Highland Broadband has launched a major recruitment drive as the company accelerates its full-fibre network expansion across the Highlands, with the company’s workforce in Inverness set to double to almost 50.
The only full-fibre provider building exclusively in Scotland, the company already connects more than 50 per cent of rural communities in the Highlands and, in the coming year, plans to bring ultrafast broadband connectivity to more than 150 towns and villages. Recruitment to support this rollout includes new opportunities across engineering, network delivery and customer support.
In a move that underlines its long-term commitment to creating sustainable employment opportunities within the communities it serves, Highland Broadband has partnered with Inverness-based Global Highland to uncover new talent in the north of the country. All the roles advertised come with full training and are available for those interested in pursuing careers in engineering, technology and customer service.
The recruitment drive comes less than two years after Highland Broadband moved both its customer service call centre and tech support team to Inverness to ensure customers always receive support from local staff members. Today, 98 per cent of its workforce live in Scotland, with more than 50 per cent of staff based in the Highlands.
Colin Woodward, Managing Director of Highland Broadband, said, “For more than a decade, we have been proud to grow our workforce as fast as our network. As we continue to expand, our new partnership with Global will enable us to double our workforce in the Highlands as we continue to invest in talent that is rooted in the communities we serve. Whether in engineering, technology or customer service, all of our new recruits will help take Highland Broadband to the next level as we accelerate our expansion across the Highlands.”
Highland Broadband’s expansion in the Highlands, Argyll, Moray, Lothians, Fife and Stirlingshire, where residents have previously experienced poor access to ultrafast full fibre broadband, has been supported by investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank, whose investment is aligned to its mission to reduce place-based inequalities and accelerate opportunity.
The Highlands recently saw the village of Halkirk transition from having some of the UK’s slowest internet to its fastest, thanks to Highland Broadband and the UK government’s Project Gigabit, which invests in broadband upgrades in hard-to-reach areas that would otherwise be left behind.
To find out more about Highland Broadband vacancies, visit globalhighland.com/jobs.