Site Manager - HMP Highland, Inverness

Balfour Beatty plc; Inverness; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction firm is seeking a Site Manager in Inverness to oversee the development of a significant prison project. The position involves ensuring safety compliance, leading a team, and managing project quality. Candidates should possess a strong background in construction management, with an emphasis on effective leadership and project delivery.

Benefits

Smart working options

25 days paid annual leave

Family friendly policies

Pension and share incentive plan

Qualifications

• Experience managing construction work packages on complex builds.
• Proactive and ethical leadership style promoting safety.
• Strong knowledge of project management, safety and quality processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead work packages, ensuring safety, quality, and logistics compliance.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Monitor subcontractor performance and drive quality assurance.

Skills

Leadership

Project Management

Safety Compliance

Quality Control

Logistics Planning

Education

Experience in construction management

Professional Chartership (pursuing or achieved)

Tools

BIM

Digital Planning Tools

Job description

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About The Role

Job Title: Site Manager – HMP Highland, Inverness

Location: HMP Highland, Eastfield Way, Inverness

Project Type: Prison Build

Company: Balfour Beatty – Regional Scotland

About Us

Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure and construction group. We finance, develop, build, and maintain innovative and efficient projects that underpin daily life, supports communities, and enables economic growth. Our unparalleled expertise and resources ensure that we deliver high-quality projects safely, on time, and within budget.

Now is a great time to join us. As a leading international construction group with a healthy pipeline of work, we’re growing our teams. Shape a career to be proud of as part of an award-winning team.

Join us in shaping the future of custodial infrastructure at HMP Highland – Scotland’s first new prison in over a decade.

We’re looking for a Site Manager to take ownership of site-level leadership on critical packages of work, delivering excellence in safety, quality, logistics, and technical assurance on a major project that matters.

What you'll be doing

As Site Manager, You Will

• Lead small value or low-complexity work packages or play a key role within larger, high-value packages.
• Manage safety excellence on-site, ensuring full compliance with Balfour Beatty standards and the Building Safety Act.
• Coordinate programme delivery using short interval control, planning software, and digital tools.
• Oversee subcontractor performance and ensure seamless logistics, phasing, and quality control.
• Collaborate with internal teams (construction, design, safety, commercial) and external stakeholders (consultants, client reps, supply chain).
• Drive quality assurance processes and ensure full compliance from design to execution.
• Maintain commercial awareness and support procurement forecasting and change management.
  
  

Who we're looking for

You Will Bring

• Experience supporting or managing construction work packages on complex builds.
• A proactive and ethical leadership style that motivates teams and promotes safety culture.
• Working knowledge of construction programme management, RAMs, SSOW, and digital tools like BIM.
• Understanding of logistics planning, quality control, and subcontractor coordination
• Awareness of modern construction techniques, regulatory requirements, and environmental best practices.
• Ongoing pursuit or desire to work toward professional chartership
  
  

Professional and personal development

The size and scale of Balfour Beatty coupled with our strong pipeline of work provides incredible opportunities, regardless of what stage you are at in your career.

We encourage and empower our employees to take control of their career and explore which part of the business they want to work in and what role is right for them. We actively encourage our managers and employees to have open communication throughout the year about wellbeing, development and career opportunities.

We're proud of the Balfour Beatty Academy. Whether it’s sharpening your technical expertise, improving your personal skills or seeking support to become professionally qualified, our 70:20:10* approach to development means we have a learning approach that suits everyone.

• 70% learning on the job, 20% learning from those around you, and 10% formal training courses and learning events.
  
  

For further information about Balfour Beatty Regional Scotland please go to www.balfourbeatty.com/careers/Scotland - You can also check out further job opportunities in the careers section

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
  
  

About Us

From Dunfermline’s tramways in 1909 to highland hospitals today, Balfour Beatty has been trusted for over a century to deliver the complex and critical infrastructure and iconic buildings Scotland relies on.

We have the people, knowledge and experience to safely deliver projects right first time, maximising value for money and ensuring a positive social impact and inclusive economic growth for local communities.

Our award-winning sustainable projects, including active travel, Passivhaus and retrofit, demonstrate our commitment to supporting Scotland’s transition towards net zero in the built environment.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Construction

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