Lighting Designer ( Leeds )

Superb opening for an ambitious lighting designer - Early applications strongly advised!

Lighting Designer ( Leeds ) £30k+ Neg Basic + Benefits 

Role Summary:

The Lighting Designer works to support strategic account sales opportunities with compliant lighting layouts to meet the clients lighting and payback requirements.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops detailed lighting schemes to support sales of solutions. This will primarily cover industrial, commercial and retail applications
• Apply design software, to produce lighting designs for indoor & exterior applications, to industry standards and customer specifications
• Works to develops designs with input from application engineers / sales team / customers during the project
• Applies relevant industry and segment guidelines, standards and regulatory trends and ensures the commercial team are conversant with them
• Collaborates on product and project presentation to End users, Specifiers, partners (ESCOs), Contractors, Engineers and Architectural offices
• Creates best in class presentation of the lighting solutions proposed for clients
• Interacts with the stakeholders to ensure the lighting effect meets the customers and regulatory requirements.
• Implements design changes (if required)
• Supports lighting payback calculations (ROI) on a project by project basis in order to meet customer expectations.
• Travel to client locations ( where applicable) to educate, direct and coordinate design of illuminated spaces.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Relevant industry qualifications in Lighting Design
• Experience of delivering lighting design projects
• Fully conversant with Relux or Dialux Software, distinctly advantageous
• Knowledge of industry organizations and understanding of standards influencing industry designs
• 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)
• Skilled in AutoCAD (Drawing manipulation and output) is essential
• Desire/drive to improve knowledge and skills
• Organised, attentive to detail
• Understanding of the use of Photoshop is an advantage but not essential

Fantastic lighting role with a superb team environment!