Principal Document Controller
Role Overview
Principal Document Controller role based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, reporting to the Head of the Department.
Leads document control across major engineering, FEED, EPC, and construction projects, ensuring accurate handling in line with procedures, client requirements, and quality standards.
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Role overview
Principal Document Controller role based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, reporting to the Head of the Department.
Leads document control across major engineering, FEED, EPC, and construction projects, ensuring accurate handling in line with procedures, client requirements, and quality standards.
Document control and engineering work
- Establish and maintain document control procedures, workflows, and filing systems; manage document receipt, registration, distribution, tracking, and archiving.
- Maintain document numbering, revision control, transmittal processes, registers, master document lists, and correspondence logs.
- Lead document control activities across multiple projects and control drawings, specifications, calculations, datasheets, reports, procedures, and vendor documents.
- Coordinate engineering, procurement, construction, QA/QC, and client teams on submissions and approvals; track review cycles and expedite overdue items.
- Manage client systems and document exchanges with clients, subcontractors, vendors, and third-party consultants; prepare and monitor transmittals.
- Administer EDMS platforms including Aconex, SPF, SharePoint, ProArc, Documentum, and TeamBinder; report document status, overdue items, and project KPIs.
- Support system audits and data integrity checks; maintain confidentiality and security of records; develop best practices and continuous improvement.
- Supervise, mentor, and train Document Controllers and Administrators; assign workload, monitor performance, and support project mobilization and system setup.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree or diploma in Business Administration, Information Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 12–15 years of document control experience in Oil & Gas, Energy, Petrochemical, EPC, or Engineering Consultancy environments.
- Experience supporting large-scale FEED, EPC, and Brownfield projects; experience leading document control teams on multidisciplinary projects.
- Experience with ADNOC, Aramco, QatarEnergy, or other major operators is highly desirable.
- Professional certification in Document Control or Records Management is preferred.
Technical skills
- Advanced knowledge of document management systems, including Aconex, SPF, ProArc, SharePoint, and Documentum.
- Strong understanding of engineering document workflows and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Excellent reporting and data management skills; knowledge of ISO 9001 requirements and records management best practices.
- English is listed, with proficiency level options of Basic, Professional, or Fluent but no level specified.
About Technip Energies
Technip Energies describes itself as a global technology and engineering company working in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry, CO2 management, energy, decarbonization, and circularity.
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