Lighting Designer 3

EwingCole • Philadelphia, PA

4h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, Architectural Engineering, Architecture, Interior Design or Theater
• 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

Nice To Haves

• LC Certified or IALD Certification encouraged

Responsibilities

• Guiding the modeling and creation of drawings used to accurately deliver projects, reviews key project decisions with Discipline leadership
• Understanding the software analysis to ensure accuracy
• Applying an understanding of construction methods to building design, including advanced integration of lighting systems and controls across disciplines
• Progressing project work from schematic design through construction documentation, ensuring design and production efforts are completed within the project schedule and budget
• Ensuring project designs and construction documents comply with applicable lighting, energy, and emergency lighting requirements
• Promoting project quality through adherence to and the ongoing improvement of the company standards applying lighting design best practices and industry standards
• Conceiving projects with rigor to resolve energy and environmental impacts and meet sustainability goals
• 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
• Selecting lighting and control systems and identifying appropriate applications that consider the lifecycle of the products and system performance
• Managing the construction phase through responsive coordination with the builder to maintain design intent and contractual requirements
• Performing and reviewing lighting calculations to inform fixture selection and layout
• Analyzing construction cost estimates for alignment of design intent and approved budgets and develops alternatives for controlling project costs
• Conveying lighting design intent, technical decisions, and cost implications to clients, consultants, and project teams, including leading client presentations and discussions
• Defining the design intent for material qualitative requirements and performance standards to ensure contractually enforceable and accurate representation of the design
• 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

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level