CDM Principal Designer

AECOM; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Career development opportunities

AECOM University

Job summary

AECOM seeks a CDM Principal Designer to join our Environment & Energy SH&E Team. This national role can be based in several offices (Manchester, Basingstoke, Glasgow, Cambridge, Bristol) and requires leading design teams on major energy infrastructure projects, ensuring CDM duties are met and safety culture is advanced.

The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the GGP CDM Lead, supporting knowledge transfer and delivering safety, health and environment excellence across projects.

Qualifications

• Design/engineering degree required.
• Experience in overhead lines and HV projects.
• Member of the Association of Project Safety.
• NEBOSH National or General Certificate or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience delivering the Principal Designer role on energy projects.

Responsibilities

• Be Safety Champion for health, safety and environment across projects.
• Lead pre-construction phase, drive risk mitigation and design to construction transition.
• Provide CDM counsel to energy projects and client teams.
• Foster collaboration within the team to deliver value and compliance.
• Promote SH&E principles and improve safety culture on all projects.

Skills

Overhead lines experience

HV projects experience

Safety mindset

CDM knowledge

Education

Design / engineering degree

NEBOSH National or General Certificate

Member of the Association of Project Safety

Job description

• Design / engineering degree.

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 have an exciting opportunity for an CDM Principal Designer to join our Environment & Energy SH&E Team. As we are a national team this position can be based at any of our main office locations, including Manchester, Basingstoke, Glasgow, Cambridge and Bristol.

The CDM Principal Designer will work in collaboration with our GGP CDM Lead and 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 on some of our largest energy infrastructure projects in the UK.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Be a Safety Champion: Function as a prominent advocate for health (including wellbeing), safety, and the environment, encouraging continuous improvement and innovation to cultivate and reinforce a mature safety culture in accordance with AECOM's policies, procedures, and SH&E strategies.

Be Proactive: The Principal Designer's role, along with our overarching SH&E strategy, is based on proactive engagement and execution. Our Principal Designers spearhead the pre-construction phase, champion risk mitigation, enhance communication and cooperation, and manage the transition from design to the construction phase, including the production of health and safety files, thereby delivering added value to our projects and clients.

Deliver Excellence: Ensure excellence and added value in every task, activity, and deliverable within the scope of your role. Strive for continuous enhancement of our methods, processes, and results.

Provide CDM Support, Advice & Guidance: Offer CDM counsel to Energy, project staff and clients to ensure the effective execution of our statutory duties and those of our clients, proactively and professionally addressing any legislative discrepancies.

One Team: Collaborate with colleagues and managers to form a cohesive team, fostering respect, support, and cooperation to attain our collective goals.

Management Systems Implementation – Advocate for the adherence to procedures and process requirements throughout your operational scope to foster compliance and bolster our safety culture.

SH&E Promotion – Support in the promotion of AECOM’s Safety for Life, Culture of Caring and Life Preserving Principles, to foster a safe, health and secure workplace.

At AECOM, you’ll thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment where your contributions are valued.

And let's not forget about 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:

• Design / engineering degree.
• Experience in Overhead lines and HV projects.
• Member of the Association of Project Safety.
• NEBOSH National or General Certificate, or similar health and safety qualification.
• Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of duties under CDM on energy projects.

We are a Disability Confident Employer 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 Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

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

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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 $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. 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.