CDM Principal Designer

Description

The role sits with the Environment & Energy SH&E Team, which 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, sharing CDM knowledge across projects, giving support and guidance, and promoting good practice.

The work is Principal Designer services on some of the largest energy infrastructure projects in the UK, carried out with project teams and clients.

The company is a global infrastructure consulting firm. It is a Fortune 500 business, and its Professional Services arm had $16.1 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2025. Over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers and construction managers work across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Act as a visible advocate for health, wellbeing, safety and the environment, pushing for ongoing improvement and new ideas that build a mature safety culture in line with company policies, procedures and SH&E strategies.
• Lead the pre-construction phase proactively, manage risk, improve communication and cooperation, and handle the handover from design to construction, including preparing health and safety files.
• Make every task, activity and deliverable in your scope excellent and valuable, and keep improving methods, processes and results.
• Advise energy project staff and clients on CDM so they meet their statutory duties, and raise any legal gaps constructively and professionally.
• Work with colleagues and managers as one cohesive team, showing respect, support and cooperation toward shared goals.
• Encourage people in your area to follow procedures and process requirements, improving compliance and the safety culture.
• Support the promotion of 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 with overhead lines and HV projects.
• Membership of the Association of Project Safety.
• A NEBOSH National or General Certificate, or a similar health and safety qualification.
• Experience performing the Principal Designer role, delivering CDM duties effectively and efficiently on energy projects.
• If you meet some of these requirements or bring transferable skills that would help the company, the team would like to hear from you.

Conditions

Hybrid working is offered, and you can work from an office, remotely or at a client site.

You must attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at a company office as a condition of employment.

The company runs a secure recruitment process and takes hiring fraud seriously.

The company is a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum essential criteria. To use the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, contact the UK reasonable accommodations team.

Applicant information is kept confidential under EEO guidelines, and the company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits designed around your future, wellbeing and lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Technical practice networks.
• Access to the company University.
• Volunteering days.
• Flexible hybrid working to balance work and life.
• Access to industry-leading technology and thinking as part of a global, publicly traded firm.