47 - Technical Developer (Construction HS&E)

Product Management

Construction health, safety and environment Technical Developer

Location: Peterborough

The role

Applications are welcomed for the role of technical developer in construction health, safety and environment to join a professional, dynamic and forward thinking team of technical developers within our Product Management team.

The CITB product management team are responsible for many of the CITB key publications and training and assessment products, ensuring they are aligned to industry needs, are engaging, innovative, have maximum impact and continue to develop and improve as industry and technologies change

As a Technical Developer you will be responsible for decision making in your specific expertise of construction health, safety and environment in collaboration with a project team. You will have significant impact on the strategy and development of CITB products, with responsibility for maintaining and developing technical content.

Key activities

• Staying abreast of market developments in the sphere of construction health safety and environment and responding proactively
• Translate technical materials into product content such as the production of the Construction site safety (GE700) publication or CITB health, safety and environment test
• Be part of a vibrant professional project groups and deliver against work packages that are assigned to you in a range of interesting challenging topics.
• Attend and input into external stakeholder meetings as the technical expert to demonstrate collaboration between CITB and industry to meet the training demands of a wide range of occupations and ultimately improve standards of health and safety across the industry.
• As part of the development team, be the subject matter expert within Product Management for construction health, safety and environment

About you

Key attributes for this role are that you will have extensive knowledge, and experience of working in construction environments, in the area of health, safety and environment and may have a specific skillset in construction health, safety or environment. You could have gained this knowledge and experience through a variety of previous roles, with the key requirement being your ability to use your expertise to create and update content in a variety of products, including courses, assessments, publications and digital products.

As a minimum, you will hold a NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety (RQF/CQFW Level 3), or you will be currently working towards the NEBOSH National Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (RQF/CQFW Level 6)

You will have experience of being able to work to detailed project plans, with excellent time management skills, along with highly developed written skills and be a confident presenter.

You will have the ability to be able to translate technical material into product content for a range of audiences’ from operatives, supervisors and managers and be committed to maintaining your own knowledge of up to date legislation at all times.

You will be able to communicate effectively at all levels both internally and with external stakeholders.

The post is a grade D: £34,894 to £41,113 per annum

The role profile attached is generic to cover all subject matters required of Technical Developers. The specialism required for this vacancy is construction health, safety and environment and the details the essential criteria required for the role.