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To deliver the lighting industry’s Strategic Roadmap and increase the value of lighting by 2025, LightingEurope focuses on Better Enforcement, Sound Product Rules, Value of Lighting and Sustainability. LightingEurope also specifically addresses certain applications of lighting technology: Emergency Lighting, Automotive Lighting and UV-C Disinfection Technologies

LightingEurope advocates the Better Enforcement of EU rules to provide safe and quality products for users and a level playing field for all economic actors on the EU market.

Lighting products are subject to many EU rules: ecodesign, energy efficiency, energy labelling, safety requirements for low voltage, electromagnetic or radio emitting products and obligations to provide information.

Europe’s lighting industry has taken the lead in sustainability, not only by delivering significant energy savings but also with our track record in extending the lifetime of products, reducing hazardous substances and collecting and recycling of waste products.

LightingEurope advocates for #BetterLighting. Light enables vision, it helps us navigate our surroundings and makes us feel safe. But light can do so much more. 

Emergency lighting is present in all types of buildings, from hospitals to schools, hotels, offices or residential buildings and is on when the electric supply to the normal lighting fails. Emergency lighting provides illumination and guidance for occupants to safely exit a building in the case of an incident. Emergency lighting is mandatory, needs continuous assessment and should be maintained.

Value of Lighting
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Our Initiatives

LightingEurope is committed to promoting efficient lighting that benefits human comfort, safety and well-being, and the environment. We advocate a positive business and regulatory environment to foster fair competition and growth for the European lighting industry.

LightingEurope Guidelines
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European Lighting Priorities
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Our Members

LightingEurope is the trade association that represents the lighting industry in Europe. We are the voice of more than 1,000 lighting companies, 80% of which are SMEs, and who together employ more than 100,000 people across Europe.

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Job-Technical Manager

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Technical Manager

LightingEurope

 

LightingEurope is looking to recruit a full-time Technical Manager to join the Secretariat team based in Brussels.

 

About the successful candidate

You have:

  • an engineering background
  • minimum 5 years’ experience in lighting, preferably in a manufacturing company (R&D) or a test house
  • broad understanding of multiple technical parameters and regulatory requirements impacting lighting (e.g. performance, quality, substances, data/software)
  • excellent communication skills in English, both written and oral (additional languages are a plus). You have demonstrated experience in:
    • drafting content – you can adapt your messaging to both an audience of technical experts and an audience of laymen
    • effectively communicating your proposals in meetings both with technical experts and with laymen
    • public speaking experience is a plus
  • experience in working in international teams
  • experience in participating to meetings with diverse stakeholders, you are a good listener and are skilled at fostering consensus
  • active social media presence is a plus

Personal skills: customer-oriented, team player, proven ability to work independently and deliver on time to targets, proactive, prepared to think outside the box, good sense of adventure.

 

About the role

You will join the LightingEurope Secretariat team and will

  • liaise with the policy team to monitor and evaluate upcoming EU regulatory developments, analyse the potential impact for LightingEurope members and recommend actions for LightingEurope
  • liaise with LightingEurope members to evaluate EU policy developments and foster a LightingEurope position
  • liaise with EU regulators to explain lighting technology and LightingEurope recommendations
  • draft LightingEurope advocacy and technical material (e.g. position papers, guidelines)
  • help manage the LightingEurope working groups and subgroups – set up and manage meetings, draft agendas and minutes, support Chair and participating members to forge consensus (currently all meetings are online/ min 3 f2f meetings per working group when not in times of pandemic)

The role will functionally report to the Policy Director and Senior Policy Manager.

 

Location

The LightingEurope office is located in Brussels, Belgium and the successful candidate will be expected to be present in the office minimum 4 times per month (once current restrictions are lifted). Limited international travel may be expected.

 

What we offer

LightingEurope is tasked with delivering the 2025 Strategic Roadmap of Europe’s lighting industry and you will be at the heart of our activities, working both with industry leaders and technical experts on the one hand and with EU regulators on the other to shape a positive business environment.

We are a vibrant and ever-evolving organization, value for members is what drives the work of the Secretariat. We map industry, business and regulatory trends and adapt our activities to develop and deliver new products and services for our members and the wider industry. 

You will join a dynamic young international team, composed primarily of policy experts, with a strong network in the Brussels policy arena and the industry.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package in line with Belgian living standards.

 

How to apply

Please send your CV and a cover letter explaining the value you can contribute to LightingEurope members by EOB 25 May 2021 to Ourania Georgoutsakou, Secretary General (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Please state “Application Technical Manager – [your name]” in the email subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted due to limited capacity.

Please include in the body of your email: “I hereby agree for my personal data to be processed by LightingEurope for recruitment purposes” – in line with personal data rules we must have your written consent to follow up on your application. LightingEurope will not keep your CV and cover letter on file – all information of non-successful candidates will be deleted from our records