Location: Aylesbury
Overview
We’re looking for an experienced and forward‑thinking Health & Safety (CDM) Lead Officer to play a key role in ensuring safe, compliant and high‑quality delivery across Buckinghamshire Highways. This is a highly visible and influential position where your expertise in CDM Regulations 2015 and wider health and safety legislation will help shape safe working practices across the service.
As the subject matter expert, you’ll guide teams, strengthen our culture of safety, and champion collaborative working with our alliance partners to ensure that health and safety remains at the forefront of service delivery.
This is a part- time permanent position working 22.2 hours per week and the salary advertised will be pro-rata.
About us
Buckinghamshire Council is a relatively new organisation that combines the strengths and expertise of the previous five councils in the county to create positive change for local people, communities, and businesses. We are firmly focused on the future and have made a clear commitment to serve residents better and to provide stronger representation for Buckinghamshire, both locally and nationally.
Highways and Technical Services play a vital role in supporting our communities, keeping the county moving and ensuring our transport network is safe, resilient and well‑managed. We’re ambitious, collaborative and committed to continuous improvement. Joining our Highways & Technical Services team means contributing to essential public services and working with a range of internal and external partners to deliver positive outcomes for residents, businesses and road users.
As part of our ambition to deliver the very best highways service for Buckinghamshire, we have recently reshaped our service, creating a stronger, more resilient and forward‑looking structure. This transformation reflects both local priorities and significant national developments in the sector. With new initiatives emerging, including the introduction of Lane Rental and wider changes to streetworks and network management, we are now investing in a range of new and exciting roles that will help us meet the needs of our communities today and into the future. These posts offer a genuine opportunity to shape how we manage and improve our network, drive innovation.
About the role
As the Health & Safety (CDM) Lead Officer, you will provide expert guidance on compliance, drive improvements across the service, and support the full lifecycle of works commissioned by the service. You will act as a key liaison between internal teams, designers, contractors and alliance partners to ensure effective coordination of all health and safety matters.
Key Responsibilities
1. Provide expert support an guidance to the service, ensuring our duties and responsibilities under the CDM regulations 2015 are complied with and that risks are managed effectively throughout the lifecycle of works commissioned and ordered by the service.
2. Conduct risk assessments and implement measures to mitigate identified risks, ensuring that all foreseeable
3. Prepare and maintain health and safety files, including pre-construction information, ensuring documentation is kept up to date.
4. Monitor, investigate and report on incidents, near‑misses and overall H&S performance, ensuring effective follow‑up actions.
5. Provide specialist advice and guidance to internal teams, contractors and external stakeholders, promoting safe and compliant practice.
6. Research industry best practice, interpret emerging issues and present informed recommendations and reports to senior decision‑making groups.
7. Develop and implement H&S policies, procedures, training and improvement initiatives to strengthen safety culture and service compliance.
About you
You will be an experienced health and safety professional with a strong background in the highways or construction sector, bringing expert knowledge of CDM Regulations 2015 and wider H&S legislation. Confident in assessing complex issues, you combine excellent analytical skills with the ability to develop practical, innovative solutions and implement effective risk‑management measures. You will be a credible and influential communicator, able to build strong relationships, coordinate partnership working and provide clear, specialist advice to a wide range of stakeholders. Your collaborative approach, commitment to best practice and ability to drive service improvements will ensure health and safety remains at the forefront of Buckinghamshire Highways' delivery.
You will hold an appropriate professional qualification and maintain active membership of a recognised professional body relevant to the highways or engineering sector.