Graduate Lighting Designer

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At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

We bring projects to life in the cities and communities in which we work, and we’re driven by a set of values and a common purpose — to create, enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments. Innovation is built into every project we manage and every community we serve. We’ll provide you support in an environment that allows you to grow and succeed.

AECOM Lighting Design provides comprehensive, independent lighting design services on a broad range of projects worldwide. We are looking for a self‑motivated, ambitious and creative graduate to work alongside experienced Lighting Designers, Engineers and Architects.

If you have a passion for light and design, work well within a team, and are committed to continuous learning and development, we would like to hear from you.

AECOM is a place where you can put your innovative thinking and business skills into high gear and work alongside other highly intelligent and motivated people. It's a place where you can apply your skills to some of the world's most challenging, interesting and meaningful projects worldwide. It's a place that values the diversity of our areas of practice and our people.

It's what makes AECOM a great place to work and grow. AECOM is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Serpentine Pavilion, London. Lighting design for a temporary feature pavilion in Kensington Gardens commissioned annually since 2000.
• Dubai World Expo, UAE – Between October 2020 and April 2022, Dubai hosted the next World Expo. Our commission included the design of thematic futuristic public‑realm lighting across three precincts.
• Rio Olympic Park and Venues, Brazil. Lighting masterplan, TV broadcast and field‑of‑play lighting, façade and landscape lighting for nine sporting venues.
• Al‑Janoub Stadium, Qatar. Complex field‑of‑play and TV broadcast lighting, façade and VVIP hospitality lighting, and landscape lighting for a 585,000 square‑metre complex.

You will work as part of the Lighting design team helping to develop specialist lighting design packages including reports, 3D models, drawings, calculations, schedules and specifications. Responsibilities will be dependent on your existing skills - training given, where necessary. At all stages of work, mentoring and guidance will be provided by more senior staff.

Lighting Design work involves the following stages:

• Concept Stage – Conception and articulation of lighting ideas, by means of sketches/Photoshop/mood boards/precedent studies and conceptual modelling, usually collated in desktop publishing software such as InDesign.
• Schematic Stage – Development and technical testing of lighting strategies, through 3D‑lighting calculations and visualisations, spatial modelling and drawing production, lighting equipment scheduling and outline specification, usually developed in 2D CAD/3D REVIT and specialist lighting modelling software such as Dialux, Lumion and 3DS Studio.
• Technical Design Stage – Detailed technical design and specification of lighting packages that describe the full…