrical engineering design and advisory services to clients across the public and private sectors.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Liaise with colleagues, multi-disciplinary design teams, stakeholders, and clients.

- Coordinate detailed design layouts, engineering drawings, and support documentation.

- Manage the preparation of feasibility reports, technical notes, optioneering reports, and specifications.

- Oversee project proposals and progress against programme milestones and budget constraints.

- Engage with Local Authority and Strategic Road Network clients to build strong working relationships.

- Analyze client briefs and offer expert guidance and tailored support.

- Develop and support delivery team members, including Early Career Professionals.

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

**Requirements:**

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

- Wide knowledge and understanding of external lighting and electrical design standards, guidance, legislation, and regulations.

- Experience in lighting maintenance operations and asset management.

- Competency in lighting design from conception through to issue for construction, with experience in using Lighting Reality or Dialux lighting design software and AutoCAD.

- Risk awareness, with the ability to manage or mitigate CDM and financial risk.

- Multitasking skills, with the ability to plan work in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.

- Proven interpersonal, organisational, analytical, technical, and communication skills.

- Capability to coach and develop junior team members.

- Experience working within the Local Government or Strategic Road Network sectors.

- Good knowledge of external lighting products.

- Membership of a relevant professional organisation, with IEng / CEng registration or actively working towards CEng status.

**What We Offer:**

- Opportunity to join a growing, multi-disciplinary team of lighting professionals.

- Access to global network of lighting specialists and experts.

- Professional membership and mentorship opportunities.

- Regular CPD sessions and advanced training programs.

## Skills

### Required
- Lighting design
- Electrical engineering
- Project management
- Team leadership
- Communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Technical skills
- AutoCAD
- Lighting Reality
- Dialux

### Nice to have
- Local Government
- Strategic Road Network
- Lighting maintenance operations
- Asset management

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