Lighting Design Manager

KEY ROLE TO PLAY WITHIN THE DESIGN/ TECHNICAL ARENA - FANTASTIC PROSPECTS AWAIT!

Lighting Design Manager £60-65k+ Neg Basic Plus Co Benefits + Car / Allowance

Essential Responsibilities             

• Design and develop detailed lighting schemes to support sales of solutions. This will primarily cover outdoor projects such as retail assets, hotels, sports lighting, flood lighting, urban schemes including industrial and commercial applications.
• 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 (5) 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
• Management / leadership credentials are a MUST!

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