CDM Principal Designer

Description

The role is a CDM Principal Designer post in the environment and energy safety, health and environment team. The team works nationally, so the post can be based at any main office: Manchester, Basingstoke, Glasgow, Cambridge or Bristol.

You will work alongside the GGP CDM Lead to build good engagement, give support, advice and direction, and share CDM knowledge across projects, promoting good practice and the company's commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.

You will deliver Principal Designer services on some of the largest energy infrastructure projects in the UK, working with internal teams and clients.

The company is a global infrastructure consultancy with over 50,000 staff, a Fortune 500 firm, and Professional Services revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. It works across transport, buildings, water, new energy and the environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a visible champion for health, wellbeing, safety and the environment, pushing continuous improvement and new ideas to build a mature safety culture under company policies, procedures and safety, health and environment strategies.
• Lead early on in the pre-construction phase, take the lead on risk reduction, improve communication and co-operation, and manage the handover from design to construction, including preparing health and safety files.
• Make sure every task, activity and deliverable in your scope is excellent and adds value, and keep improving methods, processes and results.
• Give CDM advice and guidance to energy project staff and clients so statutory duties, yours and your clients', are met, raising any legal gaps early and handling them professionally.
• Work with colleagues and managers as one team, showing respect, support and co-operation to reach shared goals.
• Encourage adherence to procedures and process requirements within your area to improve compliance and strengthen the safety culture.
• Help promote the company's Safety for Life, Culture of Caring and Life Preserving principles to keep the workplace safe, healthy and secure.

Requirements

• A design or engineering degree.
• Experience on overhead line and high voltage (HV) projects.
• Membership of the Association of Project Safety.
• A NEBOSH National or General Certificate, or a similar health and safety qualification.
• Experience acting as Principal Designer, delivering CDM duties effectively and efficiently on energy projects.
• If you meet some of these requirements or bring transferable skills that would help the team, the company would like to hear from you.

Conditions

The post is hybrid, with work from a company office, a remote location or a client site.

All newly hired staff must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at a company office as a condition of employment.

The company is a Disability Confident Employer and will interview applicants with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum essential criteria, through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Applicant information is handled confidentially under equal opportunities guidelines.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits to support your future and wellbeing, tailored to your lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working to help you balance work and life.
• Access to technical practice networks and the company University, which here means the company's own learning platform.
• Volunteering days.
• Access to industry-leading technology and thinking, and work with large impact as part of a global, publicly traded firm.