Senior lighting designer

Brilliant Lighting; Thirsk; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee ownership

Private health insurance

Holidays increase with long service

Job summary

Brilliant Lighting in Thirsk, UK, seeks an experienced Senior Lighting Designer to lead high-end residential, heritage, and hospitality projects. You will manage client relationships, drive design excellence, and mentor team members while helping shape the studio's direction.

Based in Thirsk, this full-time role supports hybrid working across the Midlands/North and occasional international projects. A UK driving licence and right to work in the UK are essential, with remuneration based on

Qualifications

• Senior lighting design capability with strong technical proficiency.
• Experience leading client relationships from first contact to handover.
• Proven ability to manage and mentor junior design staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead client relationships from initial contact to project handover.
• Develop creative and technically excellent lighting designs aligned with client taste and budget.
• Collaborate with architects, interior designers and site teams to integrate designs on site.
• Manage and train less experienced team members and support delivery teams.
• Develop and deepen relationships with architects, interior designers, and suppliers.
• Ensure design and budgeting decisions align with client finances and project profitability.
• Lead in shaping company direction and key decisions.

Skills

Lighting design

Leadership

Project management

Attention to detail

English fluency

Driving licence

English proficiency

Proactive mindset

Tools

AutoCAD

DIALux

Rhino

SketchUp

Photoshop

Job description

Brilliant Lighting is seeking a senior lighting designer to join its team in Thirsk, UK.

Brilliant Lighting are seeking an experienced lighting designer to fill a senior position and help shape the direction of our award-winning team. We are a leading lighting independent lighting design consultancy and a Diamond level Lutron lighting controls dealer. We work on highly prestigious projects across the UK and abroad, primarily in the high-end residential, heritage and hospitality markets. Clients include The National Trust, Hever Castle, Michelin-starred restaurants and many high-net-worth individuals.

We are looking for a senior lighting designer with a strong track record of delivering in similar high-end and design-led markets. As well as excellent design skills the ideal candidate will have strong client and team management skills, managing client relationships from initial contact to handover, and managing other members of our team. This is also a commercial role, and you’ll help build on initial enquiries, improve project conversion and develop new business relationships with key industry stakeholders.

It’s also an exciting opportunity to join a small team and help shape its direction. We seek to continually improve what we do and how we do it, and the senior team drive this forward.

The role would suit a candidate who is already operating at a senior level within a lighting design consultancy, or who has a proven track record demonstrating their potential to operate at a senior level.

The role is full-time and wide-ranging. It will include:

• managing relationships with clients, from initial contact to project completion
• developing creative and technically excellent designs that align with the clients taste and budget
• working with wider project design and site team members (eg; architects, interior designers, electricians) to ensure our designs are beautifully integrated into the wider project, and delivered on the ground
• managing and training less experienced team members, and working with our wider project delivery team
• developing and deepening relationships with our wider networks, eg; of architects and interior designers
• developing and deepening relationships with our supplier base
• ensuring that project design and budgeting decisions are made with our and our clients finances in mind
• playing a leading role in ensuring that projects are delivered profitably to very happy clients
• inputting in to company direction and key decisions

Core requirements to be considered for the post are:

• creative lighting design skills underpinned by technical excellence
• competency with AutoCAD and DIALux, plus additional related software such as Rhino, SketchUp and Photoshop
• strong inter-personal and leadership skills
• track record of managing other people (whether direct reports or not)
• organisational skills, attention to detail and being a ‘completer finisher’ are essential, but you should also know when to apply the 80:20 rule
• a proactive approach, good memory, strong work ethic and a desire to learn and get stuck in
• ability to thrive in a fast-paced small team environment – with the ambiguity that that sometimes entails
• willingness and ability to be on project sites when required
• valid UK driving licence and vehicle
• fluent English
• a permanent right to live and work in the UK. This is essential; please only apply if you have it

The role is based out of our offices in Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Projects are generally in the Midlands/North of England but may be in the South or abroad. Subject to business requirements the team are also able to work from home some of the time.

Remuneration dependent on experience.

Other benefits include:

• Brilliant Lighting is an employee-owned business (through an Employee Ownership Trust), which puts team engagement, company values and culture at the forefront of key business decisions. Subject to business finances, employees can share in the success of the business
• private health insurance
• holidays increase with long service

Brilliant Lighting, Unit nine Thirsk Industrial Park, Severfield Close, Thirsk, YO7 3BX.