Associate Lighting Designer
We are looking for a creative and experienced Lighting Designer at Associate level to join our established team in London or Edinburgh. This is a great opportunity to work on some truly amazing projects around the world along with a diverse mix of schemes in the UK.
Buro Happold are at the forefront of change, pushing everyone in our industry to embrace and achieve Net Zero. Our well-established Lighting team has a crucial contributing role in the preservation of energy, the reduction of carbon emissions and the overall protection of the environment through conscious and innovative design.
Buro Happold’s lighting team provide a complete lighting design service, from concept to commissioning, in which creative thinking is balanced with a solid understanding of technical, environmental, and socio-economic principles to meet our clients KPIs and for the benefit of local communities globally.
Due to the ongoing growth of our portfolio of outstanding projects, our team has an opportunity for an intermediate Lighting Designer. Working with Lighting professionals from a variety of backgrounds, you will have the opportunity to use and advance your skills within our friendly, close-knit team. Recent projects are broad in range and location and include the award winning English National Ballet (ENB), the Piece Hall in Halifax, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club -THFC, the Louvre Abu Dhabiand Sustainability focused projects (such as Terra - The Sustainability Pavilion).
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.
- This is an extraordinary opportunity to contribute to our fantastic Lighting team.
- Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, strong learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.
- You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.
Key duties
- Lead and manage a variety of projects and represent Buro Happold at external meetings.
- Provide a high quality informed technical lighting design and creative lighting design to projects.
- Present at Design Team meetings and liaising with project design teams when required.
- Prepare and take responsibility for design work from Concept and preliminary studies through Detail design for Tender.
- Production of design materials, such as concept design documents, design notes, report writing, AutoCAD drawings/ Revit 3D + details and technical luminaire specifications.
- Provide professional lighting layouts, sections and details using AutoCAD or Revit to allow a clear understanding of the concept principles.
- Carry out sustainability studies for lighting equipment options to inform/ validate the design proposals.
- Review of accurate quote information and detailed installation, commissioning, and operational information by others.
- Site attendance, reviewing compliance and commissioning witnessing.
- Ensure all staff are kept informed of important and relevant service/design decisions and challenges. And ensuring all relevant BH staff are informed of client matters.
- Quality Assurance (QA) and continually ensuring that practices, policies, strategy, and services represent the client’s best interests and that BH policy is in keeping with current legislation, International and British Standards and Codes of Practice etc.
- Assist in the development and enhancing of the BH Lighting Team and brand offering through social media and other channels.
Your skills and experience
- Hold a professional degree or master’s degree (or equivalent) in Lighting or a related field such as architecture, design or engineering.
- Previous experience of relevant professional roles (7 years minimum) in the lighting design industry or equivalent.
- Demonstrable track record of designing and delivering high level creative and technical designs for a variety of projects across various sectors, including interior and exterior artificial lighting and daylight design.
- Must be creative and have a sound technical knowledge of lighting and products specification.
- Have advanced design, calculations, and relevant codes/ regulations knowledge.
- Software skills to preferably include: Dialux, Relux, Photoshop, InDesign, Microsoft OS, AutoCAD, and Revit
- Experience of Managing projects, workload and mentoring junior lighting designers.
- A positive and proactive attitude towards meeting multiple project deadlines and working in an integrated manner within a multi-disciplinary environment is essential.
- Association with at least one of the main lighting bodies, including relevant professional membership(s) and a valid CSCS card for site attendance.
- Demonstrate a commitment to CPD and self-learning / development which contributes to strengthening the capabilities of the BH Lighting Group. (Desirable)
- Experience with daylight related software including Rhino, Grasshopper, Ladybug and Honeybee plug-ins would be an advantage. (Desirable)
- An interest in lighting’s impact on the exterior environment, the local biodiversity, the preservation of Dark Skies and our role of contributing to social, environmental and economic sustainability lighting aspects. (Desirable)
Please note you will need to evidence this through submitting a professional portfolio to accompany your CV. Your portfolio must include: Hand sketch, Photoshop render or illustration, Creative development of ideas, Technical drawing (CAD/Revit)
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including life assurance and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
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