Principal Health and Safety Consultant

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in Manchester seeks a professional for a Client Duties role per CDM regulations. Responsibilities include overseeing CDM governance, conducting audits, and developing CDM strategies. Ideal candidates should possess graduate status with IOSH and experience in health and safety management. Flexible work arrangements are available.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive compensation programs

Wellbeing programs

Qualifications

• Professionally qualified, ideally with graduate status and IOSH.
• Experience in client-side CDM governance and assurance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee coordination of delivery and CDM strategy.
• Conduct audits of safety in design and construction phase planning.
• Develop and report KPIs for CDM strategy implementation.

Skills

Governance and assurance of delivery

Coordination of construction activities

Competence assessments

Health and Safety management

Developing CDM Strategy

Education

Graduate status with the IOSH

Membership of Association for Project Safety

Job description

Overview

Role as per Regulations 4 and 5 of CDM2015 (Client Duties), to make suitable arrangements for managing a project and maintaining and reviewing these arrangements throughout, so the project is carried out in a way that manages the health and safety risks.

Responsibilities

• Providing client-side governance & assurance of delivery of CDM Duty Holder Roles, by:
• Overseeing the coordination and integration of the PD activities programme-wide.
• Overseeing the coordination and integration of the PC activities programme-wide.
• Development, upkeep and communication of the CDM Strategy.
• Conduct Competence Assessments/audits (Skills/Knowledge/Experience) to ensure competent contractors/designers are appointed by the Client.
• Ensuring that sufficient Client led Pre-Construction Information is obtained and provided, including any pre-existing survey information, as built drawings, H&S Files and other important information.
• Driving the use of collaborative platforms for the management of Safety in Design
• Coordinating significant CDM risks
• Developing a Pre-Construction and Construction Phase set of KPI\'s to measure and report against through routine reporting to the Client, on the status and performance of the CDM Strategy\'s implementation and advise on CDM matters, through a reporting line at the Programme Leadership Team.
• Advise the Client with regards to any significant CDM issues identified and assure that CDM obligations are met programme wide.
• Monitoring of significant CDM hazards identified by the design teams (through attendance at design risk review meetings and ownership and management of a Programme CDM Risk Log).
• Auditing of PD duties including both safety in design, design review meetings, PCI development, residual risk registers and H&S File development through implementation of an independent audit regime.
• Auditing of PC duties including development of construction phase plans, construction site safety arrangements, logistics plans and management of subcontractors to ensure consistent delivery through implementation of an independent audit regime.

Qualifications

• Professionally Qualified - ideally Graduate status with the IOSH.
• Membership of Association for Project Safety

About Us

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AECOM is the world\'s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle. Our teams solve complex challenges across transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment. We are a Fortune 500 firm with a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and environmental, social and governance priorities. We offer flexibility including hybrid work arrangements and a range of compensation and wellbeing programs.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer and Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from all backgrounds. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.