Design Risk Consultant

Description

You’ll support the practice in delivering the Principal Designer role under CDM and the Building Safety Act, while helping shape how Safety by Design is applied across some of the world’s most complex and high-profile projects.

Instead, this role sits alongside architects and engineers, working at the design stage to anticipate construction risk, challenge assumptions, and embed safety into the way buildings are conceived, detailed, and delivered — in the UK and internationally.

• Working directly with architectural and engineering teams to identify, manage, and mitigate design-stage construction risk
• Acting as (or supporting) the Principal Designer role on UK projects, and applying equivalent principles internationally
• Operating as part of the Technical Design Group, alongside fire engineering, façade engineering, QA, and specifications — supporting all studios globally
• Supporting best practice across the practice through guidance, training, and collaboration
• Managing and developing design risk registers and supporting design risk assessments
• Design first: You’ll influence projects before they’re built, not after problems arise
• Review a drawing
• Identify potential construction or design risks
• Engaging confidently with internal teams, clients, consultants, and external stakeholders
• Reviewing drawings and technical information to anticipate buildability, temporary works, and construction sequencing risks

Requirements

If you can read drawings, understand construction methodology, and talk confidently with designers about risk in design, you’re likely to be a strong fit.

You do not need to be a qualified architect or engineer — but you must understand how buildings are designed and built.

• Site-experienced engineers or coordinators who’ve moved closer to design
• Trade-only experience with no design or engineering literacy
• Mechanical, structural, or building services engineering (including part-qualified or non-chartered)
• Pure health & safety or inspection-led backgrounds
• Construction professionals with strong design exposure
• Design-side CDM professionals with genuine drawing literacy

Benefits

• Balanced culture: A professional, supportive team with a genuine 9am–6pm working pattern
• Long-term commitment: This role has full management buy-in and is intended as a long-term position within the practice
• Global exposure: Work across UK and international projects

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance