Lighting Designer 3

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