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Health & Safety Consultant / Senior

Salary
Location Leeds
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This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

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.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced CDM Principal Designer seeking to develop their career 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 and be ready for the next step in their career.

To be successful in this role you will

  • Act as the Principal Designer as defined under CDM 2015 on a range of projects across sectors such as healthcare, education, 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.

The skills and experience you need to have for this role

Essential:

  • NEBOSH Construction Certificate (or higher) or equivalent health and safety qualification.
  • Extensive 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 communication skills.
  • Effective time management and organisation.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Teams and Associated software

Desirable:

  • Degree or equivalent in a construction-related discipline.
  • 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 1,000+ 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.

Ridge core values 1. Quality and reliability Pressing for superior results - every time. 2. Agile and flexible Deep listening, a true understanding and workable, bespoke solutions in response. 3. Proactive and creative One step ahead, we dare to imagine a brighter world. 4. Entrepreneurial and dynamic Our inner spirit for learning, discovery and innovation inspires opportunities.

The benefits package we have put together for you supports every aspect of your life.

Annual
leave

A healthy holiday allowance that starts at 25 days pa, plus the option to buy, carry over or sell.

Community
spirit

You can take three volunteering days each year to spend time on causes close to your heart.

Mental
health

Mental Health First Aiders are here to support you, backed up by Unum’s Help@hand app.

Financial benefits

A path to peace of mind: life assurance, pension scheme and income protection.

Physical
wellbeing

Your health is a priority for us too, so we offer medical insurance, private GP access and discounted gym membership.

Flexible
working

Our flexible approach to hybrid working is there to suit you, your family and your team.

Career development

A pathway at Ridge that’s focused on your professional, personal or educational aspirations.

Extra
benefits

Performance bonus, car allowance and more based on your role - and progression.

We believe that everyone performs their best when they feel like they belong and can be their true selves at work. As an equal opportunities’ employer, we will support you to ensure you have everything you need to be successful and achieve your best in your career at Ridge. If you’d like to discuss accessibility, accommodations or adjustments during your application and selection process, please contact us at workwithus@ridge.co.uk and we will work with you to ensure you feel included and supported.

A polite note to Recruitment Agencies
We enjoy great relationships with our agency partners within our framework, and fully believe in the value of a blended approach to finding the best talent. However, we are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from agency partners at this time – any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownerships on any introduction that you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

We are committed to nurturing strong partnerships within our agency framework, but there are occasions where we looking to enlist the help of others. If you would be interested in working with us in the future, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

A polite note to recruitment agencies

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.
If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

We are recruiting for this role directly and aren’t seeking support from our agency partners. Any unsolicited CV introductions won’t be honoured, and we won’t grant candidate ownership on any introductions you make for roles that haven’t been briefed and released to you by our Talent Acquisition team.

If you are a recruitment agency who doesn’t currently work with Ridge but would like to, please send a message to workwithus@ridge.co.uk, and we’ll reach out to you should there be an opportunity.

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