Senior Document Controller

Murphy is a leading international, specialist engineering and construction company founded in 1951 with a purpose to improve life by delivering world-class infrastructure. Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and America, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation; natural resources; energy and water. 

Headquartered in London, Murphy has a number of related businesses – Ground Engineering; Utility Connections; Murphy Plant; Murphy Process Engineering; Pipeline Testing Services; Specialist Welding Services; and Electrical Services. Murphy is a specialist in delivering pipelines, design, structural steel, tunnelling, fabrication, bridges and piling, and has a substantial holding of plant, equipment and facilities.

Murphy employs around 4,000 engineers, professional managers and skilled operatives around the world. Together, they work as ‘One Murphy’ - directly delivering the people, plant and expertise needed to make projects a success. Visit (url removed) or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X:

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Murphy is recruiting for a Senior Document Controller to work with the Energy Team on the National Grid, HWUP Project.

Our business is well-known for its extensive in-house expertise, experience, and continuous drive to innovate within the industry to create added value for all our customers. Throughout our history we have strived to challenge the norm and incorporate a wide range of new technologies and capabilities to ensure we meet the ever-changing markets and demands. Today we support groundbreaking transmission and distribution projects in four countries - ensuring their energy security for decades to come.

We offer a wide range of services including design, construction and commissioning. We deliver Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) projects serving both regulated and private customers along with technical and engineering solutions within the conventional power and energy transition markets. Our continual drive to innovate, while encouraging sustainability, ensures we remain at the forefront of the industry, and is demonstrated in our long-standing relationships with major energy providers in multiple countries.

A day in the life of a Murphy Senior Document Controller:

Ensure document control is the focal point for all construction documentation and is manged in a controller manner.
Maintain that document control requirements are administered as per contract requirements and within agreed timescales.
Oversee Obsolete/Superseded/Withdrawn documents are kept by DC for reference or other purposes.
Ensure other holders of Obsolete/Superseded/Withdrawn documents are deleted/destroyed or marked as 'Superseded' and removed from possible use.
Maintain the CDE (F Drive/Aconex and/or Client CDE). Ensure information stored on Client's CDE is permanently available or transferred to the JMS CDE prior to contract completion.
Allocate document numbers as per the JMS or Client specified Document Numbering procedure.
Review document details, ensure they are correct prior to issue (e.g. doc number, revision, status (reason for issue), title, date, page numbering, header, footer, template used, print set-up, signatures).
Quality check documents and edit any that have typographical / formatting errors that may lead to the disqualification of the document or cause it to look unprofessional. Ensure the entire document is legible.
Creation and maintain distribution lists / workflows / review cycles.
Management of change by ensuring documents are processed correctly and linked to the contract documents as required.
Assist in the collation and issue of handover documentation (O&M manuals, H&S files, as-built records, datebooks etc.
Archiving of documents, ensure legibility and traceability.

Still interested, does this sound like you?

Experience in a professional Administration and /or Document Control department
Knowledge and experience of operating IT systems, i.e., Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and Access.
Knowledge of Electronic Document Management Systems such as Aconex, ProjectWise etc.
Ability to manage and build relationship with diverse stakeholders.
Experience of the Infrastructure / Civil / Engineering / Construction industry.

What’s in it for you?

27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
Above market rate contributory pension scheme
Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £5.8bn and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

If you are unable to apply via the usual process, please call Jack Roberts on (phone number removed) to discuss in more detail.

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK