CDM Principal Designer

Overview

In this role you will lead CDM principal design for major UK energy infrastructure projects, acting as a safety advocate and design-phase champion within the Environment & Energy SH&E team. You will guide risk mitigation, coordinate pre-construction activities, and ensure smooth design-to-construction transitions while producing essential health and safety documentation. You will collaborate with clients and multidisciplinary teams to reinforce AECOM’s safety culture and deliver value. This is a chance to shape major projects and uplift communities through safer, compliant design.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working options
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• wellbeing programs
• competitive benefits

Responsibilities

• Advocate health, safety and environment, fostering a mature safety culture
• Lead pre-construction design efforts and risk mitigation
• Coordinate design-to-construction handover and health and safety files
• Provide CDM guidance to project staff and clients, addressing statutory duties
• Collaborate within cross-functional teams to achieve project goals
• Implement management systems and ensure procedure compliance
• Support SH&E promotion and Life Preserving Principles across projects

Key requirements

• Design/engineering degree
• Experience in Overhead lines and HV projects
• Member of the Association of Project Safety
• NEBOSH National or General Certificate or equivalent
• Experience delivering Principal Designer duties on energy projects
• Collaborative teamwork
• Proactive communication
• Stakeholder management
• CDM regulations expertise
• Health and safety file production
• Risk assessment and mitigation

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