Document Controller

Babcock International; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Shopping savings portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave (10 days)

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is hiring a Document Controller across Leicester, Bristol or Warrington with a hybrid working arrangement. You will manage project documents, ensure accuracy in EDMS, and support governance and handover activities. A relevant qualification in information management or admin is required, with SC security clearance likely.

The role offers a generous benefits package and career development within a major defence programme.

Qualifications

• Experience as Document Controller or similar document management role.
• Experience using Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS).
• Knowledge of document control, information management and quality processes.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across a project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage project documents in electronic document management systems with accuracy.
• Review document formatting, coding, revision control and approvals.
• Distribute documentation for review and information to stakeholders.
• Produce document status reports and manage numbering, archiving and retention.
• Support handover activities and ensure governance and quality standards.

Skills

Document control

EDMS

Information management

Stakeholder collaboration

Quality processes

Education

Qualification in Information Management or Business Administration

Tools

EDMS

Job description

Job Title: Document Controller

Location: Bristol, Warrington or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF 74758

Help shape the future of critical defence programmes through world-class information management

At Cavendish Nuclear, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Document Controller at any of our key locations in Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire).

The role

As a Document Controller, you'll play a vital role in supporting the effective management of project documentation across a major long-term defence programme.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Managing project documents within electronic document management systems, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Reviewing document formatting, coding, revision control and approval requirements.
• Distributing documentation for review, approval and information to project stakeholders.
• Producing document status reports and maintaining document numbering, archiving and retention processes.
• Supporting project handover activities and promoting compliance with governance, quality and information management standards

This role is based at one of our key locations Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire). You will work 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Flexible working arrangements are available, with a mixture of office-based and remote working.

Essential experience of the Document Controller:

• Previous experience in a Document Controller or similar document management role.
• Experience using Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS).
• Strong organisational skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of document control, information management and quality processes.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and managing documentation throughout a project lifecycle.

Qualifications for the Document Controller:

• A relevant qualification in Information Management, Business Administration or a related discipline.

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Security Clearance

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

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.

Join us and discover how far we can go, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [e-mail] with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 10/09/2026

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