Lead Document Controller

About the role

Balfour Beatty, one of the UK's leading infrastructure organisations, is seeking a proactive and highly skilled Lead Document Controller to join our Birmingham-based team. This is a key role within our project delivery function, ensuring the smooth, accurate and strategic flow of information across major schemes.

As a Lead Document Controller, you will oversee and manage document control activities across complex, multi-disciplinary projects. You will provide guidance to document control teams, maintain rigorous quality standards, and ensure compliance with internal and client requirements. A crucial part of your role will be shaping and implementing our document management strategy, ensuring our processes drive efficiency, clarity and consistency across all stages of the project lifecycle.

As Lead Document Controller you will :

• Lead and coordinate document control activities across the project team.
• Develop, deliver, and continually improve document management strategies and workflows.
• Maintain accurate records, version control, and audit trails in line with project and industry standards.
• Support project teams with training, guidance and system best practice.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to ensure timely document submission and approval.
• Ensure compliance with governance, security protocols and quality requirements.

• Significant experience in document control within construction or infrastructure.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and influence others.
• A strategic mindset, able to evaluate, streamline and enhance document management processes.
• Knowledge of common document management systems (e.g., Project Wise, Asite, Viewpoint).
• Excellent attention to detail, organisation and communication skills.

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK's most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity / partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

Operating across England and Wales, our buildings teams create places where people live, are cared for, work, learn, meet and have fun, with a focus on the aviation, health, defence, education and development sectors.

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit  / diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https : / / disabil /

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at candidate recruit