Location: Shetland - Scotland | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office & Site Based
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
OCU is delivering major power infrastructure projects across substations, cabling, civils, and overhead line networks, and effective material management is critical to successful project delivery. As a Project Material Controller, you'll play a central role in ensuring operational teams have the right materials, equipment, and resources available when they need them, helping projects run safely, efficiently, and on programme.
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced operational environment where organisation, attention to detail, and effective coordination make a real difference. You'll work closely with project teams, suppliers, and site operations to support some of the UK's most significant power infrastructure programmes.
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Manage the receipt, storage, issue, and reconciliation of materials across multiple projects and workstreams.
- Maintain accurate stock records and ensure full traceability of materials from receipt through to project allocation.
- Coordinate deliveries, collections, and logistics activities with suppliers and operational teams.
- Monitor stock levels and identify shortages, risks, or long lead-time items that could impact project delivery.
- Maintain safe, organised yard facilities that comply with operational, safety, and industry requirements.
- Control plant, tools, and equipment, ensuring items are inspected, calibrated, and available for deployment.
- Produce accurate material records, reports, and supporting documentation for operational and compliance purposes.
- Support project mobilisation, demobilisation, and emergency response activities when required.
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Experience in materials control, stores management, logistics, warehouse operations, or a similar coordination role.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain accurate records.
- Experience using stock control, inventory management, or materials tracking systems.
- Good communication skills and the ability to work effectively with operational teams and suppliers.
- Understanding of safe material handling and storage practices.
- Competent IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience within utilities, power, construction, engineering, or infrastructure sectors.
- Bonus if you have knowledge of substation, overhead line, civils, or cabling materials.
- It would be great if you have an understanding of CDM, NRSWA, or other industry compliance requirements.
- It would be great if you've worked with plant, fleet, calibration, or equipment management processes.
- Forklift, lifting operations, or other relevant operational certifications would be advantageous.
At OCU, we believe that meaningful work should come with meaningful support. That's the principle behind Careers with Purpose, our commitment to ensuring every person at OCU feels supported, developed, and valued, not just in their role today, but throughout their career with us.
Alongside the opportunity to work on some of the UK's most significant infrastructure projects, we offer a benefits package that we are continuing to develop as we grow, and the kind of career acceleration that only comes from being inside a business moving at this pace.
As a rapidly growing organisation, there are genuine opportunities to progress, broaden your experience, and build a long-term career within OCU Group.
For a confidential conversation about this opportunity, please contact
Jonathan Bryden at
[email protected].
Our vacancies are typically advertised for two weeks; however, we reserve the right to close applications early should we receive a sufficient number of suitable candidates. We therefore encourage early applications.
At OCU Group, we don’t just deliver infrastructure - we help power modern life.
As one of the UK’s fastest-growing utility and infrastructure businesses, we deliver complex, nationally critical projects across power, energy transition, water, telecoms, and digital infrastructure. Over the last five years, OCU has grown five-fold to a £1.1bn organisation, expanding both organically and through strategic acquisitions across the UK, Australia, New Zealand and India.
Our growth is driven by ambitious people, operational excellence, and a commitment to doing things properly. We work on projects that genuinely matter by supporting the UK’s energy transition, strengthening essential infrastructure, and helping build more sustainable communities for the future.
Whether you’re an experienced professional looking to take ownership of major projects and influence delivery at scale, or someone starting your career through an apprenticeship, graduate programme, or placement route, OCU offers real opportunity to grow, develop, and make an impact.
We are building a business where high performance, collaboration, innovation, and accountability sit at the centre of our culture. Our people are trusted to lead, encouraged to challenge thinking, and supported to continuously develop their skills and careers.
At OCU, you won’t just join a growing business, you’ll help shape it.
Our Culture & Values
At OCU, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We care about safety, lead with integrity, strive to be better every day, make a positive impact, and deliver to grow, together, as One Company United.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At OCU Group, we believe diversity, inclusion, and belonging are fundamental to building stronger teams, better ideas, and a more successful business. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued and supported.
As part of our commitment to fairness and equality, candidates may be asked to complete an equal opportunities monitoring form during the recruitment process. This information is used for monitoring purposes only and plays no part in hiring decisions.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and are committed to offering interviews to candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the essential criteria for the role.
To ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to join our team, please inform us if you require any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment and interview process is, by emailing
[email protected].
