Graduate Lighting Designer

Atelier Ten are an innovative multidisciplinary firm of lighting designers, environmental design consultants and building services engineers, focused on delivering high-quality, award-winning building services and sustainable design within the built environment sector. Known to be progressive, we’re spurred by the challenge of doing more with less.

The integral nature of our work makes it invisible. So, at its most successful, it simply works.

The London lighting design practice are an award-winning team with a portfolio spanning a wide variety of sectors both in the UK and internationally, including hospitality, commercial, museums, ecclesiastical, cultural & theatres, residential and public realm. You might have seen some of our projects around.

Read more on our website at www.atelierten.com/services/lighting-design/

As part of the SJ Company, Atelier Ten is part of a diverse collective of problem solvers with a global talent pool of 16,000 professionals across more than 120 offices in over 40 countries. This group is dedicated to creating a smart and sustainable future through progressive thinking and creative ideas.

About the role

We are seeking a creative and enthusiastic Graduate Lighting Designer. The role will involve developing skills and experience by working on projects from initial concepts through to completion and commissioning. You’ll be growing by working and learning alongside our team of experienced designers. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is keen to develop a career in lighting.

Team structure & reporting line

Within the Lighting Team, the structure is as follows:

• Group Leader
• Associate
• Senior Designer
• Designer
• Graduate

You would be line managed by someone at a Senior (or above) grade, who would ultimately report to the Group Leader.

What’s the purpose of the role?

As with all built environment consultants, the purpose of the role is ultimately to provide design advice to our clients and collaborators on their projects, at an agreed fee rate which generates a profit for the business. However, within Atelier Ten, it’s not just about the margins. We include “creating a planet-positive impact” and “creative design excellence” when defining success too.

What you will be doing?

Under the guidance of senior designers, you will:

• Develop concept lighting designs and represent these in graphical form
• Produce design reports in Adobe InDesign
• Produce hand sketches and photoshop renders to express concept ideas
• Select luminaires to realise the design concept
• Prepare 3D models for import into lighting calculation software.
• Model and calculate lighting using lighting DialuxEvo
• Produce lighting layout plans in Revit
• Produce lighting tender documentation including schedules and specifications
• Assist with on-site commissioning of lighting installations

Read about what a typical day looks like for our graduates across some of our different disciplines:

Graduate Public Health Engineer- Lucy Bennett

Graduate Mechanical Engineer- Eva Meadowcroft

Graduate Electrical Engineer- Manthan Patel

Graduate Environmental Designer- Agathe Chevee

What we offer?

In return for your expertise, enthusiasm and commitment, you get:

• A competitive salary
• Exciting and varied day to day work as part of a team
• A flexible work environment
• Excellent opportunities for career growth
• Extensive training opportunities
• Private medical insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Company pension
• Life assurance
• Free VDU eye test
• Childcare vouchers

Who are you?

We’re looking for someone with an enthusiasm for lighting with the ability to manage multiple deadlines. You’ll need to work as part of a team as well as having the initiative to work under limited supervision. You’re proactive, self-motivated with strong interpersonal skills and comfortable working with colleagues on all levels.

Qualifications and skills

• A university degree, this would ideally be in Lighting Design or a related discipline (architecture, interior design etc.)
• Experience in AutoCAD and Photoshop
• Good hand sketching skills would be advantageous
• Ability to work in Revit and Rhino is beneficial

What does good look like?

Ultimately, good looks like being a part of delivering incredible and creative design, in a planet and climate-sensitive manner. However, in the early stages of your career, this could be defined by having an open mind to learning the creative, technical, software and hardware-based skills that you will need to succeed in this aspiration. These will need to be complemented by a growing awareness of how to communicate approaches and design ideas, with increasing ability in graphical, presentation and client management skills.

What career progression is possible?

We wish our people to develop their careers through the experiences and opportunities we offer, some of which we have described here:

Career Development – Jessica Glynn

Career Development – Volkan Doda

Career Development – Gabriella Kyriacou

Career Development – Wes Lloyd

Interested?

Please send a cover letter and your CV in PDF format to eoghan.finan@surbanajurong.com

Atelier Ten recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and are committed to embracing and cultivating equity, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applications from talented people with diverse perspectives from all backgrounds and cultures. We recruit, train, compensate and promote employees based on merit and firmly oppose any form of discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. Ensuring an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered to contribute their best is of upmost importance to us at Atelier Ten. Please get in touch if you have any queries or require any adjustments to the selection process.