Lighting Designer

Lighting Designer / Graduate Lighting Designer

London (and surrounding areas) / Bristol / Manchester / Oxford / Cambridge

About us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of specialist, engineering, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Hoare Lea has joined Tetra Tech’s High Performance Buildings Group, a global alliance of building services firms.

Hoare Lea Lighting

Hoare Lea’s Lighting Design team is responsible for delivering world leading lighting design across most sectors.  We work with artificial light and daylight and provide strategic and lighting impact services to support biodiversity and protect our night sky. We care deeply about creating spaces that are considerate of our planet and environmental impacts, whilst also spaces that people love to use. We are a collaborative team, offering a wealth of career enhancement opportunities.

Our expertise combines creativity with innovative thinking, ensuring that technical issues are balanced with aesthetic and visual criteria.

We have an exciting new opportunity for Graduate Lighting Designer / Lighting Designer to join our firm to support an extensive portfolio of exciting projects across the UK (and wider).

Why work for us?

You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.

You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.

You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The role

As a graduate / lighting designer, your day-to-day tasks will vary, as we’ll expose you to all aspects of our work. Initially you will be asked to assist more senior lighting designers in all their tasks and develop your own skills/tools to produce and communicate lighting design in full, from concept to completion.

You will be, attending meetings and participating in design conversations. Producing conceptual information, drawings and defining lighting and controls specifications. You will be also asked to use creative and technical software to visualise spaces and prove lighting concepts technically. You will attend and assist site related activities such as light measurements, testing, snagging, commissioning, focusing, programming.  You may be working on creative lighting design, daylight or lighting impact projects.

Communication is a constant feature of the role - we regularly liaise with project teams, meet clients, or end users, and attend collaborative meetings.

What we are looking for

• An expected or achieved Postgraduate bachelor’s or master’s degree, or demonstratable experience in relevant creative or technical roles.
• Some knowledge of drawing and modelling tools and approaches such as CAD and BIM (Revit) would be beneficial.
• Good experience of 3D modelling packages such as Rhino 3D.
• A good and developing understanding of creative design tools such as Photoshop, In Design, Illustrator, or similar.
• Excellent communication skills are crucial along with analytical and organisational skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment and independently.
• A friendly, ambitious, and confident individual with a flexible and resilient approach.

Our benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.

Core benefits

• Private medical scheme
• Life Assurance
• Income protection
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 with length of service
• Contributory pension scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Paternity, Maternity & Shared Parental Leave
• Season Ticket Loans
• Professional membership subscription
• Flexitime

Flexible benefits

• 9-day fortnight – the firm offers all employees the option to work a 9-day fortnight
• Hybrid Working – activity-based approach
• Employee stock purchase plan – a voluntary program which allows eligible employees to purchase Tetra Tech common stock at a 15% discount
• Holiday buy & sell up to 5 days
• Study Assistance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Sabbatical Leave
• Other flexible benefits include gym and retail discounts, travel & dental insurance and GAYE (Give as you Earn)
• Flexible working - We’re happy to discuss flexible working.There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to.Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage

How to apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to being a place where underrepresented individuals and communities are not just included, but where marginalised knowledge and experience is valued, amplified, and harnessed. So, we strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, people of the Global Majority, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and those from all other underrepresented or marginalised groups. To learn more about our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, see our DEI strategy.

Adjustments and accommodations

If there are adjustments or accommodations that we can put in place to ensure you can participate and give your best at any stage of the recruitment process (whether relating to disability, neurodivergence, or anything else) please let us know.

Flexible working

We are committed to enabling a healthy work-life balance for all employees. So, we welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements to suit their particular needs and lifestyle, including part-time, term-time-only, and remote working.

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