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DW Windsor
Location: Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire
Duration: 1 or 2 weeks
Potential dates: Any
Number of opportunities: Two but at separate times
For 50 Years DW Windsor has combined manufacturing expertise with modern lighting and smart-technology solutions. We cater for complex, specification-driven exterior-lighting projects, offering high quality, customisation and connectivity for outdoor environments where both performance and aesthetics matter. Designed and manufactured on site you can see first-hand all that goes into making first class exterior lighting.
You will be introduced to
- Product Design, CAD Modelling and 3D Printing
- Laboratory Testing, methods and types
- Lighting Design, process overview
To apply email Neil Parrott. Please read STEAM Work Placement - Information for Students before applying.
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Holophane Europe Limited
Location: Milton Keynes
Duration 1-2 weeks
Dates: Any
Number of opportunities: 2 but not concurrently
For over 125 years the name Holophane has enjoyed an enviable reputation throughout the world for expertise, quality and innovation in lighting. From the earliest days when the company pioneered its famous glass refractor, the Holophane name has been ever present as a leader in the field of luminaire and lighting design.
In today’s environment, where landscape lighting, modern architecture and public space projects predominate, the Holophane name remains synonymous with quality design, high performance, low maintenance and cost-effective lighting.
Incorporating interior, exterior, amenity, road, rail and floodlighting luminaires alongside our control solutions, Holophane’s product range is suitable for today’s demanding, environmentally conscious world, offering lowest total cost of ownership, engineering quality, cutting-edge design and outstanding optical performance.
Work Experience Description and things you'll be introduced to
- Lighting Design investigation
- Photometric and compliance lab tour
- Business introduction
To apply email: Technical Manager – Work experience. Please read STEAM Work Placement - Information for Students before applying.
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Mode Lighting
Location: Ware / Hertford
Duration: 4 or 5 Days to be confirmed 9-3pm daily, again subject to confirmation
Duration: May-July, exact dates to be confirmed and will try and be flexible to suit schools requirement
Number of Opportunities: Up to four students together
Mode Lighting is a privately owned UK company specialising in the design and manufacture of lighting controls for the architectural, commercial, hospitality and residential sectors working in conjunction with lighting and interior designers to help create the right ambience in a space.
The work experience programme is being developed but will cover
- Business overview sessions looking at what a business does, what are it’s aims and how different disciplines come together to create a successful business. This may include time looking at Design, Technical, Manufacturing, Sales and Administration aspects of our business.
- Lighting Sessions : An introduction to lighting, why different lighting suits different applications, why the overall design matters and why sunlight, shading and the physiological effects of lighting all have an impact.
- Behind the Lighting: Looking at the control of lighting, what we do as Mode Lighting and how electronics, engineering and lighting come together.
- Group Task across the week: Develop an idea for a lighting product, review the application, research products that may already exist, look at the processes involved from design brief to boxed product and how external factors may influence the product from environmental impact, costs and marketing to designing for manufacture.
To apply email James King. Please read STEAM Work Placement - Information for Students before applying.
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TRYKA LED Ltd
Location: Letchworth
Duration: 1 week
Dates: Flexible
Number of placements available: 3
Tryka is a LED Lighting Manufacturer.
During the work placement you will be introduced to:
- Assembly and testing of safety extra low voltage LED lighting fixtures, option to learn soldering for those interested
- Labelling and Packaging of products
- General warehouse duties, picking, packing and processing paperwork
- General sales administration - Quotations and sales support
- Soft CAD skills, such as running take-offs for units and measurements of linear light fixtures
- Answering and Directing incoming telephone calls
- Organising sales samples and assisting with the wiring / plug and play operation of lights
To apply Email Kya Rolph. Please read STEAM Work Placement - Information for Students before applying.
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