Job Type
Full-time
Description
We are looking for an
Lighting Designer 3 to join our team in our
Philadelphia or Wayne office.
The Lighting Designer 3 leads the design and documentation of lighting systems across a wide range of project types, scales, and market sectors. This role provides project-level leadership, overseeing coordination, and quality of work for lighting design teams. The Lighting Designer 3 applies advanced design, technical, and industry knowledge to guide project delivery, mentor junior staff, and contribute to client presentations and project strategy.
Essential Functions:
This position demonstrates advanced skills in:
- Documentation: Guiding the modeling and creation of drawings used to accurately deliver projects, reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership
- Software: Understanding the software analysis to ensure accuracy
- Building Technology: Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design, including advanced integration of lighting systems and controls across disciplines
- Project Delivery: Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget
- Codes: Ensuring project designs and construction documents comply with applicable lighting, energy, and emergency lighting requirements
- Quality Standards: Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards applying lighting design best practices and industry standards
- Sustainability: Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals
- Design Generation: Initiating the design approach to distinctive solutions which consider the totality of a project, including development of advanced lighting system concepts and specialized design applications
- Material Research: Selecting lighting and control systems and identifying appropriate applications that consider the lifecycle of the products and system performance
- Construction Administration: Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements
- Calculations: Determining and applying calculation and analysis models to evaluate engineering conditions and guide project design decisions, performing and reviewing lighting calculations to inform fixture selection and layout
- Cost Consciousness: Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
- Design Communication: Conveying lighting design intent, technical decisions, and cost implications to clients, consultants, and project teams, including leading client presentations and discussions
- Specification Writing: Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the design
Exhibits proficient ability in:
- Profitability: Effectively managing fees, resources, and the project delivery schedule to ensure the financial health of a project, including assignment of tasks and coordination of team workload
Requirements
- Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Architecture, Interior Design or Theater
- LC Certified or IALD Certification encouraged
- EwingCole currently utilizes Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam and the Microsoft Suite software to deliver projects
- Excels in the guidelines of preceding roles including Lighting Designer 2
Benefits of Working at EwingColeGenerous paid time off, 401(k) plan with company match, tuition reimbursement, flexible/hybrid work options, paid parental leave, excellent insurance offerings including medical, dental, vision, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, identity protection and more.
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