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 Illuminations Lighting and Design wants electricians who are certified, experienced, and/or willing to apprentice and grow under the supervision of a mentor. We have a number of specific lighting and residential electrician jobs for both the serious beginner and seasoned veteran to our industry.
ILD is a leader in the world of lighting and electrical design and is rapidly expanding into the high-end lighting market. We seek top-notch professionals with excellent written and verbal communications skills. The ability to listen and to explain advanced technical concepts in layman’s terms is a definite plus for any lighting electrician candidate, as all of these positions involve extensive consultation with a highly educated and diverse client base.
As our market and spheres of operation continue to expand, we need Houston Texas lighting technicians who can keep pace with our burgeoning growth. Bilingual candidates with a willingness to travel will be given first consideration. Experienced electricians will also be given priority, although we cannot emphasize enough the importance of attitude and a willingness to train under top-notch professionals and company-sponsored seminars in a variety of electrical contracting, home automation, landscape lighting, and commercial lighting technologies.
We have immediate positions to fill as follows:
Journeyman landscape lighting electrician
The ideal journeyman landscape lighting electrician has superb communication and consulting skills combined with technical savvy. This enables the landscape lighting electrician to listen to the “big picture” of what the client wants and works out the technical, logistical, and design details of a landscape lighting system.
Journeymen lighting electricians are innovators as much as they are technicians. They have a keen eye for creative solutions that deliver maximal visual impact and improve the quality of our clients’ lives. They take an action-oriented approach to building systems and getting the job done with results superior to those of our competitors. They also ensure maximum customer satisfaction by following up after the sun goes down to visually inspect their handiwork.
Residential Service Electrician
ILD wants an experienced residential electrician who is proficient in troubleshooting, remodeling and repairing home lighting, wiring and devices sought to serve Houston’s upscale residential market. This position requires a great deal of driving to neighborhoods throughout the Houston area from as far north as Conroe to as far south as Galveston.
A growing client base in the Hill Country is also beginning to blossom with the bluebonnets this year, so residential service electricians with excellent driving records and a willingness to travel as far NW as Austin will be given top consideration.
Residential Apprentice Electrician
ILD seeks experienced apprentice electricians that will assist in custom home wiring, lighting installation, landscape lighting installation, and home electrical panel repair. This is a great opportunity to get started an impeccable lighting and electrical firm that serves Houston’s upscale residential home market and leads the industry in excellence and reputation.
Residential Journeyman Electrician
Illuminations Lighting and Design offers a generous signing bonus to each qualified journeyman electrician. Ideal candidates are experienced journeyman electricians who are proficient in custom home wiring, lighting installation, and/or landscape lighting installation.Electrical Technicians for Home Lighting ControlsILD is looking to hire audio video technicians with job experience of any kind working with Lutron and Vantage control whole lighting systems. This position requires a demonstrated ability to tie advanced lighting design and technology in with home automation systems. While on the job, veteran technicians in electrical design will teach you proprietary skills in fine art lighting, Lutron lighting controls, and computer networking that will hone your skills to expert level in a few short years. We will also show you how to install backup electrical power generators that tie directly into lighting design themes and home automation systems. These are advanced and highly specialized skills you can learn nowhere else but ILD. All electrical construction jobs at ILD require you prove US citizenship, pass a drug Screen and maintain a drug free lifestyle, hold at least a Texas State Apprentice License, and demonstrate proficiency in the safe and expedient use of hand tools. We prefer electricians with experience in electrical service panel upgrades, troubleshooting, and any type of lighting and/or home automation design work. Reliable transportation and a clean driving record are a must due to use of company vehicles for jobs both in Houston and occasionally across Texas Should you qualify for an electrical contracting, service, or design job of any kind at Illuminations Lighting, you will be compensated with a fair, competitive wage reflective of your experience, credentials, reputation, and accomplishments to date. We base salary on merit, and we pay it directly to those who merit a job as an electrical specialist on our team. We offer paid vacations and excellent benefits as well as ongoing training in new technology—all on the company’s dime. Labels: Electrical Employment, Electrical Lighting Work, Electrician Jobs Houston Texas, Skilled Employment Houston Texas
 Illuminations Lighting and Design begins the celebration of its 28th year in business with expansion in both services and personnel.
We currently have a number of landscape lighting job openings ready to be filled with expertise, professionalism, a willingness to mentor and grow, and finely-tuned knowledge of industry skills. Experienced electrical technicians with good work history will be given first consideration for these landscape lighting jobs, but a number of positions will also be filled with dedicated individuals looking to learn a train under the supervision of a mentor.
Landscape lighting and electrical construction jobs in Houston with ILD offer paid vacations, full benefits, and paid training for those ready to make a commitment to our client base, reputation for excellence, and willingness to expand the frontiers of our industry with new technology and landscape lighting design services.
Landscape lighting professionals are expected to be communicative and professional to both residential and commercial clients at all times. Since it will be necessary to drive commercial vehicles to and from client locations, we require all landscape lighting job applicants to have a clean driving record and show proof of a drug-free lifestyle. As an outdoor lighting contractor we ask candidates to provide a social security number as proof of citizenship and/or resident work status.
Houston Landscape lighting designers work hard at their jobs and receive generous compensation for their labor. Our salaries are competitive and offer plenty of opportunities for seniority and merit-based pay increases. As a leader in our industry, we provide on the job paid training in electrical theory, landscape lighting design and related cross disciplines in order to keep our professionals at optimal expert status for both commercial and residential landscape lighting jobs.
Because our client base is diverse and widespread, we give priority to bilingual candidates. We also prefer to hire landscape lighting technicians with a good understanding of both low voltage landscape lighting and a solid working knowledge of the sophisticated wiring methods necessary to install high voltage landscape lights. We expect our team members to bring above-average written and verbal communication skills to the table, as part of any landscape lighting employment involves explaining the proposed system design to the homeowner, business owner, or procurement and planning committee. The ability to listen is also a requirement for these positions; as many of our clients already have a visual picture for their new system clearly in mind and require your assistance in choosing the right hardware and configuration to make that vision a workable, technically sound reality.
Illuminations Lighting and Design accepts resumes from the candidates themselves. We do not outsource recruitment, hiring, or contract our payroll to any third party organization. We do not accept solicitations from recruiters or employment agencies of any kind. We hire the most promising and hard working people we find directly from an active pool, and we train and equip them to become experts in their disciplines. While most of our business over the years has primarily come from in and around Houston, a growing number of high-end landscape lighting jobs in the resort, country club, outdoor restaurant lighting, and hotel lighting fields have begun to spring up all over the country. Candidates who express an unhesitating willingness to travel will be given special consideration for landscape lighting positions that service these burgeoning new markets.
Our main office is located in Houston Texas but provide art, landscape lighting and home automation services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond.
Apply today and get started on a whole new path of professional landscape lighting design and development. Give us a call at 713-863-1133 and let's go to work!
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Can lighting be a form of art?
Yes, but in order to make Art lighting a form of art in and of itself, you must first understand certain scientific and aesthetic qualities of light. Light functions as the supreme universal constant, because the speed of light is the fastest attainable velocity that can never be altered nor exceeded. Because light always travels in a straight line, any obstruction in its path casts a shadow. To some degree as well, light always reflects off any surface it strikes, and this is what makes it possible for us to see any work of art. Light also can fill a space without consuming it, making it possible to use any form of lighting as art provided the angle of incident is aimed correctly at the piece. Improper angles will not only create shadows resulting from light spillage, but they will create glare as the beam reflects off the surface of the work back toward the viewer’s eyes.
How do I completely eliminate glare and shadow?
You can’t completely eliminate glare and shadow in artwork lighting, because no matter what you do, some light is going to reflect off the piece, and sooner or later, the light will encounter some sort of obstruction that casts a shadow.
What a skillful are lighting designer can do is create an angle of incident (the angle at which the light strikes an object) that will position any resulting glare and shadow outside of the viewer’s line of sight.
The old cliche “Out of sight, out of mind,” rings very true when approaching art lighting as an art form unique unto itself.
How do I determine the correct angle of incident for my photography and paintings?
To do so, you or your lighting consultant must think of angles from a three dimensional rather than a two dimensional point of view. Light striking the surface of art from a nearby fixture constitutes one angle of incident. The reflected light coming back to the observer constitutes a second. The two must be measured carefully in relation to one another if one is to determine the appropriate position of any picture lighting fixture. If the right balance is struck, then reflective glare and resulting shadow will be hidden from his or her line of sight, allowing for an uninhibited experience of light and art from that particular viewing angle.
What factors go into determining the ideal angle of incident?
The art lighting interior designer must take several factors into account when installing an art lighting system. To begin with, the designer must pinpoint all points of observation within a room where viewers will possibly be standing when they view various works. These points will vary greatly according to the environment and the type of room involved. Vantage points in museums are very different from those in office foyers and private living rooms. Next, the fine art lighting company or designer has to look at the surface of the art itself to assess its reflective qualities. High-end photographs and many types of paint will many times cause the surface of the image to have a “sheen” that acts as a virtual mirror, casting not only reflected color back into the eyes, but portions of the light beam itself. Recessed lights equipped with dimmers are often required for such artwork in order to disperse illumination sufficiently not to shine back into the eyes.
Thirdly, one very essential aspect of modern art lighting as art that many fail to even consider is the size and type of frame housing the piece. Lighting that comes from a fixture that is placed too high will can actually be blocked by the upper lip of the frame and cast what is called a “frame shadow” over the work. Often, something so simple as adjusting the level of the painting can often remedy this problem in home lighting projects, although in formal galleries this may not be an option, and special fixtures with complex reflectors and filters may be needed to create an indirect “wash” of illumination that results in both painting and frame being bathed in a radiant field of light as opposed to a bright beam of focused, direct light.
What is the best fixture to use if I want to design my art lighting as art?
Perhaps one of the most valuable tools available to the art lighting consultant is a high-end art lighting projector that allows for precision lighting level adjustments, comes equipped with advanced lighting filters and special reflectors, and has the ability to proportionately size a beam to the precise dimensions of a work. Although this does not completely eliminate glare and shadow (which the laws of physics mandate are inevitable with any form of lighting), it does allow the collector or curator more power to control these negative elements, or in some cases, even turn them into art lighting attributes.
For example, many painters such as Goya, and certain genres such as surrealism, rely upon shadows to emphasize themes connected to the dark side of man, or the apparent duality of Nature itself. Placing too much light on such artwork will diminish its statement by overriding elements of shadow that the artist intended to be present. Phantom art lighting projectors can be dimmed and adjusted for such works so as to create a “lighted from within” effect that preserves the artist’s use of dark elements and negative images, providing just enough visibility for the viewer to see the work and its key aesthetic elements.
Do you need help lighting art in your home or office? Labels: Fine art lighting, Lighting Art, Lighting Design Company, Picture Lights, Recessed Accent Fixtures
GRAFIK Eye 3000 and GRAFIK Eye 4000 series by Lutron offer theme-oriented lighting control to commercial and residential clients alike. These control systems create complex interplays between direct, indirect, functional and decorative light appropriate to mood, occasion, and room utilization. Such control allows a person to create multiple lighting themes using the same fixtures in a single lighting system. Keypad control units are programmed for whole house lighting control with one touch convenience to ensure safe, accurate, and instantly responsive operability for the end user.
Lutron GRAFIK Eye systems feature an intuitive memory that allows for multiple lighting scenes that can be programmed into the system. In one sense, this creates many virtual lighting systems from a single physical network of fixtures and wiring. Once lighting themes have been programmed into system memory, it is not necessary for the end user to remember which lights require specific settings. All the end-user needs to do is to select the appropriate lighting scene, and the control unit makes all necessary adjustments to the individual lighting fixtures within the room. Everything from luminance levels to fade in/fade out lighting control is accessed from simple buttons on a wall or tabletop control unit, or interfaced with a Lutron RADIO Ra system for wireless control.
However, the end user is by no means limited to strict parameters of any lighting scene. If necessary, each individual light on the system can also be adjusted manually for fine-tuning or special effects.
Lutron manufactures a number of GRAFIK Eye systems designed for both commercial and residential use. Hospitality lighting clients such as hotels and restaurants often rely upon these controls to create special atmospheres within their enclosed spaces. This helps to establish a resort, dining room, or even hotel foyer as a separate, special place removed from the grind of daily life.
Commercial clients of Illuminations Lighting design often requisition a GRAFIK Eye system for lighting control in executive offices and conference rooms. Most companies realize how important a first impression is upon a visitor and client, and they recognize the value in having not only impeccable lighting, but also flexible, custom lighting control in these areas to maximize emotional congruence to the occasion. Any number of lighting themes and adjustable lighting levels can be programmed into a boardroom lighting design to match agenda, activity, and presentation format. Executive office lighting can be adjusted to create an atmosphere of noticeable but nonetheless subtle tension for formal meetings or decorative ambience for less formal encounters or after hour’s visits with strategic partners and personal friends.
Residential clients who invest in a GRAFIK Eye system almost invariably report back to us that their house feels more like a personalized extension of their mind and lifestyle after our work is complete. The ability to make one’s own living space an extension of mental command is perhaps one of the highest conveniences a homeowner can expect from his or her investment in technology. ILD experts customize each scene on a room-by-room basis and also match those scenes to the activities and events that most frequently occur within particular rooms. Some homes, for instance, have elaborate custom kitchens for cooking and dinner parties. Others homes feature ornate custom architecture and rely upon whole house audio and home theater to provide entertainment for family and friends. GRAFIK Eye eliminates the need for the homeowner to become a self-educated technician because the interface is so quick and simple to use that no technical knowledge or skills are required to manipulate even the world’s most sophisticated commercial grade lighting fixtures.
Another arena where we are beginning to see a great deal of interest in GRAFIK Eye systems is in spiritual circles and houses of worship. With very few exceptions, almost the entire world’s many belief systems associate God and Divinity with Light, and some alternative spiritual paths believe that God and Light are synonymous. From a philosophical as well as an aesthetic perspective then, it makes sense that such an organization would want to have the very best lighting, and that they would want to adjust that lighting to be conducive to an attitude of prayer, meditation, and instructions in higher thought and morality.
Illuminations Lighting Design is a premier vendor of Lutron lighting controls and GRAFIK Eye systems for residences, office buildings, and hospitality oriented facilities. The exact controls used and the lighting themes preset within those controls requires dialogue and extensive consultation with our clients before final equipment selection is made.
Please visit our lighting blog to read more about lighting control, home automation, and specialty office and hospitality lighting design by ILD.
We are located in Houston Texas but provide lighting services in Austin TX, El Paso Texas, San Antonio TX, College Station Texas, Beaumont TX, Dallas Texas, Midland Tx and points beyond. Labels: Dimming Control Systems, Home Automation Lighting Systems, Lutron Dimmer Switches, Lutron lighting controls
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