Balfour Beatty plc
Street Lighting Designer
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About The Role
Location: Ringmer Depot, East Sussex
Shape the future of safer, smarter streets
At Balfour Beatty, we deliver the critical infrastructure that powers communities and keeps people moving. We are looking for a talented Street Lighting Designer to join our team and play a key role in designing innovative, sustainable, and energy-efficient lighting solutions for highways, public spaces, and urban environments.
This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse range of infrastructure projects, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop technically robust designs that enhance safety, improve efficiency, and support the transition to smarter, greener networks.
What you'll be doing
Responsibilities
As a Street Lighting Designer, you'll be responsible for producing high-quality lighting designs and supporting projects throughout their lifecycle. Key responsibilities include:
- Designing street lighting schemes for highways, roads, junctions, pedestrian areas, and public spaces.
- Producing lighting calculations using industry-standard software such as Lighting Reality, DIALux evo, or AGi32.
- Preparing detailed lighting layouts, specifications, technical reports, and construction drawings using CAD software.
- Ensuring designs comply with relevant industry standards, client requirements, and health and safety legislation.
- Selecting suitable lighting columns, luminaires, brackets, foundations, and control systems.
- Undertaking site surveys and assessments to evaluate existing infrastructure and project constraints.
- Working closely with highways, civil, electrical, and utility engineers to coordinate design delivery.
- Supporting planning applications, technical approvals, and construction activities by providing technical advice and responding to design queries.
- Promoting sustainable and energy-efficient solutions, including LED lighting, smart controls, and carbon reduction initiatives.
- Maintaining accurate design documentation and supporting continuous improvement across projects.
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Who we're looking for
Essential
- Degree, HNC or HND in Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience in street lighting or highway electrical design.
- Knowledge of relevant street lighting standards and regulations.
- Proficiency in AutoCAD or similar CAD software.
- Experience using lighting design software.
- Understanding of electrical distribution and highway infrastructure.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and work to deadlines.
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to project sites and client locations as required.
Desirable
- SMSTS or equivalent health and safety qualification.
- G39 and 214 Safe Isolation certification.
- Highways Electrical Association (HEA) Approved Person Card.
- Knowledge of CDM 2015 Regulations and designer responsibilities.
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
Why join us?
Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty Living Places works in long-term partnerships with local authorities to create great places to live, work and play. We actively engage with local people to understand the needs of the communities we work in and shape the places where local economies can thrive and grow. As a leader in sustainable working, diversity, and social value, we use our expertise to bring real, positive change for our customers.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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