CDM & Design Risk Integration Lead

Ferrovial Services Australia; Waverley; On-site; AUD 156,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Ferrovial is seeking an experienced CDM & Design Risk Integration Lead to manage CDM design risk information and coordinate across HS2-related interfaces within the FBRS framework. The role requires strong leadership in design risk assessment and proactive stakeholder engagement on major railway infrastructure projects.

The successful candidate will ensure traceability of CDM inputs, oversee risk allocation to design owners, and champion Safe by Design principles throughout the design lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in engineering design and CDM design risk within major railway or complex infrastructure projects.
• Strong knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and roles of Client/Principal Designer/Designer.
• Experience integrating CDM risk information into engineering design and working with lead designer or multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven ability to manage risk interfaces across rail systems, civil works, construction, testing and commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead the receipt, review and management of CDM related design risk information for the FBRS scope.
• Assess information from HS2 and other parties with Design Managers and specialists.
• Allocate risks to design owners and ensure actions are addressed in design.
• Ensure CDM inputs are reflected in design information and decisions.
• Maintain traceability from CDM risk inputs to design response and resolution.
• Identify and elevate significant design risks through FBRS arrangements.

Skills

Engineering design

CDM design risk

Regulations 2015

Lead Designer experience

Design integration

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Rail systems knowledge

Communication skills

Education

Chartered Engineer

Tools

Design risk assessment tools

Job description

Join Ferrovial: Where Innovation Meets Opportunity

Are you ready to elevate your career with a global leader in infrastructure solving complex problems and generating a positive outcome on people’s lives? At Ferrovial, we are not just a company; we are a community of innovators and trailblazers. Ferrovial is also leading the development of the New Terminal One at JFK International Airport. Ferrovial shares trade under the ticker symbol FER on two stock markets: Nasdaq in the U.S. (Nasdaq100 Index) and the Spanish Stock Exchanges (IBEX 35). Ferrovial is included in globally recognized sustainability indices such as the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Index. We operate in more than 15 countries and have a workforce of over 22,000 professionals worldwide. Ferrovial’s activity is carried out through our business units, including Highways, Airports, Construction, and Energy.

Ferrovial Construction is internationally recognized for its capacity to design and build civil engineering and construction projects, mainly in large transportation infrastructure. Its track-record to date includes more than 304 miles of tunnels, 11,930 miles of roads (including 2,485 miles of highways), 2920 miles of railroad lines (including 434 miles of high-speed railroads) and 16,994 miles of road maintenance and repair.

Why Ferrovial?

• Global presence, local impact: Be part of a company that is shaping the future of infrastructure worldwide, with challenging roles and projects that make a real difference.
• Collaborative excellence:Work alongside talented professionals in a collaborative environment where your ideas and contributions are valued.
• Inclusive Culture: Thrive in an innovative and respectful workplace that values every voice, celebrates what makes us unique and turns differences into innovation.
• Career growth: Benefit from global and cross-business unit mobility, with development processes designed to ensure your professional growth.
• Compelling benefits and employee wellbeing: Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package that rewards your hard work and dedication and take advantage of initiatives designed to support your physical and psychological health.
• Productivity tools: Utilize cutting-edge tools like Microsoft Copilot to enhance your productivity and efficiency.

Job Description

CDM & Design Risk Integration Lead

Ferrovial BAM JV has a strong track record of delivering major UK infrastructure projects and is now responsible for the track infrastructure across the full HS2 route.

Department

Engineering/Design

Reports to

Rail Systems Lead Design Manager

The CDM & Design Risk Integration Lead will lead the FBRS (Ferrovial-BAM Rail Systems Joint Venture) process for managing CDM related design risk information relevant to the scope, including information provided by HS2 in its capacity as Principal Designer.

Working within the FBRS Railway Systems Lead Designer arrangements, the role will ensure that relevant CDM risk information is assessed, allocated to the appropriate design owner, addressed through the design and tracked through to evidenced resolution.

The role will provide the key interface between HS2 as Principal Designer, the FBRS engineering and design teams, Design Partners and the relevant FBRS Principal Contractor teams.

Key Responsibilities

CDM & Design Risk Integration

• Lead the receipt, review and management of CDM related design risk information relevant to the FBRS scope.
• Assess the applicability and design impact of information received from HS2 and other relevant parties with the appropriate Design Managers and technical specialists.
• Allocate relevant risks and actions to the responsible design owner and ensure they are addressed through the design process.
• Ensure CDM inputs are reflected, as appropriate, in design requirements, assumptions, constraints, interfaces, design decisions and residual risk information.
• Maintain clear traceability from significant CDM risk inputs through to the design response and final resolution.
• Identify and elevate significant, unresolved or cross-boundary CDM design risks through the appropriate FBRS design and Railway Systems Lead Designer arrangements.

Safe by Design

• Lead proportionate Safe by Design activities to ensure health and safety risks are considered at the appropriate stage of design development.
• Challenge Designers to demonstrate how foreseeable risks have been eliminated or reduced so far as is reasonably practicable.
• Ensure relevant risks associated with construction, installation, testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance are considered within the design.
• Ensure agreed controls and significant residual risks are clearly reflected in the relevant design information.
• Coordinate specialist occupational hygiene input where required.

Principal Designer and Principal Contractor Interface

• Act as the key FBRS interface with HS2 as Principal Designer for CDM information relevant to the FBRS design scope.
• Review relevant preconstruction and CDM risk information received from HS2 and determine the required ownership and design response within FBRS.
• Coordinate the communication of relevant FBRS design risk information to HS2 and other affected dutyholders as required.
• Identify matters requiring construction, installation, logistics, testing or commissioning input from FBRS as Principal Contractor and ensure this input is considered within the design.
• Identify and elevate gaps or conflicts in CDM information, ownership or interfaces.

Key Skills and Experience

Essential

• Extensive experience in engineering design, design management or CDM design risk within major railway or complex multidisciplinary infrastructure projects, with demonstrable experience integrating CDM risks into design.
• Strong working knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and the duties and interfaces of the Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor and Designers.
• Demonstrable experience integrating Client or Principal Designer CDM risk information into engineering design.
• Experience working within or supporting a Lead Designer or multidisciplinary design integration function.
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes, with the ability to review and challenge design responses to CDM risks.
• Experience managing risk interfaces across rail systems, civil works, construction, installation, testing and commissioning, operation and maintenance.
• Ability to maintain clear traceability between risk information, design ownership, design response and evidence of closure.
• Strong communication, technical challenge and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable

• Experience on HS2, Network Rail or a comparable major UK railway programme.
• Membership of an appropriate engineering, construction or design related professional institution.
• Relevant CDM, construction health and safety or design risk management qualification.

*Please note that this job description does not represent a comprehensive list of activities and employees may be requested to undertake other reasonable duties.

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