CDM Principal Designer

Aecom; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A trusted infrastructure consulting firm is seeking an experienced CDM Principal Designer to join its Environment & Energy Team in Glasgow. The role involves coordinating pre-construction activities, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering positive engagement with clients and teams. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in the field and strong communication skills. This position offers benefits, including flexible hybrid working and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Access to AECOM University

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role on energy or geographically long projects.
• High level of commitment to quality and ability to work on multiple projects.
• Effectively communicates requirements with clarity and precision.

Responsibilities

• Work with design teams to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate pre-construction phase.
• Ensure compliance with duties under CDM regulations.
• Assist clients in the provision of pre-construction information.

Skills

Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Strong proficiency in verbal and written English

Job description

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

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for :

• 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.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives.

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

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @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.

We are aDisabilityConfidentEmployer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum / essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the DisabilityConfidentInterview Scheme.

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