Ridge and Partners LLP
Assistant Health & Safety Consultant
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What’s The Opportunity
We are recruiting an Assistant Health and Safety Consultant / CDM Principal Designer to help our established team in the Birmingham office deliver services to clients across a variety of industry sectors.
This is an entry level role, and applicants are not expected to have significant experience. The role will involve supervision and on-the-job training. Previous experience may be beneficial but is not essential. It is desirable for applicants to have some qualifications in Health and Safety for example NEBOSH Construction Certificate.
The role is mostly office based but will involve some travel to client’s offices and construction sites.
What You Will Do In This Role
Client and pre-construction support: Help the client collect and collate pre-construction information and assist in compiling the pre-construction information document for all duty holders. Meeting participation: Attend design team meetings, client meetings, and progress meetings to help ensure that health and safety principles are integrated into the project from the outset. Document preparation: Assist in preparing and reviewing the Health & Safety file at the end of the project and helping with the submission of F10 notifications to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Design support: Assist the Principal Designer in their duty to plan, manage, and monitor health and safety during the pre-construction phase. Risk management: Support the creation and review of project risk registers and designer risk assessments. Site attendance: Attending the site during the pre-construction phase to collect information. Often attending during the construction phase to carry out inspections and audits to ensure the client’s duties are fulfilled. Compliance and training: Help ensure other designers and duty holders comply with their duties and assist in providing relevant information to them. Working with inhouse (Ridge designers and project managers) and external project teams.
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Good communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to work effectively in a team. Eagerness to learn and develop Proactive attitude Ability to manage multiple projects and work to deadlines Interest in construction Experience of report writing
The skills and experience you need to have for this role
Microsoft Office software Awareness of the *Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM). Experience in construction-related health and safety consultancy.
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