Document Controller

Babcock International; Lowton Common; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering and defense company is looking for a Document Controller in Lowton Common, UK. In this role, you will manage essential documentation for defense projects, ensuring accuracy and compliance. Responsibilities include managing documents in the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), conducting reviews, and producing reports. Required qualifications include experience in document management and relevant qualifications in Information Management. Hybrid working patterns available, with generous benefits and a focus on career development.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience applying document management in a complex environment.
• Recent and relevant experience in a regulated industry.
• Awareness of contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC, NEC3, JCT).
• Advanced knowledge of document management techniques and toolsets.

Responsibilities

• Register and capture documents in the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS).
• Review document formats and coding for approval processes.
• Circulate documents for review and acceptance.
• Provide regular status reports.
• Archive and close out documentation at project completion.

Skills

Document management

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Information management

Education

Relevant qualification in Information Management or Document Control

National Diploma in Business Administration (Level 3) or equivalent

Job description

Overview

As a Document Controller, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting our defence and engineering projects by ensuring the accurate management and control of essential documentation. You'll be part of a collaborative team working on high-impact projects that contribute to national security and innovation in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Register and capture documents in the Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), including Cavendish, client, and subcontractor documentation
• Review document formats, coding, and ensuring adherence to approval processes
• Circulate documents for review, acceptance, and information sharing
• Provide daily, weekly, and monthly status reports
• Archiving, closing out, and handing over documentation at project completion
• This is a full-time, permanent position based in Warrington, Cheshire with a minimum of two days onsite per week. Hybrid working patterns are available.
• Experience applying document management in a complex environment
• Recent and relevant experience in a similar role within a regulated industry
• Awareness of contracting methodologies (e.g. FIDIC, NEC3, JCT)
• Advanced knowledge of document management techniques and toolsets

Qualifications

• A relevant qualification in Information Management or Document Control is advantageous
• A National Diploma in Business Administration (Level 3) or equivalent is preferred

Security and Compliance

Security Clearance, The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

About Cavendish Nuclear

At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Document Controller, at our Warrington, Cheshire site.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day\'s paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Cavendish We're Cavendish Nuclear - a team of c5,000 specialists and a core part of Babcock International Group. Here, you'll be part of something bigger. Across clean energy, defence, and civil decommissioning, your work will contribute to projects that are critical to energy security and national protection. Together, we're shaping a future that lasts - not only through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.