At Highland Spring, our Engineering & Projects team plays a key role in shaping the future of our operations. We’re looking for an experienced Project Manager – Engineering & Capital Projects to lead the delivery of capital investment projects across the Highland Spring Group.
Based primarily at The Ochils in Blackford, with travel to other Highland Spring sites and suppliers as required, this is a 37.5-hour-per-week role with flexibility around key project milestones, site activity and commissioning phases.
Reporting to the Group Engineering & Projects Manager, you’ll lead projects from concept and design through procurement, installation, commissioning and operational handover, ensuring they are delivered safely and effectively against agreed scope, cost, schedule and quality requirements.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll:
- Lead capital projects through the full project lifecycle.
- Develop project plans, milestones, budgets, forecasts and schedules.
- Manage risks, issues, dependencies and change controls.
- Coordinate teams across Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Quality, Finance and HSE.
- Manage consultants, contractors, OEMs, suppliers and delivery partners.
- Support site installation, commissioning and operational handover.
- Resolve delivery challenges while balancing safety, quality, cost and operational priorities.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for someone with experience delivering capital investment projects within a manufacturing, FMCG, food and beverage, pharmaceutical or similar industrial environment.
You’ll bring strong project planning and controls experience, commercial awareness, excellent stakeholder management skills and a practical, proactive approach to delivery.
A degree in Engineering, Construction, Project Management or a related discipline would be advantageous, as would an APM, PRINCE2, PMP or equivalent qualification. Knowledge of CDM Regulations would also be beneficial.
What you can expect
You’ll join a supportive, values-led business where we’re a team, we’re proud and we care, with the opportunity to make a real impact through significant investment projects.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary
- 34 days’ holiday
- Company pension with employer contribution rising from 5% to 10%
- Life assurance
- Employee Assistance Platform
If you’re looking for an opportunity to take ownership of complex projects and help shape the future of Highland Spring, we’d love to hear from you.
Skills Required
- Experience delivering capital investment projects in manufacturing, FMCG, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, or similar industrial environments
- Strong project planning and project controls experience
- Commercial awareness
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Practical and proactive approach to project delivery
- Degree in Engineering, Construction, Project Management, or a related discipline
- APM, PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent project management qualification
- Knowledge of CDM Regulations
What We Do
Highland Spring Group is the UK’s largest producer of natural source waters. Established in 1979, our range includes; Highland Spring and Hydr8 and we employ over 400 people at our two sites in Scotland. The mission of our business is to provide healthy hydration in an environmentally sustainable way. One of the many things that makes us special is our protected, organically accredited catchment area - stretching across over 2,500 acres of the beautiful Ochil Hills in Perthshire, Scotland, The land has nothing but nature on it and allows the rainfall to filter naturally over many years through the rock to depths of up to 300 feet before making it’s way to our bottling plant and into bottles in it’s natural source condition
