Job Description

 

Project Centre is a leading design, engineering and landscape architecture consultancy that is passionate about designing places for the people that use them. We offer a range of services focused on providing our clients with the very best planning, design, and engineering solutions. Our approach to integrated design produces award winning results that have won international recognition.

Led by a forward-thinking management team we work together in multi-disciplinary teams that provide services that are well thought-out and sustainable.

Project Centre is part of the NSL group of companies that employs over 5,000 people worldwide.

We are currently looking for an Assistant Lighting Engineer to join our Street Lighting Design Team based at our London office. You will join a vibrant team and work on major prestigious projects within London and across the UK, enabling you to advance your career, whilst giving you the freedom to achieve personal growth and development. We will provide you with the opportunities to enable you to succeed and support you to reach your potential.

Project Centre is a people focused organisation. We care about our colleagues and part of that is to help every employee to achieve a healthy work-life balance. As standard we offer flexible working to everyone, with core hours of 10am till 4pm Monday to Friday, and the ability to work remotely when needed.

If you aspire to really making a difference and want to work with great colleagues whilst advancing your career, then Project Centre could be the place for you.

You will work with the lighting team to help deliver road, urban and amenity lighting design projects. You will assist members of the lighting team to carry out site surveys, produce lighting and electrical designs drawings, reports, and other documentation. The successful candidate will be experienced in using AutoCAD and can create detailed drawings Advantageous for the successful candidate to have working knowledge of Lighting Reality software.

You will be required to take ownership of tasks given to you throughout the entire design and construction process.

• Undertaking surveys, site work and assessments.
• Preparing drawings using AutoCAD.
• Undertaking lighting calculations using Lighting Reality software.
• Assisting with to prepare reports and presentations (feasibility to detailed reports).
• Help to ensure all project files are up to date and comply with the QMS system
• Undertake risk assessments,
• Produce schedules and associated works.
• Assist Project Managers to ensure that deadlines are met and within budget
• Use best practice at all times.

You will help coordinate different design tasks with various clients, contractors, manufacturers, and internal and external design teams

• An electrical or engineering-based qualification
• Affiliate membership of the ILP / IET would be also be advantageous.
• Focused and hard working
• Proactive and willing to learn
• Versatile with the ability to multitask
• Accepts responsibility
• Focused and hard working
• Proactive and willing to learn

 

• Private health cover
• 25 days annual leave per year + Bank Holidays
• Yearly Professional Membership of your choice
• A variety of training programmes supported by PCL
• Professional development and opportunities to progress

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Minimum 3 years’ experience (preferably in a consultancy within a street lighting team) Proficient in using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) Experience of using AutoCAD to create detailed street lighting drawings. Experience of using Lighting Reality software to produce detailed lighting calculations Experience of producing concept, preliminary, and detailed lighting designs Site survey experience