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  • Posted By: Hays - Construction & Property
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  • Date Posted: 21st Jul 2008
  • Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
  • Location: East Lothian
  • Reference Code: 122803
  • Views Since Posting: 175
  • Full Description:

    Our client are oneof Scotland's foremost providers of CDM Co-ordination and information management services, seeks a CDM Co-ordinator to support the existing team based in Stirling, but working on projects in Glasgow, Edinburgh, the North-East and the Highlands.

    Successful candidates will be responsible for delivering the practices CDM Co-ordinator service in advising and assisting clients and design teams to carry out their duties under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 in connection with a range of interesting and challenging projects including commercial and residential developments and PFI/PPP Projects.

    This will involve
    representing the practice at design meetings
    identifying and discussing with the design team significant health and safety issues
    managing information requirements

    The position is largely based in our Stirling office, but will involve attendance at some project meetings, mostly in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

    Although health and safety is at the core of our activities, specific experience in health and safety is less important than an understanding of the process of managing it. We have an established management system to assist the processes, and long-term training will be given, if required, leading to professional qualifications.

    The CDM Co-ordinator has an important duty to advise clients on the overall health and safety implications of the design of construction projects. The duties are determined by legislation, and will ensure that the design of construction projects takes into account health and safety issues during construction and maintenance of buildings and civil engineering projects. The Co-ordinator is required to assist the client for a project in ensuring that risks are eliminated through appropriate design, but has no responsibility for the actual management of health or safety on site.

    Suitable candidates will have experience of the design or construction process, or of managing health and safety in construction, and will probably be of graduate status. They may come from an architectural or engineering discipline, though candidates with a health and safety background may be suitable. They will:

    Have experience of the design and construction processes.
    Be able to identify the significant health and safety issues associated with aconstruction project.
    Beable to question the design assumptions and challenge the design teams decisions in a diplomatic butcredible manner.
    Have the maturity and experience to represent the practice at design meetings
    Have an interest in or experience of the implementation of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.



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