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Principal Designer or CDM Advisor
- glasgow, city of glasgow, G1, United Kingdom
- Permanent·On-site
- Full time
Job Description
About The Role
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Currie & Brown is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Designer to join our Glasgow team, supporting a wide and varied portfolio of projects across Scotland's West Coast.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in delivering high-quality Principal Designer and CDM advisory services across multiple sectors including demolition, new build, public realm, education, healthcare, logistics, and more.
You'll work closely with clients and design teams, ensuring health & safety is embedded at every stage of the project lifecycle, from concept through to completion.
What You'll Be Doing
• Discharging the duties of Principal Designer in line with CDM Regulations 2015
• Advising clients on their duties and supporting them in achieving compliance
• Leading design risk management across all RIBA stages
• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to identify, reduce, and mitigate hazard and risk
• Supporting and ensuring design teams apply the Principles of Prevention to drive safer design outcomes
• Producing and reviewing key CDM documentation, including Pre-construction information Reports, Construction Phase Plans, Risk Registers and Health & Safety Files
• Ensuring project teams and stakeholders are fulfilling their CDM responsibilities
• Delivering strategic, practical solutions to complex design and construction challenges
• Conducting CDM Site Audits and the provision of key findings reports
What We're Looking For
• Proven experience delivering Principal Designer services
• A strong understanding of construction processes across multiple sectors
• Ability to confidently advise clients and influence design teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Relevant qualifications appropriate for a Senior Principal Designer
• Membership of a professional body (APS, IOSH)
About You
About Us
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group. xwwtmva
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.
Considering making an application for this job Check all the details in this job description, and then click on Apply.
Currie & Brown is looking for an experienced Senior Principal Designer to join our Glasgow team, supporting a wide and varied portfolio of projects across Scotland's West Coast.
This is an exciting opportunity to take a lead role in delivering high-quality Principal Designer and CDM advisory services across multiple sectors including demolition, new build, public realm, education, healthcare, logistics, and more.
You'll work closely with clients and design teams, ensuring health & safety is embedded at every stage of the project lifecycle, from concept through to completion.
What You'll Be Doing
• Discharging the duties of Principal Designer in line with CDM Regulations 2015
• Advising clients on their duties and supporting them in achieving compliance
• Leading design risk management across all RIBA stages
• Coordinating with multidisciplinary teams to identify, reduce, and mitigate hazard and risk
• Supporting and ensuring design teams apply the Principles of Prevention to drive safer design outcomes
• Producing and reviewing key CDM documentation, including Pre-construction information Reports, Construction Phase Plans, Risk Registers and Health & Safety Files
• Ensuring project teams and stakeholders are fulfilling their CDM responsibilities
• Delivering strategic, practical solutions to complex design and construction challenges
• Conducting CDM Site Audits and the provision of key findings reports
What We're Looking For
• Proven experience delivering Principal Designer services
• A strong understanding of construction processes across multiple sectors
• Ability to confidently advise clients and influence design teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Relevant qualifications appropriate for a Senior Principal Designer
• Membership of a professional body (APS, IOSH)
About You
About Us
Why choose Currie & Brown?
Unlike some businesses, we prioritise for the long term and honour our commitments. We are compassionate and inclusive in the way we approach our work, and always look to invest in our people's futures. Be it a desire to work internationally, a drive to progress, or even a curiosity to operate in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage - providing advice, support and the structure to achieve. That is why so many of us have established and built successful careers here for so long.
We don't offer just a job we offer a career with clear structured route to progression, and a track record of making international mobility happen with international moves encouraged on a permanent or secondment basis.
We are an international industry leader - Working for us provides the chance to work for a leading brand with a focus on excellence, being digitally-led in our approach, we present the chance to work on some of the world's most prestigious projects and for some of the world's top clients.
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day and that is why we firmly believe equality, diversity and inclusion should be taken seriously. Diverse people, backgrounds and experiences develop the most innovative of ideas, they are essential to our success, that is why we actively encourage applications from all backgrounds.
With the backing of our parent company, we are a truly independent business. Our people are empowered to make quick, agile decisions, as well as work directly with some of the world's brightest partner brands in our industry through Dar Group. xwwtmva
We offer comprehensive benefits packages in all our global regions which have been specifically tailored to offer additional rewards to our employees from entry level to senior executives.