Document Controller

Murphy; Alness; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

Discretionary annual bonus

Pension

Life assurance

Health screening

Enhanced sick pay

Maternity/Paternity pay

Wedding bonus

Canteen facilities

Professional development

Retail discounts

Gym membership

Cycle to work

Job summary

Murphy is recruiting for a Document Controller to join the Energy Team on the SSE ASTI Framework. You will manage construction documentation, maintain the CDE, and ensure controlled information flow across project teams.

The role emphasizes accuracy, version control, and proactive stakeholder engagement to keep documents professional and accessible throughout the project lifecycle. Murphy offers a competitive benefits package and a supportive environment to develop as part of a leading

Qualifications

• Experience using document management systems to control construction documentation.
• Ability to maintain registers, numbering, and version control.
• Strong attention to detail to ensure professional documents.

Responsibilities

• Be the focal point for construction documentation and maintain control.
• Maintain the CDE and ensure transfer to JMS CDE before contract completion.
• Create and maintain document registers.
• Allocate document numbers per JMS or Client procedures.
• Review document details for accuracy (number, revision, status, title, dates, headers).
• Quality check documents for typographical/formatting errors.
• Create and maintain distribution lists / workflows / review cycles.
• Collate and issue handover documentation (O&M manuals, H&S files, as-built records, data books etc.).
• Archive documents with legibility and traceability; archive electronically unless required otherwise.

Skills

DMS knowledge

Stakeholder mgmt

Team player

Flexible / adaptable

Job description

Document Controller

Murphy is recruiting for a Document Controller to work with Energy Team on SSE ASTI Framework.

Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Document Controller

• Ensure document control is the focal point for all construction documentation and is manged in a controlled manner.
• Maintain the CDE (F Drive/Aconex and/or Client CDE). Ensure information stored on Client's CDEs is permanently available or transferred to the JMS CDE prior to contract completion.
• Create and maintain document registers as required.
• Allocate document numbers as per the JMS or Client specified Document Numbering procedure.
• Review document details, ensure they are correct prior to issue (e.g. doc number, revision, status (reason for issue), title, date, page numbering, header, footer, template used, print set-up, signatures).
• Quality check documents and edit any that have typographical / formatting errors that may lead to the disqualification of the document or cause it to look unprofessional. Ensure the entire document is legible.
• Create and maintain distribution lists / workflows / review cycles.
• Collate and issue of handover documentation (O&M manuals, H&S files, as-built records, data books etc.)
• Archive documents ensure legibility and traceability. Note: archiving should be electronic unless the contract or legislation states otherwise.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Working knowledge of Document Management Systems such as Hummingbird, BIW and Aconex
• Flexible with a can-do attitude
• Confident to build relationships with diverse stakeholders
• Team player who enjoys variety

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Platinum Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.4bn and £23m Invested in environmentally friendly plant in 2024 there really is #MoretoMurphy

Due to the requirements of the role, in addition to our standard identity and right to work checks, successful candidates will be asked to undertake a basic Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK