Lighting Design Manager (London)

MANUFACTURER NOW HIRING FOR A DESIGN LEADER - EARLY APPLICATIONS ADVISED !!

Lighting Design Manager (London) £48- 55k+ Neg Plus Co Benefits + Car / Allowance

Essential Responsibilities             

• Design and develop detailed lighting schemes to support sales of solutions. This will primarily cover indoor projects such as retail shops, hotels, sports lighting, flood lighting, industrial and commercial interiors.
• Work / apply applications design software to produce lighting designs mainly for Commercial / Industrial lighting that meet industry standards and customer specifications.
• Manage the Design Team on a day to day basis and follow up designs with Senior Designer and develop designs with input from application engineers / sales team / customers during projects.
• Be knowledgeable and able to apply relevant industry and segment guidelines, standards and regulatory trends and be able to translate these to the commercial team.
• Collaboration on product and projects presentation to end users, specifiers, partners (ESCOs), engineers and architectural offices, municipalities and local governments.
• Interact with the stakeholders to ensure the lighting effect meets the customers and regulatory requirements.
• Implement design changes (if required).
• Support lighting payback calculations (ROI) on a project by project basis in order to meet customer expectations.
• Travel to client locations to educate, direct and coordinate design of lit spaces.

Qualifications/Requirements     

• Relevant industry qualifications in Lighting Design disciplines.
• Working/practical experience of delivering lighting design projects.
• Knowledge of lighting design software, fully conversant with Autocad Relux & Dialux software.
• Knowledge of industry organizations and understanding of standards influencing industry designs.
• Understanding of the use of Photoshop is an advantage but not essential.
• Knowledge of International lighting and photometric standards.
• Able to understand and communicate technical and commercial data to sales teams and customers.
• PC literate (MS Word, Excel, Power-point, MSX/ Outlook).
• Fluency English.
• Skilled in Autocad (Drawing manipulation and output) is essential.
• Desire/drive to improve knowledge and skills.
• Organized, attentive to detail

A superb opening for a design professional that seeks a managerial lead role !