Main duties 

The CDM Co-ordinator will work closely with the CDM Manager and will be pro-active and self-sufficient in ensuring that Mitie meet our legal obligations under the CDM Regulations, including allowance for validating RAMS and issuing Permits/Authority to Work. The role will provide Mitie, our clients, designers, and suppliers with CDM Management services as required to assist all parties in meeting their statutory duties in relation to CDM 2015.  

Main duties: 

• Ensure client engagement and liaison throughout all stages of a project. 

• Advise and support the client where required with the development of the client brief. 

• Advise and assist the client where required in the appointments of designers and contractors, and review procurement methods. 

• Notification of F10 to the HSE, where required. 

• Ensure effective communication between all parties including Mitie, our client, designers, and the principal contractor/contractors and encourage regular progress meetings to be undertaken as necessary. 

• Assist the client to identify and gather pre-construction information and distribute to designers, the principal contractor. 

• Undertake site visits to audit contractors on their H&S management in line with hier agreed safe system of work 

• Assist in ensuring health and safety risks are identified and discussed by all parties; add to the project risk register. 

• Review and assist in the preparation of the Construction Phase Health and Safety Plans when required. 

• Undertake desk top formal risk assessment and method statement reviews. 

• Ensure all CDM documentation and supporting information for each project from all parties are available. 

• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of their work and the health and safety risks involved. 

• Provide evidence that the workforce has the necessary skills, knowledge, training and experience to carry out the work. 

• Confirm that they have sufficient resource levels to do the work. 

• Attend site to undertake site inspections/audits 

Additional duties: 

• Undertake CDM health and safety inspections of live projects. 

• Assist Project Managers with Mitie and external project audits. 

• Deliver CDM training and workshops to Mitie and others as necessary to ensure continuous development of CDM and health and safety competencies. 

• Assist with management reports, newsletters and bulletins as needed by the Projects teams. 

• Advise on a range of specialist areas, e.g., fire management, hazardous substances, asbestos, temporary works, work at height, confined spaces, and demolition, etc. 

• Attend and fully participate in training and appraisal activities as required for role. 

• keep up to date with new and revised legislation and maintain a working knowledge of CDM and health and safety legislation and any developments. Communicate and mange changes to the Projects team and wider Mitie community, as necessary. 

• Keep personal CPD up to date of professional organisations. 

Person Specification 

The successful candidate will meet the high expectations of our demanding customer base and internal colleagues; we are looking for candidates who are ambitious, entrepreneurial, and confident in themselves and their abilities.  

The candidate needs to be creative and think innovatively about how we can continually improve as a team, in the way we and our suppliers work; be pragmatic, pro-active, empowered, energetic, assertive, and commercially savvy with a heap of initiative and keen to drive themselves and us forward. 

Personal specification: 

• Strong client and customer focus, with diplomacy skills and an approachable personality that invokes trust and respect from clients, project teams and others involved throughout a project. 

• A team player with a ‘can do' attitude who is outgoing, polite, personable, respectful. 

• Patience and diplomacy because the profession requires a collaborative approach. 

• Self-motivation and ability to work both independently and as part of a team to deliver a high quality of CDM services and support. 

• Excellent written and spoken communicator to explain CDM and health and safety processes to a broad range of clients and individuals. 

• Excellent presentations skills 

• Positive approach to adaptations of client and project requirements 

• Negotiating skills where required to effectively communicate the need to implement and maintain safety standards that may compromise speed or efficiency. 

• The ability to understand and analyse complex information and present it simply and accurately. 

• An investigative mind 

• Excellent attention to detail 

• A flexible approach to work 

• Physical fitness if your work will involve time on large-scale plants or on outdoor sites. 

• A driving licence - essential for jobs involving travel between sites. 

• Able to drive long distances when required, and occasional overnight stays away from home. 

Personal qualifications and skills: 

• A minimum of three years' experience in a CDM Management role 

• Strong understanding of the CDM Regulations 2015 

• Previous experience advising on CDM compliance. 

• NEBOSH Construction Certificate and/or General Certificate/QHSE qualification. 

• Registered Member of Association of Project Safety (IMaPS or CMaPS) (desirable). 

• Professional Qualifications in a design or engineering related discipline (desirable). 

• Experience of the construction industry. 

• Experience of CDM delivery to both private and public sector clients on a broad mixture of projects. 

• Experience in other specialist areas such as asbestos, temporary works, fire safety in construction and confined space helpful, but not essential. 

• An understanding of the general principals of prevention and risk reduction in design process. 

• Full computer literacy, particularly with MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams.