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About the Role
Liaise with colleagues within the Lighting and Energy Solutions team, wider multi-disciplinary design teams, stakeholders, and clients. Produce detailed design layouts, engineering drawings, and support documentation. Prepare feasibility reports, technical notes, optioneering reports, and specifications. Engage with manufacturers and coordinate with contractors, including site support and responding to RFIs and TQs. Complete non-intrusive site visits for lighting assessments and site clearance drawings. Support project proposals and track progress against milestones and budgets. Liaise with Local Authority clients and build strong working relationships. Analyze client briefs and offer expert guidance. Assist and guide Early Career Professionals. Represent WSP in the lighting industry, fostering relationships and driving business development.
Responsibilities
- Liaise with colleagues within the Lighting and Energy Solutions team, wider multi-disciplinary design teams, stakeholders and clients.
- Production of detailed design layouts, engineering detailed drawings and support documentation in accordance with WSPs Quality Assurance and client requirements.
- Preparation of feasibility reports and technical notes, optioneering reports and specifications.
- Engagement with luminaire, column, controls and electrical manufacturers
- Co-ordination with contractors including site support, responding to RFI’s and TQ’s.
- Completion of non-intrusive site visits to support the development of lighting assessments and site clearance drawings.
- Support with the development of project proposals and progress against agreed programme milestones and budget constraints.
- Liaison with Local Authority clients, assist in building strong working relationship with clients in the Local Government Sector.
- Analyse/Evaluate Clients briefs and offer expert guidance and tailored support.
- Assist and guide Early Career Professionals on their career journeys
- Represent WSP within the lighting industry, fostering industry relationships and driving business development.
Requirements
- Proficient in the use of Lighting Reality or Dialux lighting design software and AutoCAD
- A strong understanding of external lighting standards, guidance, legislation and regulations
- Have a good general awareness and understanding of electrical design and lighting maintenance operations
- Can demonstrate competency and experience in lighting design from conception through to issue for construction
- A good understanding of central management systems
- Can work independently, and as part of a team having excellent communication and organisational skills
- Capable of coaching and developing junior members of the team
- Experience in working within the Local Government or Strategic Road Network sectors
- A good knowledge of external lighting products
- Have a membership of a relevant professional organisation, having achieved EngTech registration with the Engineering Council and actively working towards IEng status
Skills
- Lighting Reality
- Dialux
- AutoCAD
- External lighting standards
- Electrical design
- Lighting maintenance operations
- Lighting design
- Central management systems
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills
- Coaching
- Developing junior members
- Local Government sector experience
- Strategic Road Network sector experience
- External lighting products knowledge
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Part-time
- Flexible working arrangements
Experience Level
- EngTech registration with the Engineering Council
- Actively working towards IEng status
Benefits
- Hybrid working policy (work from home two days a week)
- Professional membership support
- Mentorship for professional membership upgrades
- Regular CPD sessions
- Access to advanced training programs
- Thrive programme for health and wellbeing
- Virtual GP service
- Reasonable workplace adjustments
- Gymflex scheme (up to 40% off annual gym memberships)
- Comprehensive menopause support package
- WSP My Hour (one hour each day for personal activities)
- Option to purchase additional leave
- Ability to use bank holiday entitlement flexibly
- Supportive environment for development, training, mentoring, and Chartership
About the Company
- WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms.
- Our passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion.
- With over 11,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
- We have a global team of more than 69,000 employees.
- We are a Disability Confident leader.
Equal Opportunity
- We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.
- As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.