CDM Principal Designer

Overview

As a CDM Principal Designer within AECOM’s Environment & Energy SH&E Team, you will lead health, safety and environmental considerations across large UK energy infrastructure projects. You collaborate with project teams and clients to apply best-practice CDM guidance, manage the pre-construction phase, and ensure smooth design-to-construction transitions. You will champion risk mitigation and contribute to a mature safety culture aligned with AECOM policies. This role offers the chance to influence high-impact projects while advancing SH&E capabilities across a national team.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• flexible working
• wellbeing programs

Responsibilities

• Act as a Safety Champion advocating health, safety and wellbeing and fostering a mature safety culture
• Lead proactive engagement in the pre-construction phase, focusing on risk mitigation and design-to-construction transition
• Deliver excellence across all tasks and seek continuous process and method improvements
• Provide CDM counsel to energy projects, staff and clients to meet statutory duties
• Collaborate within One Team to achieve common goals and maintain high standards of safety and cooperation
• Implement management systems and ensure adherence to procedures to bolster safety culture
• Promote AECOM's SH&E initiatives and Life Preserving Principles within the project teams
• Support development and dissemination of CDM knowledge 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 health and safety qualification
• Experience delivering the Principal Designer role on energy projects

• collaboration
• proactive engagement
• clear communication
• CDM counsel and compliance
• Principal Designer duties and governance
• health, safety and environment strategy implementation

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