Job Title: Document Controller
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £24500 - £28000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75608
Keep Critical Projects Moving. Shape the Future of Defence and Engineering.
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 Controller at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
As a Document Controller, you’ll play a vital role in managing, tracking and controlling critical project documentation that supports major defence and engineering programmes. Working alongside project teams, customers and contractors, you'll ensure information is accurate, compliant and available when it's needed most.
Whether you're already experienced in document control or looking to build on strong organisational and administration skills, this role offers excellent opportunities for training, development and long-term career growth within one of the UK's leading engineering organisations. Your work will help support projects that contribute directly to national security and critical infrastructure.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for maintaining the integrity, accuracy and accessibility of project information throughout the project lifecycle. You'll help ensure teams can work efficiently, meet regulatory requirements and deliver successful outcomes on complex programmes.
- Managing, tracking and controlling project documentation to ensure accuracy, quality and compliance.
- Maintaining document management systems, processes and version control throughout the project lifecycle.
- Coordinating the flow of information between project teams, contractors and customers.
- Reviewing, distributing and archiving project documentation in line with business and customer requirements.
- Supporting efficient project delivery by ensuring documentation remains accessible, up to date and fully auditable.
This role is full time, 35 and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Document Controller
- Experience managing and controlling documentation within a structured project, engineering or business environment.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and manage information effectively.
- High attention to detail and experience maintaining accurate records and document control standards.
- Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to support the timely flow of information.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
Qualifications for the Document Controller
Essential:
- Minimum Grade 4/C (or equivalent) in English.
- Minimum Grade 4/C (or equivalent) in Mathematics.
Desirable:
- Vocational training or relevant administrative experience within a business support, information management or project environment.
- APM Project Fundamentals qualification or similar project management knowledge.
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 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 Babcock 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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see 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: 02/09/2026
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