Overview

Affiliated Engineers, Inc. (AEI) is a leading, multidisciplinary consulting engineering firm and collaborative community of over 800 employees who plan, design, and deliver high-performance, innovative, and holistic engineering solutions — positively impacting society and advancing humankind.

Pivotal Lighting Design is the lighting design studio within AEI. Pivotal provides architectural lighting design services specializing in AEI’s core markets as well as project pursuits in areas such as exterior environments, civic, and corporate among others.

We have a great opportunity for you to join Pivotal in a Lighting Designer II role in our Chapel Hill, NC office. 

Responsibilities

Here’s why we need you:

In this role, you will be working with senior lighting designers, supporting the design and documentation process from concepts through construction. Job tasks will include: development of presentation boards, illumination and LPD calculations, research of lighting and lighting controls products, documentation of lighting layouts in CAD or Revit, submittal reviews, and project site visits.

Qualifications

Expertise of our most successful Lighting Designer: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Interior or Theatre Design.
• Experience with the lighting design process including fundamental knowledge of luminaire components, lighting controls, computer-generated lighting calculations, and photometry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and AGI. Experience in Adobe InDesign and Photoshop are a plus.

Effective skills to help you flourish:

• Experience in combining personal judgment with a wide variety of data and information to perform and evaluate system calculations and design options.
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills.
• Communicates well with individuals at all levels in the organization and project partners.
• Ability to anticipate design work, and to delegate and balance work for others.
• Curiosity to continue the learning process by attending in-house seminars and continuing education opportunities outside the office.
• Strong spoken and written communications skills.
• Excellent organization and time management skills.
• Motivation focused on client outcomes.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
• Effective working individually and within team environments, both in-person and virtual.

Our dedication to you: 

• AEI passionately invests in our brilliant talent by allowing for personal and professional growth through supporting clients like NASA; the National Institutes of Health and Cone Health System; the US Department of Homeland Security and US Department of Energy; and Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology.
• Our flexible and collaborative work environment demonstrates our dedication to employee appreciation and collective commitment to excellence.
• We provide the opportunity to serve the greater good of humanity through work on cutting-edge, state-of-the-art projects like Promega Corporation’s Kornberg Center, The University of Arizona’s Biomedical Sciences Partnership Building, AbbVie’s West Coast Oncology Hub, and BioMed Realty’s Gateway of Pacific.
• Our culture encourages professional development while adhering to a set of core values that drive company and team decisions. Our commitment to these values – innovation and expertise, integrity, communication, quality, responsibility, opportunity, and growth – informs both project decisions and behavior amongst colleagues and clients
• An exceptional benefits package (health, dental, vision) and a year-end bonus based on company profits, individual responsibility, and performance.

We provide the tools and a support system to ensure a thriving career. If this environment and opportunity to work on world-changing projects align with your goals, we would be thrilled to meet you. 

Come and collaborate with us!

To be considered, apply online at https://aeieng.com/about/careers/.

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