Senior Lighting Designer
The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?
Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life.
Your Opportunity
Buildings Specialty Lighting practice is expanding and looking for a Senior Lighting Designer to join our growing team. The main purpose of this position is to support the growth of Stantec’s Lighting Design practice and to elevate our visibility within the Seattle and Pacific Northwest markets. You will be an advocate of the practice both internally within Stantec and externally to clients and professional organizations within the region.
You will be familiar with the local market and the project pipeline that feeds the team. You will lead or support positioning and proposal efforts, depending on the scale and complexity of the opportunities. In addition to your regional focus, you will collaborate with our broader team of 15+ dedicated lighting specialists that support our US and Canadian Buildings multidisciplinary practice.
Stantec's Lighting Design team offers talented professionals the opportunity to transform visions into designs that illuminate some of the most impressive buildings in the world. The candidate would be responsible for business development, project management, and leading all lighting design aspects of projects. This includes the development of design solutions, coordination with the design team, owner, and junior staff, overseeing luminaire selection, lighting controls, energy code compliance, documentation, details, construction administration, budgeting, and fee management. The preferred candidate will be a motivated self-starter that enjoys working collaboratively alongside other creative minds and problem solvers in a team setting.
Your Key Responsibilities
Project Involvement - approximately 75% of time.
- Oversee projects and supporting staff, providing mentoring and oversight of quality control.
- Collaborate with and support all partners in design and building including Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainability, Contractors, Owners and Developers to build strong and lasting relationships.
- Attend and lead project design meetings as applicable.
- Develop efficient and accurate solutions to design/integration problems.
- Support project requirements including opinions-of-probable-costs estimates, drawing documentation, and systems design.
- Collaborate across the practice to enhance our commitment to an integrated practice model and the value of design excellence.
- Apply basic technical skills and design documentation processes to produce accurate and timely deliverables.
- Effectively delegate work to production support teams as needed.
Business Development/Marketing approximately 20% of time
- As part of project pursuit teams, be the face of Stantec’s Lighting Design practice in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest region, providing guidance and leadership for our clients.
- Seek and capitalize internal and external opportunities for Lighting Design consulting services.
- Enhance internal and external awareness of Stantec’s Lighting Design service offerings.
- Represent the firm through published articles, public speaking engagements, and attendance at industry and community events and conferences.
- Engage with project proposals and review of scope language and alignment with project fees.
- Showcase Lighting Design expertise through internal and external thought leadership and Awards submissions to enhance Stantec’s position as an industry leader.
Learning/Maintaining and Expanding Technical Skills – approximately 5% of time.
- Join/maintain Industry organizations and vendor relationships related to Lighting Design.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of technologies, integration platforms, and trends in the Lighting market.
- Proactively pursues additional knowledge in related disciplines by attending available in house and external training.
- Drive a culture of innovation and incorporate industry trends including operational efficiencies, user satisfaction, evidence-based design, sustainability, and high-performance lighting design.
Your Capabilities and Credentials
- Professional experience specific to lighting design and control systems in a variety of projects including, but not limited to, commercial office spaces, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, multifamily residential, hospitality, performance venues, airports, and transportation.
- Work with project delivery teams and different Practice Leaders to drive quality and timely delivery of project deliverables to meet and exceed client expectations.
- Familiarity with, and ability to produce, project-related documents, including sketches, graphic packages, and reports to appropriate standards.
- Knowledge of applicable codes and standards applicable to the industry.
- Familiarity with and ability to apply sustainable design principles within projects, including LEED and WELL Building Standard.
- Ability to prepare and review detailed drawings.
- Ability to read, interpret, and act upon information included in specifications, submittals, RFIs, etc.
- Ability to work independently with support from the full Stantec Lighting Design team when needed.
- Regional and national travel is required on occasion.
- This position will report to and be required to work within the Seattle area office. Presence in the local office is required a minimum of three days per week.
- Can-do collaborative team approach to project work and assignments.
- Familiarity with BIM applications such as Revit, SketchUp, Enscape, Navisworks, Lumion, and Rhino.
- Able to apply best practices of appropriate content for lighting drawings (plans, elevations, sections, and details), calculations, lighting controls, and specifications.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong prioritization and time-management skills.
- Competent knowledge of photometric tools such as AGI32 or LightStanza, photometric toolbox, and IES files.
Education and Experience
- Bachelors' degree in related design field or equivalent combination of education and experience. The related experience shall be predominately in architectural lighting design.
- Minimum of 8-years of related work experience, business development, leadership, financial management, and consulting experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.
Preferred Auxiliary Qualifications:
- Professional IALD or IES membership
- LEED or WELL accredited professional
- Certified Lighting Designer (CLD) or Lighting Certified (LC).
This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.
Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other’s talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.