What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Lighting Designer position at EXP?
At EXP, we’re driven to provide innovative solutions for the world’s built and natural environments. As a team of engineers, architects, designers, scientists, creators and a community of professionals, we bring diverse and talented people together to solve the world’s most complex challenges. Here, you join a team that leverages differences, harnesses their entrepreneurial spirit in an employee-owned company, that believes diversity is what gives us strength, seeks sustainable results and shares ambitions for each other, our clients and the communities we are part of and serve. To be a part of EXP means to have your own experience, while staying connected to a global network of professionals, who believe we are a part of something bigger. Together, we are EXP.
Are you ready to design your future?
Be our next Senior Lighting Designer!
Your work environment at EXP
In this role, you will be a part of the Hospitality, Healthcare, and Entertainment Buildings team, of the Buildings Sector, based the Chicago office with a flexible hybrid work environment.
What a day at EXP has in store for you
- Proficient in the skills of Lighting Designer.
- Ability to provide creatively successful designs that meet the artistic requirements.
- Provides fixture specification.
- Provides custom fixture design and / or selection including hand-drawn sketches.
- Provides conceptual hand-drawn sketches for early design phase submittals.
- Presents conceptual design to client and design team along with Associate Lighting Designer.
- Ability to represent the discipline in creative meetings with design team and clients.
- Ability to create discipline work plan to meet project scope within discipline budget.
- Ability to direct and mentor junior Lighting Designer staff.
- Ability to coordinate with other disciplines.
- Ability to direct programming staff during commissioning to achieve creative intent.
- Ability to offer creative problem solving to challenging issues.
- Ability to travel nationally and internationally as required by project.
What your experience looks like
- 4-6 years of professional experience
- BA, BFA, BAE or MFA with an emphasis in Lighting Design.
- Associate IALD membership preferred.
- REVIT MEP and Auto CAD Proficiency required.
The salary range for this role is $77,000 - $88,000 ($37.00 per hour - $42.00 per hour). Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to competitive pay, we offer a comprehensive benefits package for all full-time employees, including health insurance, vacation time, and 401(k) retirement benefits.
Salary : $37 - $42
