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. Every day we apply our expertise, creativity, and passion to propel communities into the future—join us!

Your Opportunity

Are you a recent graduate or emerging professional lighting designer with a passion for design, sustainability and creative problem solving? Are you seeking an exciting job opportunity where you can experience the field of lighting design within a collaborative multidisciplinary environment? 

Stantec's Lighting Design group offers talented professionals the opportunity to transform visions into designs that illuminate some of the most impressive buildings in the world. We are looking to add a lighting designer with 0 - 4 years of experience to our award-winning Lighting Design group. The candidate would be responsible for working on lighting designs, luminaire selection, lighting controls, energy code compliance and all aspects of lighting design and documentation. The preferred candidate will be a self-starter that enjoys working collaboratively alongside other creative minds and problem solvers.

This position will be hybrid with at least 3-days per week in person. Office location could be in Austin, Austin, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle or Denver.

Your Key Responsibilities

• - Developing lighting design solutions and collaborating with the design team. 


• - Producing lighting layouts in Revit. 


• - Photometric calculations utilizing AGI32 or LightStanza software.


• - Implementing energy code compliant designs and providing code calculations.


• - Lighting control intent, documentation and specifications.


• - Report writing.


• - Developing presentation materials, renderings and graphic packages.


• - Developing luminaire schedules and pulling product specification sheets.


• - Develop and review mock-ups.


• - Collaboration with design team.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• - Can-do approach to project work and assignments.
• - Competent knowledge of and proficiency working in Revit.
• - Familiarity with BIM applications such as SketchUp, Enscape, Navisworks, Lumion, Rhino.
• - Understanding of applicable building and energy codes and ability to apply them for typical project types.
• - Able to apply best practices of appropriate content for lighting drawings (plans, elevations, sections and details).
• - Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• - Ability to research and present design options.
• - Strong prioritization and time-management skills.
• - Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• - Familiarity with InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator Adobe tools.
• - Competent knowledge of and proficiency with photometric calculation software such as LightStanza, AGI32, photometric toolbox, and IES files.

Education and Experience

• - Bachelors' degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. 

• - Entry level new graduates to three years’ experience designing lighting systems and performing lighting calculations for projects.

Preferred Auxiliary Qualifications:

• - Prior experience in the field of lighting design
• - Member or Design member of the IALD or IES EP membership

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.