Location: Stafford | Contract Type: Permanent | Working Pattern: Full-Time | Office Based
Pay / Benefits: Remuneration for this role is benchmarked competitively within our sector.
The Opportunity
As OCU continues to deliver major infrastructure and utility projects across the UK, we are looking for a Document Controller to help ensure information is managed accurately, efficiently, and in line with project and business requirements. You'll play a key role in maintaining document integrity, supporting project teams, and ensuring critical information is accessible to those who need it.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong organisational skills and a keen eye for detail who enjoys working in a collaborative environment. You'll work closely with project teams, stakeholders, and operational functions, helping to support successful project delivery through effective document management and control.
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Maintain document control procedures and processes to ensure consistency, compliance, and accuracy.
- Manage electronic and physical document repositories, ensuring information is stored, archived, and retrieved effectively.
- Monitor document workflows, including creation, review, approval, distribution, and revision control.
- Coordinate document reviews and approvals, ensuring actions are completed within required timescales.
- Maintain document registers, logs, and trackers, providing regular updates to project teams and stakeholders.
- Support internal and external audits by providing accurate documentation and compliance records.
- Generate document transmittals, reports, and correspondence as required.
- Provide guidance and support to colleagues on document control systems, processes, and best practice.
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Previous experience in a Document Controller, Records Coordinator, or similar document management role.
- Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Experience managing documentation across multiple projects or workstreams.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and document management systems.
- Ability to prioritise workloads and manage deadlines effectively.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders.
- Experience within utilities, infrastructure, engineering, construction, or other regulated industries.
- Bonus if you have experience using platforms such as SharePoint, Documentum, or similar document management systems.
- It would be great if you have an understanding of document control standards, quality management systems, and audit requirements.
- It would be great if you've supported project delivery teams in a fast-paced operational environment.
- A qualification in Business Administration, Information Management, or a related discipline 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].
