CDM Principal Designer

**Company Description** **Work with Us. Change the World.** At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. **Job Description** AECOM is offering an exciting role for a CDM Principal Designer to delivering one of the largest projects within our Energy portfolio. As a national team, this role can be based at any of our primary UK offices. A CDM Principal Designer in our Energy Team will be instrumental in fostering positive engagement, providing support, advice, and guidance, as well as disseminating CDM knowledge across our projects, advocating best practices and reinforcing our commitment to health, safety, and wellbeing in all that we do. The role involves collaborating with our design teams, contractors and clients to provide Principal Designer services within the energy industry. You will report to the Environment & Energy Principal Designer Lead for the UK&I region and aid in the development of our Principal Designer resources, contributing to an environment that encourages professional growth. **_Here’s what you’ll do:_** + Work with our design teams and other stakeholders to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the pre-construction phase of our projects. + Coordinate with our design teams and other stakeholders to ensure the general principles of prevention are applied, during the pre-construction phase of our projects. + Work with our design teams and other stakeholders to ensure compliance with their duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. + Coordinate with all duty holders on our projects. + Assist our clients in the provision of the pre-construction information. + Laise with the principal contractors and share information relevant to the construction phase. + Prepare the Health and Safety File for the client at project handover. **Qualifications** **Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?** _Here’s what we’re looking for:_ + Experience in delivering the Principal Designer role on energy or geographically long projects (roads, pipelines, etc.), ensuring effective and efficient delivery of duties under CDM + High level of commitment to quality, ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to work on multiple projects/business initiatives at any one time. + Effectively communicates requirements with clarity and precision, demonstrating strong proficiency in both verbal and written English. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at ReasonableAccommodations@aecom.com. At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you! **Additional Information** Interested in the role or curious about life at AECOM? Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to explore our AECOM voices, employee stories, latest projects, and much more! For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn (Melissa Moody). **About AECOM** AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. **Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity** You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** J10151335 **Business Line:** Energy **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** Europe & India **Career Area:** Safety, Health & Environment **Work Location Model:** Hybrid