Senior Principal Designer or CDM Advisor

Currie & Brown Group Limited; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled construction health and safety professional to join their dynamic team as a principal designer/CDM advisor. This role is pivotal in ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation while fostering a culture of innovation. You will engage with clients, provide expert advice, and lead the charge in enhancing project safety standards. With a commitment to inclusivity and employee development, this firm offers a vibrant work environment where your contributions can significantly impact prestigious projects. If you're passionate about safety and looking to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Support for international work opportunities

Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a CDM coordinator/principal designer required.
• Professional qualification in construction health and safety preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure project compliance with health and safety legislation.
• Advise clients on their duties under CDM Regulations 2015.
• Conduct site visits and assess existing hazards.

Skills

CDM Regulations 2015

Health and Safety Legislation

Technical Writing

Client-Facing Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Self-Organization

Driving License

Education

NEBOSH Diploma

NEBOSH Construction Certificate

Professional Qualification in Construction Health and Safety

Job description

Senior Principal Designer or CDM Advisor

Currie & Brown is one of the leading international physical asset management and construction consultancies, dedicated to advising clients worldwide with our expertise and experience in multiple sectors and services. We are differentiated by our people, innovation, and reputation with a genuine global office network.

Our people, from the first-day apprentice to senior management, make our business what it is today. Everybody in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced they are, plays their own unique part in our success and has fun along the way.

The role – what is it we would like you to do?

Currie & Brown is currently looking for a construction health and safety professional to undertake the role of principal designer/CDM2015 independent client advisor within our project team. The successful candidate will ensure project compliance with health and safety legislation, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation and reinforcing our recognised reputation as a preferred service provider.

Your core duties will involve:

• Complying with the responsibilities of the principal designer under the CDM Regulations 2015
• Informing and assisting clients in discharging their duties at each stage of the process under the CDM Regulations 2015
• Establishing a record of principles and decisions taken in relation to health and safety in feasibility studies
• Receiving strategic briefs and advising on the development of the project brief
• Visiting sites and carrying out an initial appraisal to establish existing hazards and site restrictions
• Advising and assisting clients in the appointment of designers and contractors
• Reviewing implications of procurement methods in respect of CDM regulations
• Carrying out design reviews with team members and coordinating health and safety matters
• Ensuring that designers have established safe methods for construction of unusual or complex designs and making this available as part of the pre-construction information
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships
• Generating new principal designer work

What skills and attributes are we looking for from you:

• Certified or Incorporated Member of the Association for Project Safety (CMaPS/IMaPS)
• Previous experience as a CDM coordinator/principal designer (as defined under the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2015)
• A recognised professional qualification in construction health and safety, such as a NEBOSH diploma or NEBOSH Construction Certificate would be an advantage although not essential.
• Experience in delivering CDM/principal designer services to private and public sector clients on a mixture of projects
• Good technical writing, client-facing, and communication skills
• Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful and flexible
• Ability to self-organise and self-motivate
• Full driving licence

About Us

Why choose Currie & Brown?

Unlike some businesses, we prioritise the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people’s futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage – providing advice, support and the structure to achieve.

We are an international industry leader – Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world’s most prestigious projects and for some of the world’s top clients.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas; they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.