CDM Advisor - Health and Safety

Job Description

CDM Advisor
Circa £45,000 - £50,000​ per annum + Car Allowance

​​Full time/37 hrs a week/permanent​

Location: Based location flexible across the Anglian Water Region & Home working

​​Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, for this role you’ll be working from home, with your base location being one of our offices across the Anglian Water region.

​​Join the UK’s largest water company!​

Anglian Water is committed to ensuring the highest standards of health and safety across all our projects. We are looking for a dedicated and knowledgeable CDM Advisor to be embedded in our capital delivery vehicles. This role is crucial in ensuring compliance with the CDM Regulations and supporting our commitment to safety and excellence.

As a CDM Advisor, you will be embedded in the Maintenance and Engineering Services team. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure that all projects within your portfolio comply with the CDM Regulations. You will provide expert advice and guidance on relevant legislation, conduct competency assessments, and perform site audits to ensure compliance.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

​​-Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

-Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

-Personal private health care

-Annual bonus scheme

-26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

-Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

-Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme

-Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks

-Life Cover at 8x your salary

-Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

What you’ll be doing:

• ​​Ensure that all work activities are assessed using the CDM Assessment tool to determine if they are maintenance, or the CDM complexity.

• Ensure that CDM strategies are in place and defined duty holders.

• Review the suitability of PCI/Design and Design Risk Management within Maintenance and Engineering Services team.

• Oversee and advise on the preparation of Pre-Construction Information (PCI), and highlight the need for any necessary further information that may be required.

• Ensure that designs comply to Anglian Water’s Management of CDM (MoCDM) and that Design Checklists are suitability complete to meet Safe To Operate (STO) requirements.

• Review the suitability of Construction Phase Plans incl. adequate management arrangements and welfare provisions where necessary.

• Provide assistance with review of Risk Assessment and Method Statement on high level risk activities.

• Conduct CDM audits on projects to ensure that CDM is compliant at design phase and construction phase.

• Provide CDM compliance data for the CDM Team data reports.

​ What does it take to be successful?

• ​​A qualification in engineering or health and safety

• NEBOSH Certificate (if not Construction Cert., must demonstrate other construction training)

• Experience of working in a multi discipline design team and of the application of H&S principals in design

• A good understanding of the operational and maintenance requirements of water industry assets

• An understanding of construction processes and procedures

• Membership of an appropriate engineering or health and safety institution

• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders

• Problem solving capabilities, flexibility and commitment.

• Good IT skills, familiarity with Microsoft Office 365.

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Inclusion at Anglian Water:

​​Don't meet every requirement on the job advert? Please still apply! Having a wealth of people from different backgrounds and with different experiences introduces new ways of thinking which transforms how we work. Challenging our thinking and decision-making helps us to continually improve. It also better reflects our region and the customers and communities that we serve every single day. Even if you are not successful for this particular role, your application could open other opportunities.​

Closing date: 02/03/2026