AMS PSR

On behalf of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS), we are looking for a CDM Lead (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract. This is a hybrid working role (three days per week onsite - West Burton, Nottingham).

Job Purpose:

The CDM Lead is the organisational focal point for Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) compliance across the UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS) portfolio, including major infrastructure, experimental facilities, prototype systems, and enabling works for fusion development.

This role ensures that UKIFS effectively discharges its legal duties as Client under CDM, and that Principal Designers, Designers, Principal Contractors and Contractors operate safely, competently, and in alignment with UKIFS’s mission assurance, safety leadership, and quality expectations.

The CDM Lead provides expert guidance, governance, oversight, and assurance to ensure that all construction-related work supports UKIFS’s commitments to zero harm, regulatory excellence, and world-leading safety culture in support of the fusion mission.

As a CDM Lead, your main responsibilities will be to:

• Act as the organisational expert on CDM 2015 and related construction safety legislation.
• Develop, own and maintain UKIFS’s CDM governance framework, policies, procedures, standards and guidance.
• Ensure UKIFS fully meets its statutory duties as a CDM Client, including appointments, notifications, competence checks, and provision of information.
• Provide authoritative interpretation of CDM regulations to the Executive, Programme Directors, Project Managers, Designers and Contractors.
• Lead the development of robust Assurance Plans covering design, pre-construction, construction and handover phases.
• Provide expert CDM support to large-scale, novel or high-hazard construction and installation projects.
• Facilitate early-phase design reviews to embed safety-by-design principles.
• Advise project teams on roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and competency requirements.
• Support procurement teams in embedding CDM requirements in contracts and supply-chain engagements.
• Participate in project gate reviews, readiness assessments, and safety assurance boards.

Essential:

• Chartered membership of a relevant professional body (e.g., IOSH, ICE, IStructE, APS, CIOB).
• Extensive experience applying CDM 2015 in major infrastructure, energy, industrial, nuclear or highly complex engineering projects.
• Demonstrable competence as a Principal Designer Advisor / CDM Advisor or equivalent senior construction safety role.
• Strong understanding of engineering design processes, design risk management and safety-by-design.
• Proven track record in providing Client-side assurance and governance.
• Excellent communication skills, able to influence senior leaders and challenge constructively.
• Experience working in high-hazard, regulated, or safety-critical industries.
• Strong safety leadership and integrity-first mindset with ability to balance regulatory compliance with programme delivery pressures.
• Confident decision-maker under uncertainty or ambiguity.

Desirable:

• Experience in nuclear, fusion, or advanced scientific facilities.
• Understanding of mission assurance, quality systems, and integrated safety management frameworks.
• NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent high-level health and safety qualification.
• Experience working with complex supply chains and multi-disciplinary design teams.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".