Principal Designer and Construction Health and Safety Consultant

The Health and Safety Partnership Limited; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health and safety consultancy is seeking a Principal Designer and Consultant to provide essential health and safety advice on various construction projects. The ideal candidate will have relevant qualifications, strong CDM knowledge, and experience in assurance services. This role offers a competitive salary between £55,000 and £65,000, alongside benefits including a car allowance and healthcare.

Benefits

Car allowance

Pension

Healthcare

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Construction (Design and Management) regulations.
• Previous construction-related experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide health and safety assurance services to clients.
• Engage with stakeholders and provide safety training.
• Conduct site inspections and audits.
• Monitor project health and safety performances.

Skills

Health and safety assurance

Stakeholder engagement

Safety management procedures

Competence assessment

Education

Working towards CMaPS and/or CMIOSH

Job description

Overview

Principal Designer and Construction Health and Safety Consultant is required to join a well-established national dedicated Construction Health, Safety and CDM Consultancy. You will join an established, growing team, delivering the Principal Designer role, providing CDM advice for clients and construction safety advice for contractors on a variety of challenging and interesting construction projects.

Duties

• Health and safety assurance services to clients and projects.
• Early engagement with stakeholders.
• Briefings in best practice.
• Safety management procedures – ensure works adhere to client health and safety management procedures (asbestos etc.), best practice and safety regulations.
• RAMS review and approval.
• Advise on health and safety competence of supply chain.
• Site walk rounds/inspections/audits to monitor various construction work projects.
• Review and provide inductions.
• Deal with day-to-day contractor health and safety matters, interfaces, permit issues, etc.
• Represent clients on health and safety matters at meetings.
• Provide ongoing health and safety advisory support, guidance and mentoring to clients.
• Provide, where required, CDM/health and safety briefings and training to clients and key members of the project chain.
• Report on CDM/health and safety performance monitoring and reports.

Experience

The position is open at Consultant or Senior Consultant grade; subject to experience. Each grade comes with a progression plan in place to achieve promotion, pay rises and levels of responsibilities and duties within the business. Previous construction-related experience and qualifications are beneficial.

Qualifications

You will hold or be working towards CMaPS and/or CMIOSH. Strong knowledge of CDM.

Benefits

The company are offering 55k-65k plus car allowance, pension and healthcare.