CSI CDM Co-ordinator - #1781798

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The CDM Co-ordinator will be operationally responsible for supporting the CDM Manager in ensuring that Mitie are fulfilling and discharging our legal obligations under the CDM 2015 Regulations with regards to the planning, managing, monitoring and co-ordinating health and safety in the pre-construction phase, and coordinate construction health and safety through the construction phase to ensure that projects are carried out without risk to health and safety of workers or others who may be affected by the works.

The postholder will be Health and Safety qualified whose role is to carry out a desk top review of contractor's RAMS prior to projects starting and the issuing of the authority to work, advise the Project team and Client on health and safety issues during the planning and delivery phases of construction work and is someone who has and knowledge and experience of planning, management, construction, and communications.

Responsibilities Will Include Bit Not Limited To

The CDM Co-ordinator is broad role responsible for directly supporting Mitie Projects, our clients, designers, consultants, contractors, and others as appropriate to ensure compliance with H&S & the CDM Regulations.

The role in general will have the following objectives and responsibilities:

• Ensure the successful implementation, management, and compliance of the CDM 2015 Regulations, health and safety legislation and industry legislation within Mitie projects
• Champion the Mitie Projects Centre of Excellence and Mitie CDM and health and safety policies and procedures to ensure health and safety is embedded into everything we do
• Provide advice, guidance and support the Projects team through all RIBA stages with regard to CDM as necessary; enquiry/briefing, tender, mobilisation/construction delivery and practical completion and handover.
• Ensure the delivery of projects for, on behalf of or by Mitie are carried out in safe manner and that Mitie, our clients, designers, consultants, and contractors are aware of their roles, and fulfilling their responsibilities under the CDM Regulations
• Collaborate and communicate with all parties involved in a project, including Mitie, our clients, designers, consultants, contractors and health and safety personnel at the pre-construction and design stages, and through the construction phase as required
• Maintain and sustain professional contact with clients to be able to form strong working relationships and monitor customer satisfaction in terms of project risks and responsibilities
• Provide the right level of CDM guidance depending on the scale, risk, and complexity for each individual contract and project
• Support the development of Mitie Project Managers undertaking the role of the Principal Designer and/or Principal Contractor
• Collaborate with Mitie HSE, quality, and audit team communities to ensure a harmonised approach to compliance with both the Mitie Projects Centre of Excellence and Mitie CDM and health and safety policies and procedures
• Actively take part in Mitie CDM and Projects team meetings to share CDM and health and safety information, and identify and prioritises health and safety risk's that affect Mitie and our clients
  
  

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.
  
  

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 £10,000!

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 Shradha Singh at [email protected].

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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