Document Controller

Job Title: Document Controller

Location: Leicester, Leicestershire

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF77234

Help deliver the information that powers the UK's nuclear future

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 Radar Road, near Leicester, Leicestershire.

The role

As a Document Controller, you'll play a vital role in ensuring project information is managed effectively, accurately and securely throughout its lifecycle. You'll support engineering and project delivery teams by maintaining robust document control processes, coordinating information flow and helping to ensure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.

This is a full-time role working 37 hours per week, based at Radar Road. Hybrid working patterns are available, with a minimum of three days per week onsite.

Day-to-day, you’ll be

• Managing and maintaining document management systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency and compliance.
• Receiving, processing and controlling documentation from engineering and project teams.
• Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to provide guidance and updates on document workflows.
• Transmitting drawing specifications and controlled documentation that support nuclear projects.
• Investigating, organising and maintaining historical project documentation to support information retrieval and governance requirements.

Essential experience of the Document Controller:

• Proven experience in document control, document flow management and configuration control.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work collaboratively across teams.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• A flexible, proactive and questioning approach to problem solving.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications for the Document Controller:

• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you have a good level of computer literacy and can demonstrate the required experience and willingness to learn.

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)

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 26/11/2026

#CAVDESTNUC