Document Controller

1 month ago


Doncaster, United Kingdom VolkerWessels UK Ltd Full time

The Power & Civils Business within VolkerRail Specialist Businesses offers comprehensive electrical design and installation within all railway environments, overhead line installation, ancillary civils construction, and piling services. We provide a turnkey, multi-discipline service that includes survey, ground investigation, design and engineering, construction, testing, and commissioning for all railway power elements.

Our services encompass the design, construction, and modification of both High Voltage and Low Voltage power distribution systems for the UK operational railway, including essential supplies for signalling power and train control. We also work on railway facilities such as depots and stations, installing lighting, small power, and depot protection systems.

For overhead line electrification equipment, we support projects from early design to full installation, testing, and commissioning. We also perform various lineside civils work, including under track crossings and concrete base and formation works.

Our services range from small projects to large multi-million-pound turnkey packages, covering early project development to final commissioning and handover, either as the principal contractor or as Tier 2 and 3 suppliers.

We have are looking to recruit a Part time Document Controller based in Doncaster for initially a fixed term 6 month period.

The primary responsibilities for the role will be the management of documentation received by, and issued by the project team.

  • Identifying when new project documents are issued.
  • Downloading and formally recording documents to company servers/systems
  • Informing key members of the project team of the arrival of new documents and providing assistance
    with distribution
  • Logging document details on the register, including date received/transmitted, document title, number
    and revision, study discipline(s) to which document distributed
  • Registering completed company documents
  • Uploading documents to the client's document management system..
  • Ensuring that project team members use standard templates for document preparation and checking of
    outgoing documents, making necessary edits to ensure consistency in the documents issued to the client.
  • Check that documents prepared by the project team use the correct numbering systems (client and
    company systems), allocating numbers where required.
  • Act as point of contact for client's Document Controller, resolving any day to day issues which may
    arise.

About you

  • Previous experience of working within a Document Control or a Quality Control environment in the railway industry would be a distinct advantage.

  • Proficient in all Microsoft Packages and be able to work on their own initiative.

  • Knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint and Adobe Acrobat would be a distinct advantage.

  • Detailed working knowledge of ProjectWise Document Control System as used by Network Rail on their projects.

  • Ability to prioritise and manage a diverse workload

  • High attention to detail
  • Excellent organisational skills

If your past experience doesn't match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Why work with us?

VolkerRail is under the umbrella of VolkerWessels UK which is a multidisciplinary contractor that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

By utilising the specialist skills of each business unit within VolkerWessels UK, VolkerRail are able to ensure our staff provide unrivalled resources and expertise to our clients.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

  • Competitive salary
  • Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
  • Pension
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
  • Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
  • Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits
  • Employee Assistance programme
  • Mental health, physical health, and financial support

Fairness, inclusion and respect

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, VolkerWessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

If you need support with your application, please contact us at

Additional information

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable.

VolkerWessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.


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