Job Description

The role

Are you a proactive and strategic thinker with experience in document control? If so, we invite you to apply for our Document Control Lead within our Building Safety Directorate. In this position, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, accessibility, and compliance of project documentation across Southern Housing's most complex and high-impact delivery programmes. You will establish and uphold best-in-class document control systems that align with Southern Housing's internal policies and external regulatory frameworks, including ISO 19650-1 and 19650-2. Your leadership will be instrumental in coordinating document control activities across a diverse range of stakeholders, design consultants, contractors, and internal delivery teams, ensuring that the Golden Thread of Information is preserved and traceable throughout the entire lifecycle of each project.


This is a permanent position working 35 hours a week. Your main office will be Fleet House, Farringdon, where you will be expected to work from 2 days a week and the rest from home.

What you'll need

Experience in document control, ideally within large-scale construction, infrastructure, or construction consultancy background. Educated to degree level/post graduate qualification in construction management, information management, engineering or a related field or have an equivalent level of experience and knowledge. Good knowledge of the Building Safety Act 2022, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, Building Regulation 2010, Construction and Design Management Regulations 2010 and other related building legislation. In depth knowledge of ISO 19650 and other relevant industry standards e.g. ISO 9001. Familiarity with Building Information Modelling (BIM) processes (desirable). Formal training or certification related to ISO 19650 or other relevant industry standards (desirable).

In your supporting statement, it is important that you address how you meet each of the above criteria providing examples.

Advert closing date: 10th August 2025 at 23:59 (We may close the advert early if we receive a suitable number of applications).

Interview date: 18th August 2025

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About us

At Southern Housing, our residents are at the

heart

of everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own!We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to people's lives.


A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.

What's in it for you

Pension

Life

assurance

Healthcare cash plan

Eyecare & dental

Birthday

leave

Retailers discounts

Cycle

to work

Buy & sell

annual leave

Season ticket loan

In-house academy & career development

Flexible working

Inclusion & Diversity

We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, it's about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual.


We're all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.