CDM Principal Designer

Description

This is a CDM Principal Designer role on the Environment & Energy SH&E team, which works nationally across the UK.

You will work alongside the GGP CDM Lead to build engagement, share CDM knowledge across projects, promote good practice and back the company's commitment to health, safety and wellbeing.

You will provide Principal Designer services on some of the largest energy infrastructure projects in the UK.

The company is a Fortune 500 infrastructure consulting firm. Its Professional Services business reported $16.1 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2025, and the company employs over 50,000 people across transport, buildings, water, new energy and environment projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as a visible advocate for health, including wellbeing, safety and the environment, pushing for ongoing improvement and new ideas to build a mature safety culture under company policies, procedures and SH&E strategies.
• Lead the pre-construction phase, manage risk, improve communication and cooperation, and oversee the handover from design to construction, including preparing the H&S files.
• Take a proactive approach that adds value to projects and clients.
• Make every task and deliverable in your scope excellent, and keep improving methods, processes and results.
• Advise energy staff, project teams and clients on CDM so that their statutory duties are met, and deal with legal gaps promptly and professionally.
• Work with colleagues and managers as one cohesive team, showing respect, support and cooperation toward shared goals.
• Encourage adherence to procedures and process requirements in your area to improve compliance and 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

• Hold a design or engineering degree.
• Have experience on overhead line and HV projects.
• Be a member of the Association of Project Safety.
• Hold a NEBOSH National or General Certificate, or a similar health and safety qualification.
• Have experience delivering the Principal Designer role, carrying out CDM duties effectively and efficiently on energy projects.
• Candidates who meet some of these requirements, or who have transferable skills that would benefit the company, are encouraged to apply.

Conditions

The role can be based at any of the main offices in Manchester, Basingstoke, Glasgow, Cambridge or Bristol.

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

All newly hired employees 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, if they apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and keeps all candidate information confidential under EEO guidelines.

Benefits

• Core and personalised benefits that support your future and wellbeing, tailored to your lifestyle.
• Career development opportunities.
• Flexible hybrid working to support a work-life balance.
• Access to technical practice networks and the company's internal university.
• Volunteering days.
• Compensation, benefits and wellbeing programmes for employees and their families.
• Access to industry-leading technology and thinking as part of a global, publicly traded firm.