Document Controller

Carrington West; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Carrington West is recruiting a Document Controller for HS2's large infrastructure programme in Birmingham. The role is hybrid, requiring three days in the office and salary between £30,000 and £36,000.

You'll manage document control queries, maintain EDMS, ensure data accuracy and support stakeholders across levels, with tasks including reporting and system training. With clear progression into senior roles or related disciplines, this position offers long-term development within UK

Qualifications

• Proven experience in document control, ideally in engineering or major infrastructure projects.
• Practical experience using electronic document management systems (EDMS) to manage documentation and metadata.
• Experience managing relationships with multiple stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
• Strong communication skills to explain processes and guide system users.
• Good IT literacy and proficiency with office software.

Responsibilities

• Managing document control queries
• Maintaining document management systems
• Ensuring data accuracy
• Supporting stakeholders
• Producing reports
• Delivering system training
• Supporting infrastructure delivery

Skills

Document control

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

IT literacy

Prioritisation

Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office

EDMS

Enterprise Bridge (eB)

ALIM

AssetWise

Asite

Business Collaborator

Job description

Take the Next Step in Your Document Control Career

Are you a Document Controller looking to grow your Career in one of the Largest ongoing infrastructure projects in Europe?

Salary: £30,000 - £36,000

Location: Birmingham

Working pattern: Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office

This is an opportunity for you to support the effective management of project information across one of the UK's largest infrastructure programmes.

You’ll have the opportunity to build on your document control experience, work with stakeholders at different levels of seniority and develop your skills across a range of engineering and infrastructure activities.

With a clear opportunity to progress into more senior positions or explore other disciplines, this role offers a platform for your long-term career development.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing document control queries
• Maintaining document management systems
• Ensuring data accuracy
• Supporting stakeholders
• Producing reports
• Delivering system training
• Supporting infrastructure delivery

You’ll be expected to take ownership of your workload, communicate clearly and adapt to changing project priorities while following established document control procedures.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

We’re looking for someone with practical document control experience who is confident using digital systems and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders.

Essential experience and skills:

• Proven experience in document control, ideally gained within engineering, construction or major infrastructure projects.
• Practical experience using electronic document management systems (EDMS) to manage documentation, retrieve information and update metadata.
• Proven experience managing relationships with multiple stakeholders, including individuals at different levels of seniority.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain processes, respond to queries and provide clear guidance to system users.
• Good IT literacy and confidence using computer-based systems, including Microsoft Office applications.
• The ability to manage competing requests, prioritise tasks and follow defined document control procedures.

Experience with one or more of the following systems would be particularly relevant:

• Enterprise Bridge (eB)
• Asset Lifecycle Information Management (ALIM)
• AssetWise
• Asite
• Business Collaborator

Experience with comparable enterprise document management systems will also be considered.

You’ll be particularly well suited to this role if you can provide specific examples of how you’ve worked with stakeholders, managed their expectations, resolved information-related queries or supported colleagues in using document management systems.

Your Career Development at HS2

This role offers opportunities to develop your career both within document control and across related project disciplines.

As you build your experience, potential career pathways could include progressing into more senior document control or information management roles, or exploring opportunities within quality management, commercial management and engineering, depending on your skills, experience and future vacancies.

You’ll also gain exposure to different areas of the infrastructure programme, helping you broaden your technical knowledge and understanding of how major projects operate.

Your main office will be based at Birmingham, with a requirement to attend the office three days per week, business travel to other sites will be covered.