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ROLE: Project Principal Designer Lead
HOURS: 40 hours per week
LOCATION: Mobile region
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day.
We're looking for a Principal Designer (CDM and Building Regulations) who will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of construction health and safety and regulatory compliance across Mitie's Central Government Portfolio.
Role Responsibilities:
1. Ensure effective implementation, management, and compliance with CDM and Building Regulations, health and safety legislation, and industry best practices across all Mitie projects.
2. Promote Mitie's CDM and health and safety policies to embed a strong safety culture across all project phases.
3. Provide expert advice, guidance, and support to project teams throughout all RIBA stages; from enquiry and briefing, through design, tender, mobilisation, construction delivery, to practical completion and handover.
4. Oversee the safe delivery of projects carried out by, for, or on behalf of Mitie, ensuring all stakeholders—clients, designers, consultants, and contractors—understand and fulfil their duties under both CDM and Building Regulations.
5. Facilitate clear communication and collaboration among all stakeholders during both the pre-construction/design and construction phases.
6. Build and maintain strong professional relationships with clients, tracking satisfaction and performance in managing project risks and responsibilities.
7. Tailor CDM and Building Regulation management and support appropriate to the scale, complexity, and risk profile of each project.
8. Collaborate with HSE, quality, and audit teams to ensure consistent alignment with Mitie's policies and procedures.
9. Actively contribute to projects team meetings by sharing insights, lessons learned, and identifying priority health and safety risks affecting Mitie and its clients.
10. Conduct site visits to identify existing hazards and client-imposed restrictions for inclusion in the pre-construction information.
11. Ensure that health and safety risks are identified, communicated, and captured in the project risk register.
12. Oversee the handover of relevant information from designers and contractors for inclusion in the Health and Safety File during construction.
13. Compile and maintain the Health and Safety File as the project progresses.
14. Deliver the final Health and Safety File including Operations & Maintenance manuals in the required format and within agreed timescales following project completion.
15. Conduct CDM health and safety inspections on live project sites to monitor compliance and identify areas for improvement.
16. Support Project Managers during both internal Mitie audits and external project audits.
17. Deliver CDM and Building Regulation training sessions and workshops to Mitie personnel and external stakeholders.
18. Provide advice on a range of specialist topics, including fire safety, hazardous materials, asbestos management, temporary works, work at height, confined spaces, and demolition activities.
19. Stay informed on new and evolving legislation and maintain expert working knowledge of CDM, Building Regulations, and wider health and safety regulations.
Required Qualifications:
20. Experienced Principal Designer.
21. Working knowledge of the CDM Regulations
22. Working Knowledge of UK Building Regulations
23. Experience advising on compliance within complex projects
24. Completion of a two-day Principal Designer training course (Desirable or willing to work towards)
25. NEBOSH Construction Certificate, General Certificate, or comparable QHSE qualification
26. Association for Project Safety (APS) membership — IMaPS desirable or willing to work towards
27. Professional qualification in design or engineering discipline (Desirable or willing to work towards)
28. Experience with public and private sector construction projects
29. Knowledge in areas such as asbestos, temporary works, fire safety, or confined spaces is beneficial
30. Understanding of prevention principles and design risk reduction
31. Proficient with Microsoft Office, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
32. Candidate must hold or be able to achieve SC level security clearance
What's in it for you?
33. Build projects that matter. Deliver real impact. Grow your career with Mitie.
34. You'll work on high-profile and meaningful construction projects that truly make a difference, with real responsibility and full ownership of project delivery from start to finish.
35. Mitie is committed to supporting your professional growth, offering clear opportunities for career progression.
36. You'll work in an environment that prioritises safety, quality, sustainability, and innovation, ensuring the highest standards are upheld across all projects.
37. Competitive salary and benefits package.
There's a place for you at Mitie — join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Pankaj Chaudhary at .