Health & Safety Professional / Cdm Advisor

Search are currently looking for a construction health and Safety Professional to undertake the role of principal designer/CDM advisor.
Responsibilities for the successful candidate will include:
* Ensuring compliance with the responsibilities of the principal designer, informing and assisting clients in discharging their duties at each stage of the process under the CDM 2015 Regulations, including ensuring suitable management arrangements are in place throughout the project.
* Establishing a record of principles and decisions taken in relation to health and safety from design inception, then monitoring and reporting to completion
* Receiving strategic briefs, advising on the development of the project brief and ensuring appropriate notification to HSE of project particulars
* Visiting sites and carrying out an initial appraisal to establish existing hazards and site restrictions.
* Advising and assisting clients in the appointment of designers and contractors; reviewing H&S implications of procurement methods in respect of CDM 2015 Regulations
* Carrying out design reviews with team members and co-ordinating health and safety matters
* Ensuring that designers have considered and established safe methods for construction of unusual or complex designs, including this as part of the pre-construction information.
* Compiling and issuing pre-construction information both to the design team and the principal contractor
* Reviewing and commenting on principal contractor's construction phase plans on behalf of the client and advising when these are considered developed sufficiently for work to start on site
* Compiling health and safety files during the project and handing over to the client on completion
* Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner with our client and their appointed designers and contractors, to form strong working relationships.
Qualifications:
* Recognised professional qualification in construction health and safety, eg NEBOSH diploma, NEBOSH Construction Certificate, etc
* Certified or incorporated member of the Association for Project Safety (CMaPS/IMaPS)
* Substantial experience delivering CDM co-ordinator/principal designer services (as defined in the CDM 2015 Regulations) to a range of sector clients
* Excellent written and spoken English
* Clean driving licence
* Good technical writing and communication skills and client-facing experience
* Well-organised, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.