Senior Health & Safety Consultant

Whats the Opportunity

Locations: Reading Birmingham Bristol Leeds

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 highly motivated and experienced Senior CDM Principal Designer to lead and manage the delivery of CDM duties across a wide range of construction projects ranging from domestic to complex and high-profile. The right candidate should be able 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.

The successful candidate will have a strong background in design or construction-related health and safety experience delivering CDM Principal Designer duties and the ability to influence clients designers and contractors. Experience in delivering The CDM Principal Designer role is essential.

What you need to do to be successful in this role

• 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.
• Lead the coordination of 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.
• Chair and participate in design risk review meetings and workshops.
• Mentor and support CDM and H&S professionals across the team.
• Contribute to business development bid writing and client relationship management.
• Undertake site inspections and monitoring visits to determine CDM compliance.

Skills and experience required

Essential:

• NEBOSH Construction Certificate (or higher) or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• Experience acting as CDM Principal Designer on medium to large projects.
• Strong working knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and wider construction health and safety legislation.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills with the ability to lead meetings and engage confidently with clients designers and contractors.
• 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 tochallenge unsafe design choicesand promote safer alternatives
• Commitment toupholding safety standardsand 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).

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

Our 1000 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. Theyre the foundation of our success - they drive our vision embody our values and separate us from the competition.

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