Senior Lighting Designer

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Our Buildings practice keeps people at its heart, recognizing that our shared journey forward is shaped by the meaningful and responsive places we design. From iconic designs to monumental groundbreakings, join us to bring transformational building solutions to life.

Your Opportunity

Buildings Specialty Lighting practice is expanding and looking for a Senior Lighting Designer to join our growing team. The main purpose of this position is to support the growth of Stantec’s Lighting Design practice. You will be the advocate of the practice both internally within Stantec and externally to clients and professional organizations within the region. In addition to your regional focus, you will collaborate with our broader team of 20+ dedicated lighting specialists that support our US and Canadian Buildings multidisciplinary practice.

Stantec’s Lighting Design team transforms visionary concepts into built environments that illuminate some of the world’s most remarkable buildings. We’re seeking a motivated self‑starter who will support large, multidisciplinary projects and lead all lighting design aspects of smaller assignments, including developing design solutions; coordinating with design teams, owners, and internal support staff; overseeing luminaire selection and lighting control intent; ensuring energy code compliance; producing documentation and details; managing construction administration; and stewarding budgets and fees. The ideal candidate thrives in a collaborative studio setting alongside other creative minds and problem‑solvers and brings a passion for design excellence.

This is a hybrid position with a minimum of 3-days per week in the local Boston, Philadelphia, NYC, Washington Northeast offices.

Your Key Responsibilities

Project Involvement - approximately 90% of time.

• Develop and implement lighting design solutions on projects of various types.

• Collaborate and communicate effectively within the lighting design discipline and broader project teams.

• Collaborate with and support all partners in design including architecture, Interior designers, engineering, sustainability, contractors, owners and developers to build strong and lasting relationships.

• Attend and lead project design meetings as applicable.

• Develop efficient and accurate solutions to design/integration problems.

• Collaborate across the practice to enhance our commitment to an integrated practice model and the value of design excellence.

• Drive a culture of innovation and incorporate industry trends including operational efficiencies, user satisfaction, evidence-based design, sustainability, and high-performance lighting design.

• Apply basic technical skills and design documentation processes to produce accurate and timely deliverables.

• Effectively delegate work to production support teams as needed.

Business Development/Marketing approximately 5% of time

• Be a champion of Stantec’s Lighting Design practice in Seattle providing guidance and leadership for our project teams and clients.

• Seek internal and external opportunities for Lighting Design consulting services.

• Enhance internal and external awareness of Stantec’s Lighting Design service offerings.

• Support project proposals and review of scope language and alignment with project fees.

• Represent the firm through published articles, public speaking engagements, and attendance at industry and community events and conferences.

• Showcase Lighting Design expertise through internal and external thought leadership and Awards submissions to enhance Stantec’s position as an industry leader.

Learning/Maintaining and Expanding Technical Skills – approximately 5% of time.

• Engage with industry organizations and maintain vendor relationships related to Lighting Design.

• Develop and maintain knowledge of technologies, integration platforms, and trends in the Lighting market.

• Proactively pursue additional knowledge in related disciplines by attending available in-house and relevant external training.

• Drive a culture of innovation and incorporate industry trends including sustainability, high performance lighting design and energy strategies into daily practice.

Your Capabilities and Credentials

• Professional experience specific to lighting design and control systems in a variety of projects including, but not limited to, commercial offices, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, hospitality, performance venues, industrial, advanced manufacturing, airports, and transportation.

• Work with project delivery teams to drive quality and timely delivery of project deliverables to meet and exceed client expectations.

• Familiarity with, and ability to produce, project-related documents, including sketches, graphic packages, and reports to appropriate standards.

• Competent knowledge of and proficiency working in Revit.

• Knowledge of applicable codes and standards applicable to the industry.

• Familiarity with and ability to apply sustainable and human centric design principles within projects, including LEED and WELL Building Standard.

• Ability to prepare and review detailed drawings.

• Ability to read, interpret, and act upon information included in specifications, submittals, RFIs, etc.

• Ability to work independently with full remote support from the Stantec Lighting Design group when needed.

• Regional travel is required on occasion.

• Can-do collaborative team approach to project work and assignments.

• Familiarity with BIM applications such as SketchUp, Enscape, and Navisworks.

• Able to apply best practices of appropriate content for lighting drawings (plans, elevations, sections, and details), calculations, lighting control intent, and specifications.

• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong prioritization and time-management skills.

• Competent knowledge of photometric tools such as AGI32 or LightStanza, photometric toolbox, and IES files.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in related design field or equivalent combination of education and experience. The related experience shall be predominately in architectural lighting design.

• Minimum of 6-years of related work experience and design consulting experience; or an equivalent combination of education and related experience.

Preferred Auxiliary Qualifications

• IALD or IES membership

• LEED or WELL accredited professional

Typical office environment working with computers. Hybrid work arrangements may be considered. Field work may include exposure to the elements including inclement weather.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

Stantec is a place where the best and brightest come to build on each other's talents, do exciting work, and make an impact on the world around us. Join us and redefine your personal best.

Pay Range:

• Locations in WA, DC & Various CA, MA areas-$79,400.00 - $115,200.00 Annually

• Locations in NYC & CA (Bay Area) & NJ (RP)-$84,800.00 - $123,000.00 Annually

Primary Location: United States | MA | Boston
Organization: BC-2808 Buildings-US Northeast BSS
Employee Status: Regular
Business Justification: New Position
Travel: No
Schedule: Full time
Job Posting: 02/02/2026 02:02:48
Req ID: 1004039

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