Junior Document Controller

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

About the Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Document Controller to join our Field Solutions part of the business, reporting into our Document Control Manager. The role will be based at our client’s site in Reading at least 4 days per week. The successful candidate will become part of a respected and ambitious team who offer support to a variety of different projects.

Duties will include:

• Providing support with to document numbering, revisions and the application of metadata
• Receiving, issuing and controlling project documentation
• Checking compliance and quality of documents
• Co-ordinating with other departments to ensure the information being processed complies with their requirements for handover
• Updating project documentation trackers
• Maintaining project filing
• Uploading & downloading documentation to and from a document management system
• Filing, scanning & printing when required

Note - Experience is not required as training will be provided.

• The ideal candidate will be a team player with a positive can-do attitude and be willing to learn new software. If you are looking for a new challenge
• An eye for detail
• Excellent organisational skills
• Willinginess to learn new software

If you are looking for a new challenge and think this may be the role for you, we would love to hear from you.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.

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