Principal Health & Safety Consultant

AECOM; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Health & Safety Consultant to oversee health and safety management on key infrastructure projects. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex challenges, ensuring compliance with regulations and improving safety standards. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in CDM regulations and client-side governance, contributing to impactful projects that enhance community well-being. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will help shape a safer future and foster a culture of innovation and excellence.

Benefits

Flexible work options

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Professional development opportunities

Access to industry-leading technology

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• Professionally Qualified with IOSH and experience in health and safety management.
• Strong understanding of CDM regulations and client-side governance.

Responsibilities

• Oversee health and safety risks management for projects.
• Conduct audits and ensure compliance with CDM obligations.
• Develop KPIs for CDM strategy implementation and reporting.

Skills

Health and Safety Management

CDM Regulations

Client-side Governance

Competence Assessments

Safety in Design

Education

Graduate status with IOSH

Membership of Association for Project Safety

Job description

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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.

Overall 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.

Here’s what you’ll do:

• 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.

If you're passionate about innovation and turning bold ideas into reality, AECOM welcomes you. Join our team, where we don't just construct infrastructure but also uplift communities and enhance lives. Why not give our AECOM page on LinkedIn a follow to stay updated on the impactful projects we're working on and see firsthand the difference we're making in the industry!

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

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

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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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.

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

ReqID: J10117614

Business Line: B&P - Buildings & Places

Business Group: DCS

Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India

Career Area: Safety, Health & Environment

Work Location Model: Hybrid

Legal Entity: AECOM Limited

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Architecture and Planning, Civil Engineering, and Construction

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