Senior Cdm

**Senior CDM & Health & Safety Consultant**

We are looking for a Senior CDM & Health & Safety Consultant to ensure SOCOTEC’s client projects are suitably managed, ensuring the Health & Safety (H&S) of all who might be affected by the work, including members of the public, specifically under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and other associated legislation. Be responsible for the delivery of professional CDM and H&S consultancy within a geographical area, or with selected customers, as specified by your line manager and achieve effective and efficient operation in accordance with SOCOTEC’s policies and their relative priorities.

The tasks you will undertake will include (but are not limited to):

- Carry out agreed procedures to provide effective and efficient CDM and H&S services, with mínimal assistance, on a range of projects in terms of size and complexity and location.
- Liaise with applicants, agents, consultants or statutory bodies, duty holders and members of the public.
- Prepare and provide customer quotations.
- Work with our customers to identify the right CDM or H&S service according to complexity and risk of the project, providing advice and helping the duty holders fulfil their obligations.
- Proactive liaison with design teams to identify key hazards and interfaces with other designers.
- Facilitation of risk workshops for the project and working with individual designers to find suitable mitigation measures, or a reduction of those risks to more acceptable levels.
- Identification and collation of relevant information required by different team members ensuring that suitable information is available at the right time throughout the lifecycle of the project.
- Liaison with the Construction team to ensure that there is an ongoing exchange of health and safety information and that mitigation measures are being implemented.
- Preparation of final health and safety fie containing information in accordance with Client needs.
- Work on your own initiative to actively undertake, monitor and close out projects allocated to you.
- Attend (and support members of the team as necessary at) high profile meetings with existing and potential major accounts
- Seek Director involvement in any high-profile meetings with existing and potential major accounts.
- Provide Technical and procedural support to members of your team, and other SOCOTEC departments as requested.
- Take ownership of major accounts and complex projects on behalf of SOCOTEC and manage customer expectations accordingly.
- Play a key role in the development of and support to SOCOTEC’s Graduate and Apprentice Training programme.
- Assist with and comply with any recommendations which come from regular audits of processes and job files. Assist when asked in the delivery of inhouse or external customer CPD sessions.
- Oversight and approval (where necessary) of surveyor quotes.
- Positively promote SOCOTEC’s CDM and complimentary services.
- Support, contribute and comply with quality processes as directed by departmental procedures/management.
- Advise your line manager, or other appropriate manager, if your duties and responsibilities cannot be properly performed.
- Attend any committees or working groups of SOCOTEC or the client as may be required and carry out any other associated duties as directed by your line manager.
- To take responsibility for maintaining your own health and attendance and comply with relevant health and safety, equalities and diversity requirements for SOCOTEC.
- Demonstrate the effective use of the range of communication methods available: written, spoken, electronic, and use these methods in appropriate ways suitable to the context and situation.
- Promote good performance, developing clear, structured and efficient ways of managing workload and delivering results.
- Demonstrate the effective and efficient use of the full range of resources provided by SOCOTEC.
- Understand the needs and requirements of your customers, to provide excellent customer service, and to involve customers in the improvement of services. Highlight any Business Development opportunities that you encounter.
- Be involved, when asked, in any marketing opportunities including exhibitions, seminars and industry events.
- Actively foster good working relationships with colleagues and customers in order to collectively achieve SOCOTEC’s direction and ambition and assist your team to progress towards achieving agreed goals and objectives.
- Play an active role in your structured and constructive appraisal, understand your objectives and action any appropriate development needs.
- Assist with any quality audits of processes and job files.
- To effectively communicate the organisation’s vision and values both internally and externally. Promote a culture of openness and understanding, ensuring important information is shared promptly.
- Foster positive relationships with all agencies and partners relevant to the