CDM Principal Designer

AECOM; Bristol; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in the UK is looking for an experienced CDM Principal Designer to join their Energy Team. This role will involve providing Principal Designer services, collaborating with design teams, and ensuring compliance with safety regulations. The ideal candidate should have experience in delivering the Principal Designer role, a commitment to quality, and strong communication skills. The firm offers a hybrid working model and a range of benefits to support employee well-being.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role on energy or geographically long projects.
• High level of commitment to quality and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong proficiency in both verbal and written English.

Responsibilities

• Work with design teams to coordinate the pre-construction phase of projects.
• Ensure compliance with Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
• Prepare a Health and Safety File for project handover.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Problem-solving

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We’re one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

Start here. Grow here.

AECOM is offering an exciting role for an experienced CDM Principal Designer to become part of our award‑winning Environment & Energy SH&E Team, delivering one of the largest projects within our Energy portfolio. As a national team, this role can be based at any of our primary UK offices, with a preference for London and the Southeast.

A CDM Principal Designer in our Energy Team will be instrumental in fostering positive engagement, providing support, advice, and guidance, as well as disseminating CDM knowledge across our projects, advocating best practices and reinforcing our commitment to health, safety, and wellbeing in all that we do.

The role involves collaborating with our teams and clients to provide Principal Designer services within our Energy business.

You will report to the Environment & Energy Principal Designer Lead for the UK&I region and aid in the development of our Principal Designer resources, contributing to an environment that encourages professional growth.

Here’s what you’ll do

• Work with our design teams and others to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the pre‑construction phase of our projects.
• Coordinate with our design teams and others to ensure the general principles of prevention are applied, during the pre‑construction phase of our projects.
• Work with our design teams to ensure compliance with their duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
• Coordinate with all the duty holders on our projects during the pre‑construction phase to ensure cooperation.
• Assist our clients in the provision of the pre‑construction information.
• Laise with the principal contractors on our projects and share information relevant to the construction phase and prepare a Health and Safety File for the client at project handover.

Enjoy the Perks

At AECOM, you’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role on energy or geographically long projects (roads, pipelines, etc.), ensuring effective and efficient delivery of duties under CDM.
• High level of commitment to quality, ability to work in a fast‑paced environment and to work on multiple projects / business initiatives at any one time.
• Effectively communicates requirements with clarity and precision, demonstrating strong proficiency in both verbal and written English.
• If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Melissa Moody).

About AECOM

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well‑being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry‑leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

ReqID : J10134815

Business Line : Energy

Business Group : DCS

Strategic Business Unit : Europe & India

Career Area : Safety, Health & Environment

Work Location Model : Hybrid