Senior Lighting Designer
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Job overview
The Senior Lighting Designer supports or manages team members and serves as a project manager, with work focused primarily on project management and partly on design. The role translates design intent into project deliverables, manages project teams and client relationships, and contributes to office coordination and firm initiatives. Project delivery is carried out with guidance from an Associate or Principal.
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Full job description
This job was posted by https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov : For more information, please see: https://illinoisjoblink.illinois.gov/jobs/13700906 \ Supports and/or manages the work of 1 or more team members, is a project manager, has some input on relevant (local) office decisions, and is becoming a leader in their respective office. As a designer, taking the design intent and turning it into the work product. 20% designer, 80% project manager. Achieving Results Project Responsibilities - Reviews monthly fee drafts with Project Manager/Associate/Principal - Understands how to apply authorized scope of work to tasks and meet deadlines - Manages agendas, meeting minutes, and regular project status communications - Develops technical skills appropriate to area of expertise and continually improves skills and knowledge through supplemental education, seminars, etc. - Capable of full delivery of a project from start to finish with team / ownership of all associated tasks, but does this with the guidance of an Associate or Principal - Supports and assists in managing the team to produce work efficiently and profitably - Creating labor hour budgets for projects relative to work they have generated or as needed {=html} - Ability to multi-task and establish priorities - Reviews deliverables prior to issue based on QA/QC procedures - Exhibits expertise or desire to specialize in a specific lighting project type or application and manages those types of projects (Practice Leader Group PLG) Working with Clients Client Responsibilities - Develops good client and/or related business relationships resulting in client satisfaction and continued loyalty from that client - Enhance HLBs value to the client and promote the firm - Uses communication tools to manage client expectations Working with Teammates and Managers Management Responsibilities - Exhibits flexibility and cooperation with teammates - Manage and / or support team effectively - Manages their work and shows ability to prioritize time of others in the team - Starting to understand good framework for resolving issues - Interfaces among the principals, design/technical staff and business team as needed - Has a leadership role in office-wide coordination of resources and staff HLBs Corporate Culture and Values Responsibilities to HLB initiatives - Participation in and contribution to procedures and environment that are in the best interest of the firm - Participation in recruiting and retaining efforts - Represents the firm in a professional manner - Participation in Designing Our Future/HLB 10:10 Vision, C2Q initiatives - Reinforce HLB values Artistry, Curiosity, Balance, Integrity, Legacy - Looks for opportunities to collaborate with other HLB offices on project, DOF, business workgroup avenues in a meaningful way
How this job compares
Set against the 23,088 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$104–160K/yr550 salary ranges
- Illinois median$50–73/hr36 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 677 open Project Manager jobs in Illinois and 23,088 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (19,891 postings).
- Education
- 12,579 of the 23,088 open Project Manager jobs (54%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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