Graduate Lighting Designer

Designs and develops daylighting and artificial lighting solutions for buildings, public spaces and infrastructure projects, combining creative design, technical analysis and sustainable building principles.

What is the Graduate Opportunity? 

Due to the ongoing growth of our portfolio of outstanding projects, our team has an opportunity for expanding and we would like to offer the opportunity to a Graduate Lighting Designer to join the London or Edinburgh studio. Working with Lighting professionals from a variety of backgrounds, you will be in a great environment to advance your skills and career within our friendly, close-knit team. 

We pride ourselves on pushing the boundaries and approaching each project as an opportunity to raise further awareness of the importance of daylight and artificial lighting for humans and the environment with notable links to user well-being, visitor experience, spatial perception and the feeling of security. 

In balancing between artistic and technical requirements, our team of specialists have the knowledge and credibility to offer a unique set of capabilities that will benefit the overall design. Ongoing projects include mixed use commercial developments, cultural & civic buildings, public spaces, sporting venues and Cities iconic infrastructure, offering a rich diversity of projects to be a great part of. 

Our thinking is shaped by imagination and powerful design aspirations. We work collaboratively towards our common goal to reinvent the built environment. We pave the way towards delivering spaces with identity and with sustainable, liveable values at their core. 

Day to day, we work closely with architects and end user clients and working as part of our Lighting team you would have the opportunity to get involved in the work we do in helping clients to interpret their creative aspirations and realise the potential of their developments. 

What would I do? 

• Environmental Impact Assessment work to meet planning requirements considering light spill analysis and overshadowing.

• Sunlight & daylight analysis and design for architects and developers.

• Lighting strategies & master-planning for public realm and cities

• Exterior and interior artificial lighting design from Concept to project Practical Completion (PC)

• Concept visualisation & 3D light modelling.

• Scheme design development, including lighting equipment selection and budget checks.

• Detailed lighting design, including architectural integration and BIM coordination

• Lighting controls design and specification.

• Luminaire performance specification and bespoke design (mock-ups).

• Site monitoring and commissioning, including programming of control systems and focusing of luminaires.

About you: 

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Architecture, Lighting, Electrical Engineering or Architectural Engineering or similar.

• Coursework in lighting or building systems design.

• Interest in the lighting industry with an emphasis on daylighting or architectural lighting design.

• Internship or previous experience at architectural or engineering related firm preferable.

• Proven interest in the built environment.

• Ability to communicate thoughts and technical ideas with sketches and diagrams in an accessible manner.

• Eagerness to learn and work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Graduates at Buro Happold  

When you join Buro Happold you are embedded into an exciting network of engineers and consultants, that supports your career development.  We have a Graduate Connect learning programme that targets specific learning and supports your journey to chartership as well as our Young Employee's Forum that links all our young talent in terms of knowledge sharing, learning and very importantly socialising.