About this opportunity
EwingCole lists this Lighting Designer 3 opportunity in philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Description
EwingCole is a nationally recognized architecture, engineering, interior design and planning firm with offices across the country. Our multi-disciplinary practice is built on the core values of professional excellence, design quality and collaboration. 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 EwingCole
Generous 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.
EwingCole does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or agencies. Any resume submitted by an agency without a prior written agreement will be deemed the property of EwingCole and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired.
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Worksite address
philadelphia, PA, 19117, US
Who can apply
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