Senior Lighting Engineer

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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 over 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.

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Our Lighting Team is seeking a Senior Lighting Engineer to help deliver major infrastructure projects across the UK and internationally. This role offers an exciting opportunity to for an experienced lighting engineer influence projects from conception through completion.

Each team member has a development plan to provide a clear pathway to personal development and career progression.  The team provides technical leadership of projects throughout the infrastructure lifecycle from feasibility, preliminary and detailed stage designs in some cases through construction.

Our clients are many and varied from the private and public sector working with numerous local authorities, we work with internal client from transport, rail etc.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Develop: Manage engineering tasks, explore subject areas, define project scopes, and create unique solutions.
• Advise: Provide expert technical knowledge and support across multi-disciplinary projects.
•  Design: from conceptual stages to implementation which will include site visits, lighting designs, private cable calculation designs, CAD designs, production of lighting specifications, Bills of Quantities and liaison with DNO suppliers.
• Ensure Quality: Strong efficiencies on quality and budget control on projects, navigate the complexities of transportation and landscape projects, working with clients to address and resolve challenges.
• Collaborate: Build strong relationships with technical teams and clients, leading multi-disciplinary efforts to achieve integrated design solutions.

Come grow with us:

And let's not forget about the perks at AECOM. You'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days. 

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? 

Requirements:

• Relevant Technical Qualifications: Ideally, you possess an ILP Exterior Lighting Diploma or equivalent qualification in a related technical field.
• Proven Design Experience: Demonstrated success in a lighting design environment, with a proactive and creative approach to problem-solving.
• Software Proficiency: Proficient in industry-standard software, including Lighting Reality, AGi32, Dialux, and Amtech Pro Design to create and assess detailed lighting schemes with written specification documents, bill of quantities, lighting reports.
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to confidently and diplomatically engage with staff, colleagues, and clients.
• Project Management: Oversee project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. Manage client expectations and project requirements from inception through to completion.

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, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a 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.

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 [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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