Principal Designer in Sevenoaks, Kent

FM Conway is recruiting for a skilled and driven Principal Designer to join our dynamic Consultancy division. In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring we consistently meet our statutory responsibilities under the Construction, Design, and Management Regulations by coordinating desk risk reviewing meetings and maintaining the associated design risk register. This is a full time, permanent position, based from our Head Office in Sevenoaks, Kent.

The duties of the Principal Designer will include:

• Applying the principles of prevention to identify and eliminate unusual and significant hazards as well as control foreseeable risks
• Ensuring all designers, internally and externally, are competent to undertake their role under CDM regulations
• Developing compliance reports, building and maintaining excellent relationships with the client
• Assisting with procedural development and training roll outs
• Visiting sites to monitor progress and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations
• Compiling pre-construction information to ensure all safety critical information is highlighted
• Calculating the hours required to undertake the Principal Design role on a project-by-project basis and ensuring the clients are up to date with this

What skills and experience do you need? We are seeking a qualified Principal Designer who has experience within the highways sector. You will have a minimum of a HNC or equivalent NVQ level 4 in civil engineering. You must hold a Health and Safety qualification such as NEBOSH and a full UK driving licence.

What benefits will you receive? As our Principal Designer, we will offer you a range of fantastic benefits including career and professional development, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, opportunities for internal and external training and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. Our Sevenoaks head office boasts its own gym which you will have free access to, we will also offer you a range of health and well-being benefits including 24-hour advice lines and support from our mental health first aiders. Based from our Sevenoaks Head Office you will have free access to our on-site gym and subsidised restaurant.

A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Consultancy Services Division: FM Conway is a family run business with over 60 years' experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. As a family business the heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family. The Consultancy Services division offer specialist design services to several high-profile clients across London and the Southeast. We are a dynamic team covering urban realm, private developer, HVM and maintenance schemes. As a division, we are constantly looking to improve our offer to our clients. We are involved in new initiatives including the design and production of new surfacing materials through to using A.I. to undertake highway inspection.

So, if you would like to join the team as our Principal Designer then please click ‘apply' today, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing Date: 15/05/2025

FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities, and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for. We look forward to receiving your application!