Senior Principal Designer & CDM Advisor

John Rowan and partners are looking to grow our existing team of Senior Principal Designers and CDM Advisors. This exciting role will involve working on a number of projects across public and private sectors on a mixture of new build, refurbishment, tall building remediation, and maintenance schemes.

The role involves working on multiple projects across London, Home Counties, and the Southeast, visiting sites and reporting, as well as representing John Rowan and Partners to clients and contractors. The Safety Compliance team is thriving, with an ever-growing client base with great opportunities for training and development potential.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who can demonstrate strong leadership qualities with a ‘can do’ attitude.

The role will include working closely with our clients and internal teams to deliver projects in a safe and compliant manner. Here at John Rowan and Partners we set high standards for Health and Safety and are looking for individuals who can undertake the CDMA/PD role with a professional, constructive, and collaborative approach.

Client relationships are key to our continued success and as such John Rowan and Partners strongly promote active client engagement. We place an important focus on providing our clients and internal teams with market leading Health and Safety advice and services.

• You will be fulfilling the duties of the Principal Designer as defined under CDM 2015 including where necessary carrying out the role of CDM-Advisor to support the client.
• You’ll have relevant experience making sure that multiple team members and duty holders such as the client, designers, contractors and other internal multidisciplinary team members at John Rowan and Partners coordinate and cooperate with each other and check that relevant duties are complied with.
• You’ll be planning, managing, monitoring and coordinating pre-construction phases of projects to identify, eliminate, or control significant and foreseeable risks relating to construction, maintenance, cleaning and using the building as a workplace.
• You’ll work with the client to gather preconstruction information, assess the adequacy, identify gaps and provide advice on how they might be filled and distribute to those that need it.
• You’ll be managing multiple projects for key clients to the business particularly focused on the high-rise residential refurbishment, development and commercial sector.
• You’ll be attending client meetings and carrying out H&S site inspections and delivering high quality reports to the client within agreed deadlines.
• You will be providing clear, concise, and practical Health and Safety advice, guidance and coaching to project teams throughout all stages of the project.
• You’ll be responsible for collating, preparing and issuing Health & Safety Files to the client.
• You’ll be responsible for fees, invoicing, closing out appointments and supporting debtor control.
• You’ll be responsible for exploring potential cross-sell opportunities across the wider Bellrock teams.

How will you be the change?

We believe every role is essential to providing that peace of mind for our customers - whatever part of the business you’re in. Because every role plays a part in driving us further. And everyone can be the change. That’s how deliver value for our customers, and building systems that lead the way

And as a Senior Principal Designer & CDM Advisor with John Rowan & Partners, you’ll do it by…

• You’re a confident, clear, and articulate communicator with effective interpersonal skills with both clients, contractors, and colleagues in verbal and written format.
• You’re comfortable with working autonomously and managing your own workload effectively.
• You have a natural curiosity for problem solving.
• You relish the challenge of working with external stakeholders.
• You have a passion for developing yourself and others.
• You’re an effective decision maker and an excellent team player.
• You have a natural ability to achieve ‘buy-in’ or ‘win over’ project teams to drive forward Health and Safety in a positive light.
• You want ownership, accountability, and responsibility
• You want to ‘make a difference’

What does it take?

If you’re ready to be the energy that helps us build our business, share our success, and really own it as a Senior Principal Designer & CDM Advisor, you’ll need…

• You have a minimum of 10 years’ experience in the construction industry with experience of CDM/Health and Safety issues in construction.
• You have excellent working knowledge and understanding of CDM 2015 and appropriate legislation.
• You have demonstrable previous experience in successfully delivering the Principal Designer and CDM Advisor roles in the residential refurbishment, development, and commercial sector.
• You ideally hold a NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
• You ideally are an incorporated member of the Association for Project Safety (IMaPs).
• You have a full and clean driver’s license.
• You will need a willingness to travel to varied sites across London, Home Counties, and the Southeast.
• You will need to be well motivated
• You will need to be a good communicator with interpersonal and organisational skills