Senior Document Controller

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension scheme with life assu​

Aviva DigiCare+ and Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear, a core part of Babcock International Group, seeks a Senior Document Controller to support a major long-term defence programme. You will manage critical project information across Bristol, Warrington or Leicester with a hybrid working arrangement, 37 hours per week.

Responsibilities include EDMS registration, document control, reporting, and lifecycle support from bid to close-out. Benefits include extensive development opportunities and a supportive wellbeing program.

Qualifications

• Extensive recent experience in document control within complex projects.
• Strong experience applying document management processes across large-scale programmes.
• Understanding of contracting methodologies such as FIDIC, NEC, or JCT.
• Advanced knowledge of document management systems, processes, and best practice.
• Experience supporting projects throughout the full lifecycle, from bid phase through to close-out.

Responsibilities

• Managing document registration and control within EDMS for internal, client, and subcontractor documentation.
• Reviewing document formatting, coding, quality standards, and approval processes to ensure compliance.
• Coordinating the circulation of documents for review, approval, acceptance, and information sharing.
• Producing daily, weekly, and monthly document control and status reports for project stakeholders.
• Leading archiving, close-out, and project information handover activities at project completion.

Skills

Document management

EDMS

Reporting

Lifecycle support

Contracting knowledge

Education

National Diploma in Business Administration (Level 4)

Tools

Electronic Document Management Systems

Job description

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Senior Document Controller

Location: Warrington, GB, WA3 6YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Document Controller

Location: Bristol, Warrington or Leicester + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74875

Shape the future of critical defence programmes through exceptional document control and 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 Senior Document Controller at any of our key locations in Leicester (Leicestershire), Bristol or Warrington (Cheshire).

The role

As a Senior Document Controller, you'll play a vital role in supporting a major long-term defence programme, ensuring that critical project information is managed, controlled, and accessible throughout the project lifecycle.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Managing document registration and control within Electronic Document Management Systems for internal, client, and subcontractor documentation.
• Reviewing document formatting, coding, quality standards, and approval processes to ensure compliance.
• Coordinating the circulation of documents for review, approval, acceptance, and information sharing.
• Producing daily, weekly, and monthly document control and status reports for project stakeholders.
• Leading archiving, close-out, and project information handover activities at project completion.

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 Senior Document Controller:

• Extensive recent experience in document control within a complex project environment.
• Strong experience applying document management processes across large-scale programmes.
• Understanding of contracting methodologies such as FIDIC, NEC, or JCT.
• Advanced knowledge of document management systems, processes, and best practice.
• Experience supporting projects throughout the full lifecycle, from bid phase through to close-out.

Qualifications for the Senior Document Controller:

• National Diploma in Business Administration (Level 4) or equivalent qualification.
• 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.

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.

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