Salary: £40,000-£45,000 (Depending on Experience)
Who will I be working for?
Founded in 1970, Stephen George + Partners LLP is one of the UK’s leading architectural practices with offices in London, Leicester, Leeds, Birmingham, and Solihull. We are placed in the ‘Top 100’ practices by the Architects’ Journal (the AJ 100).
Sectors and Services we operate:
- Sectors: Industrial, Transport, Healthcare, Office + Workplace, Mixed Use + Retail, Residential, Education, Leisure + Hospitality, Science + Innovation.
- Services: Architecture, Masterplanning, Interior Design, Digital, BIM, Visualisation and Health + Safety (CDM and BSA PD roles).
Our Core Values: Fairness, Integrity, Quality, Service, Design, Social Responsibility.
Our Mission: To continue to grow the business, increase diversity, improve efficiency and to be a responsible employer, creating a business culture that reflects our Core Values.
Our Vision: To inspire us all, building a strong, vibrant, and resilient practice where all five offices function efficiently, sharing resources, skills and capability across teams and sectors and collaborating as a single entity in delivering SGP’s Vision with a focus on Community, Capability and Resilience
The Role: We are seeking a competent and proactive CDM Principal Designer with 5 years of relevant experience to lead and coordinate health and safety compliance across construction projects in line with the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015).
The successful candidate will play a key role in planning, managing, monitoring, and coordinating health and safety during the pre-construction phase, ensuring risks are eliminated or reduced through effective design and collaboration.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the Principal Designer in accordance with CDM 2015 regulations.
- Plan, manage, monitor, and coordinate health and safety during the pre-construction phase.
- Identify, eliminate, or control foreseeable risks through design risk management.
- Coordinate with clients, designers, and contractors to ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
- Preparation of Pre-Construction Information (PCI).
- Ensure designers comply with their duties under CDM 2015.
- Facilitate design risk review meetings and workshops.
- Liaise with the Principal Contractor to support effective risk management.
- Ensure the Health and Safety File is prepared, reviewed, and handed over to the client upon project completion.
- Provide advice to clients on their duties under CDM regulations.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of health and safety legislation and best practices.
- Support with Accreditations
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a CDM / Health & Safety / Design role within the construction industry.
- Strong working knowledge of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.
- NEBOSH Construction Certificate (or equivalent health & safety qualification).
- Professional membership (e.g., IOSH / APS) desirable.
- Experience working on projects across sectors such as commercial, residential, education, or infrastructure.
- Strong understanding of construction design processes and risk mitigation principles.
Key Competencies
- Ability to influence and challenge design decisions to improve safety outcomes.
- Proactive problem-solving ability.
- Excellent knowledge of construction health & safety legislation.
Key Skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent report writing and documentation skills.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
Desirable Attributes
- Experience acting as Principal Designer on medium to large-scale projects.
- Membership of the Association for Project Safety (APS).
- Full Driving Licence
- Experience in delivering CDM advisory services within a consultancy environment.
Performance Measures
- Demonstrable reduction of design-related risks.
- Successful regulatory compliance audits.
- Timely delivery of pre-construction documentation.
- Positive client and contractor feedback.
For more information on SGP, please visit our website at Stephen George + Partners – Architecture Company and Consultants
Benefits:
- 34 days holiday annually (this includes 10 pre-allocated days throughout the year).
- Hybrid working policy – allowance of up to 2 days working at home per week.
- Performance Reviews three times a year.
- Monthly 1:1’s with your line manager.
- Pension scheme.
- Cloud operating system, meaning you are backed by a data centre and not limited to the power of your laptop.
- Death in Service and Permanent Health Care insurances.
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