Health & Safety Consultant / CDM Principal Designer

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What's the Opportunity

The Construction Health and Safety team is an expanding group of technically skilled specialists at Ridge. We specialise in the provision of CDM Principal Designer and Construction Health and Safety Advisor services, working across a range of businesses and sectors.

Role Overview

We are seeking a CDM Principal Designer to deliver CDM duties across a wide range of construction projects ranging from domestic to complex and high-profile. For this role you will have experience in delivering or assisting the CDM Principal Designer role to ensure that health and safety is embedded into the design process and that legal duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 are discharged effectively. You will also have experience in design or construction-related health and safety, delivering CDM Principal Designer duties, and the ability to influence clients, designers, and contractors.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Principal Designer as defined under CDM 2015 on a range of projects across sectors such as healthcare, education, commercial, residential, and infrastructure.
• Co-ordinate design risk management across multidisciplinary teams to eliminate, reduce, or control foreseeable risks.
• Engage early with clients and design teams to influence project planning and promote best practice Health and safety from concept through to completion.
• Provide competent advice to clients on their duties under CDM Regulations and other relevant health and safety legislation.
• Review and collate pre-construction information and identify gaps or areas requiring action.
• Prepare and manage the Health and Safety File, ensuring completeness and usability.
• Participate in design risk review meetings and workshops.
• Contribute to business development, bid writing, and client relationship management.
• Undertake site inspections and monitoring visits to determine CDM compliance.

Key Requirements

Essential:

• NEBOSH Construction Certificate (or higher) or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience delivering of assisting CDM Principal Designer on small to medium projects.
• Good working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and wider construction health and safety legislation.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Proficient in preparing pre-construction information, design risk registers, and Health and Safety Files (CDM Documentation).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective time management and organisation.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Teams and Associated software.
• Confidence to challenge unsafe design choices and promote safer alternatives.
• Commitment to upholding safety standards and continuing professional development.

Desirable:

• Experience in healthcare, industrial, manufacturing, science, or other complex building environments.
• Experience using Common Data Environments (CDEs).
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. IOSH, APS, RIBA, ICE, CIOB, CABE).

About us

We are Ridge, a Built Environment Consultancy. We help our clients transform the quality and sustainability of the built environment.

Our 1,400+ people bring a vast range of skills, delivering a professional mindset, gritty discipline and a genuine passion to every one of the thousands of projects they undertake each year. They're the foundation of our success - they drive our vision, embody our values and separate us from the competition.

Come and join us if you're hungry to be part of an exceptional team - if you put quality first - if you're motivated by ingenuity and if you're always aspiring to be the very best.