Legal Counsel

Overview

Some see obstruction. We see progress. 

Role: Legal Counsel

Location: Stirling

Challenges. Opportunities. Solutions. At Robertson, we see them our way. We’re bold enough to ask questions. Brave enough to look at things differently. Confident enough to be ourselves. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure and support services business. And as a Legal Counsel, you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the built environment around us, and for a truly sustainable future

Your new role

What you'll do:

The Legal Counsel (“LC”) provides high‑quality contentious and non‑contentious legal and contractual advice across Robertson Construction Group (“RCG”). The role supports the Group’s strategic objectives by identifying, managing and mitigating legal and contractual risk.

A core focus of the role is to support pre‑construction and delivery teams throughout the bid and project lifecycle, ensuring that contracts are commercially robust, risks are understood and appropriately managed, and governance requirements are met.

Pre‑Construction & Contract Advisor

• Provide legal and contractual advice throughout the pre‑construction process, including input from GW2 to GW4.
• Review draft contracts and prepare contract risk commentaries for all tenders, using the RCG Reserved Matters Schedule as a baseline.
• Identify contractual gaps, risks and deviations from RCG standard terms, advising on mitigation strategies, pricing implications and governance approvals.
• Support the Preconstruction Director and bid teams to ensure contractual risks are appropriately priced or managed.
• Recommend engagement of external legal advisers where contracts are particularly complex, obtaining the necessary internal approvals.

Disputes, Claims & Contentious Matters

• Support regional businesses in managing contractual claims, adjudications and other dispute resolution processes.
• Assist in the appointment and instruction of external legal advisers as required.
• Provide merits reviews, legal advice notes and risk reports to senior management.
• Attend meetings, mediations and hearings where necessary.
• Where directed, take a lead role in dispute management, agreeing and implementing resolution strategies

Governance, Reporting & Risk Management

• Support the enhancement of legal governance, policies and risk management processes across the Group.
• Ensure standard forms, subcontracts and legal notices within the Robertson Commercial Management System remain current.
• Monitor legal correspondence and advise on risk mitigation.
• Provide input to monthly and quarterly Board reporting on legal, contractual and dispute‑related risks.
• Monitor and report on legal fee expenditure across the Group.
• Contribute to GW7 “lessons learned” workshops to drive continuous improvement.

What you’ll need:

• Qualified solicitor with a minimum of 3 years’ post qualification experience – Scots Law qualification essential and dual-qualification in English Law desirable.
• Legal experience within a construction or infrastructure team
• In-house legal experience with a construction business desirable
• Non-contentious experience essential, additional contentious experience preferred.
• A track record of working with private and public-sector customers.
• Wide experience of the construction marketplaces, including strategic development and dealing with customers.
• An excellent knowledge of procurement processes for infrastructure and related services.
• Experience in presenting and selling complex proposals to audiences at all levels of seniority.

Who we’re looking for:

People are at the heart of everything we do and achieve at Robertson. To fit right into the team, you’ll be an excellent communicator with a strong balanced leadership skillset. Acting as a role model you will be an exemplar of behaviour. You will have strong analytical and IT skills. You will be confident in your decisions, and calm and quick to adjust to unexpected challenges; and help us make progress towards the best, most sustainable future, for ourselves and our communities

What's in it for me

Our Principles - The Robertson Way

Our principles are our roadmap to achieving positive outcomes and delivering on our purpose. They influence daily decisions around what we do and how we do things, creating an environment of growth, innovation and high performance. 

We listen

Listening enables us to work positively and collaboratively, and gives customers, partners and colleagues the assurance that their voices are always heard.

We are professional

Our mix of prudence and diligence, care and attention to detail means that our customers have certainty and assurance in everything we do and trust us to deliver.

We take responsibility

Each of us is accountable for what we do. From the smallest detail to team safety and caring for our communities and the environment, we know that everything matters.

We are determined to succeed

Every challenge is an opportunity. We work collaboratively and focus on safety, productivity and quality to find solutions we can be proud of and that provide a positive, lasting benefit.

We are one team

We work as one - in our teams and partnerships, and with our customers. We respect each contribution, and everyone stands up to be counted. We are Team Robertson.

For more information on our principles and culture, please visit: https://www.robertson.co.uk/careers/culture

Benefits of working with Robertson:

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and employee benefits such as:

• 33 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time or FTC positions, increases with length of service)
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme 
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme 
• Discounts (gym memberships, restaurants, days out etc.) with Hapi Rewards App
• Annual Flu Vaccine
• Access to E-Learning
• Health & Wellbeing Support
• Life Management & Financial Support

Diversity & Inclusion:

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. That’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more - so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

Apply now

If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you. To apply for this role and to start seeing things our way, submit your CV.

This role will be subject to pre-employment screening, including references. The level of screening may vary depending on role responsibilities and will be discussed at interview.