Document Manager

Babcock; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Document Manager to oversee the Business Management System at their Devonport Royal Dockyard site. This full-time role involves creating and managing SHE documentation, ensuring compliance while balancing office tasks and site visits. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Microsoft formatting and knowledge of ISO management systems. Join a forward-thinking company that values safety and environmental standards, offering generous benefits and development opportunities. If you're detail-oriented and a strong communicator, this role could be your next career step.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Strong experience in formatting documents using Microsoft applications.
• Experience with ISO14001 and ISO45001 systems is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Manage SHE BMS documentation ensuring legal compliance.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure timely management of BMS.

Skills

Microsoft Office Formatting

ISO14001 Management Systems

ISO45001 Management Systems

Communication Skills

Attention to Detail

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate

Environmental Management Certificate

NVQ/L3 in Business Administration

English Degree

Job description

Job Title: Document Manager
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £40,098 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63633

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Document Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Document Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Engaging with stakeholders across various business units and organisational levels, ensuring timely management of the Business Management System (BMS) allowing for opportunities to draw on expertise from the Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) Function and the broader business.

Day-to-day, you’ll consolidate and create SHE BMS documentation, ensuring legal and contractual compliance while engaging extensively with stakeholders across all organizational levels, and balancing office-based tasks with site visits to industrial, construction, and infrastructure environments.

• Consolidate or create Manuals, Core Processes, guidance documents, and other SHE BMS materials, occasionally requiring technical SHE input
• Ensure all systems meet legal and contractual compliance while remaining fit for purpose
• Engage extensively with stakeholders across all levels and business units, leveraging SHE Function expertise to ensure no BMS items are overdue
• Split responsibilities between office tasks and on-site activities, including construction sites, surface craft, submarines, and infrastructure

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard

Essential experience of the Document Manager

• Strong experience of formatting on Microsoft programmes
• Experience with ISO14001 and ISO45001 management systems is highly desirable; knowledge of quality management or business improvement is advantageous
• Practical SHE Management experience, particularly in heavy or nuclear industry operations, is desirable but not mandatory
• Strong communication, tenacity, and meticulous attention to detail

Qualifications for the Document Manager

• Relevant qualifications such as a NEBOSH General Certificate, Environmental Management Certificate, NVQ/L3 in Business Administration or English Degree are required
• Internal Auditor qualification or extensive experience with ISO14001 and 45001 systems is desirable
• Membership in a professional body like IOSH (Technical level) or IEMA (Associate level) is desirable

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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: 16/05/2025

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