What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Lighting Designer position at WSP?
This Opportunity
Join our Lighting Design team and be a part of a growing organization that meets client needs and solves complex challenges. Our devotion to teamwork allows us to build communities and expand our skylines. Here at WSP, anything is within our reach and yours as a WSP employee. Come join us and help shape the future!
WSP is currently initiating a search for a full-time Lead Lighting Designer to join our Arlington, VA office.
The selected candidate will work with a team of lighting design experts in the WSP lighting studio who provide lighting solutions for commercial, healthcare, hotel, civic, cultural, stadiums, and educational facilities. The studio is dedicated to exploring and enhancing the user experience. By collaborating closely with client and design teams, as well as integrating with other specialty groups within WSP, the lighting studio provides inspired lighting solutions that leverage all project disciplines. From concept design to construction, the lighting team works closely with top-tier clients, internationally recognized Architects, Interior Designers, and Owners providing innovative, yet practical, lighting solutions – creating spaces that are inspiring, sustainable, and future-ready.
Your Impact
- Manage day-to-day correspondence with project teams both internally and externally to coordinate and lead tasks amongst team members to meet upcoming project deadlines.
- Assist with developing and implementing lighting design concepts through all phases of the design and construction process.
- Assist the National Practice and East Region lead with draft preparation of proposals and additional service requests when needed.
- Review and/or prepare concept renderings, imagery, sketches, and presentations.
- Review and/or develop lighting layouts prepared in Revit or CAD
- Review and/or perform lighting calculations, analysis, and rendering studies and use results to inform project decisions.
- Develop luminaire and lighting control specifications and schedules.
- Perform architectural and multi-disciplinary coordination including coordination of relevant mounting details.
- Review of light fixture submittals/samples and preparation of RFI responses during the Construction phase of projects.
- Review of light fixture installations and assistance with field aiming sessions and preparation of field observation reports.
- Participation in and coordination of light fixture mock-ups.
- Preparation of light fixture budgets and cost analysis to meet project budget goals.
- Implement sustainable lighting design strategies and demonstrate code compliance.
- Attend team and project meetings and interface with internal specialty groups.
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
- 7-10 years of experience in Lighting Design
- Bachelor's Degree in Architectural Engineering, Interior Design, Architecture, or Lighting Design
- Strong creative design skills
- Knowledge of sustainable design strategies
- Ability to work efficiently and collaboratively in a team environment.
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills.
- Strong attention to detail and highly organized
- Self-starter, ability to work independently, as well as manage multiple tasks and multiple team members’ work.
- Proficiency in Revit, AutoCAD, MS Office Suite, Adobe Suite, and AGI32 or similar lighting software
- Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, and resources; conduct and adhere to WSP's Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
- Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety, and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to render by hand.
- Ability to render using Photoshop, Enscape, 3DS Max and InDesign
- Working knowledge of energy codes, LEED and WELL Building Certification
- Achieve discipline certification or license.
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation:
Expected Salary (all locations): $118,000 - $160,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
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WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Salary : $118,000 - $160,000
