Senior Document Controller

weServed; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension scheme

Digital GP access

Employee share scheme

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Cavendish Nuclear is seeking a Senior Document Controller to support a major defence programme across Leicester, Bristol or Warrington. The role involves controlling project documentation, ensuring compliance, and coordinating reviews and handovers.

You’ll manage electronic document systems, produce regular status reports, and support full lifecycle documentation from bid to close-out. Flexible hybrid work is available with 37 hours weekly.

Qualifications

• Extensive document control experience in complex programmes.
• Strong knowledge of document management processes across large-scale programmes.
• Understanding of FIDIC, NEC, or JCT contract methodologies.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Document control

Contracting methods

DMS knowledge

Lifecycle support

Education

National Diploma in Business Administration (Level 4)

Information Management qualification

Job description

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:

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

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