Graduate Lighting Designer (Leeds) - Immediate start

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Company Description

At AECOM, we\’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world\’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world\’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We\’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

We bring projects to life in the cities and communities in which we work, and we’re driven by a set of values and a common purpose — to create, enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments. Innovation is built into every project we manage and every community we serve. We’ll provide you support in an environment that allows you to grow and succeed.

AECOM Lighting Design provides comprehensive, independent lighting design services on a broad range of projects worldwide. We are looking for a self‑motivated, ambitious and creative graduate to work alongside experienced Lighting Designers, Engineers and Architects.

If you have a passion for light and design, work well within a team, and are committed to continuous learning and development, we would like to hear from you.

AECOM is a place where you can put your innovative thinking and business skills into high gear and work alongside other highly intelligent and motivated people. It\’s a place where you can apply your skills to some of the world\’s most challenging, interesting and meaningful projects worldwide. It\’s a place that values the diversity of our areas of practice and our people. It\’s what makes AECOM a great place to work and grow. AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Projects the Lighting Team Has Been Involved In

• Serpentine Pavilion, London. Lighting design for a temporary feature pavilion in Kensington Gardens commissioned annually since 2000.
• Dubai World Expo, UAE – Between October 2020 and April 2022, Dubai hosted the next World Expo. Our commission included the design of thematic futuristic public‑realm lighting across three precincts.
• Rio Olympic Park and Venues, Brazil. Lighting masterplan, TV broadcast and field‑of‑play lighting, façade and landscape lighting for nine sporting venues.
• Al‑Janoub Stadium, Qatar. Complex field‑of‑play and TV broadcast lighting, façade and VVIP hospitality lighting, and landscape lighting for a 585,000 square‑metre complex.

Job Responsibilities

You will work as part of the Lighting design team helping to develop specialist lighting design packages including reports, 3D models, drawings, calculations, schedules and specifications. Responsibilities will be dependent on your existing skills – training given, where necessary. At all stages of work, mentoring and guidance will be provided by more senior staff.

Lighting Design work involves the following stages:

• Concept Stage – Conception and articulation of lighting ideas, by means of sketches/Photoshop/mood boards/precedent studies and conceptual modelling, usually collated in desktop publishing software such as InDesign.
• Schematic Stage – Development and technical testing of lighting strategies, through 3D‑lighting calculations and visualisations, spatial modelling and drawing production, lighting equipment scheduling and outline specification, usually developed in 2D CAD/3D REVIT and specialist lighting modelling software such as Dialux, Lumion and 3DS Studio.
• Technical Design Stage – Detailed technical design and specification of lighting packages that describe the full functionality and performance of complex lighting systems, usually produced in CAD/REVIT supported by calculations and specification‑writing software.
• Construction Stage – Supporting the construction team in understanding the design and envisaged implementation, both on site and remotely.
• Final Commissioning Stage – Final focusing of luminaires and commissioning of lighting control systems, varying by project.
• Post‑Completion Stage – Production of after‑care and maintenance documentation to support the client/end user.

Qualifications

• Degree in design or an engineering subject such as Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Product Design or Virtual Environment Modelling, plus a strong interest in light and lighting. Specialist training in lighting is a plus.
• Strong interest in lighting or previous work experience in a lighting design consultancy or engineering practice with artificial lighting design. Daylight design/analysis skills are also beneficial.
• Current portfolio that demonstrates your interest in lighting.
• Enthusiasm to learn or ability to use lighting design and calculation tools already; e.g. DiaLux, AutoCAD, Revit, Sketch‑up, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, Microsoft Office. Knowledge of Rhino, 3DS Max and other 3D design tools or graphic software would be advantageous.
• Ability to produce lighting calculations and design drawings, sketches or reports.
• Creative, independent, self‑motivated individual with the ability to work independently and take ownership of work.
• Proactive about professional development and demonstrate a desire to continuously improve as a designer.
• Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; a team player.
• Proven ability (demonstrated in education) to accept responsibility, meet deadlines and work as part of a design team.
• Capable of making decisions, seeking advice and operating proactively to meet client expectations.
• Results‑driven, motivated, clear and effective communicator at all levels.
• Previous work experience in a lighting design consultancy or engineering practice with artificial lighting design would be advantageous.

You must have the right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for these roles.

Please upload a copy of or include a link to your portfolio if you have one.

Additional Information

We’ll provide you with all the tools and support you need to work towards your professional development ambitions. You will be assigned a line manager to support and guide your development.

There will be on‑the‑job technical development and classroom training where required, and the opportunity to work on live client projects with significant multi‑disciplinary exposure.

Training will be provided in both discipline‑specific and general office/business skills, with REVIT being a key piece of software where focused training will be provided following an initial assessment to be undertaken as part of the recruitment process.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long‑term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public‑ and private‑sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges.

Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, equity, diversity and inclusion and commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID: REF52566W

Business Line: B&P – Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Design

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Seniority level

• Internship

Employment type

• Temporary

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Architecture and Planning
• Civil Engineering
• Construction

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