Senior Document Controller
Role Overview
The Senior Document Controller provides support to the team with limited supervision and can serve as an informal resource for less-experienced colleagues.
The role applies specialized document-control skills across processes, procedures, and systems.
Reports to the Project Lead Document Management/PEM and functionally to the Department Manager.
Liaises with Lead Document Management, Project Engineering, Project Management, and the Department Manager.
Supervises assigned Document Controllers.
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Role overview
The Senior Document Controller provides support to the team with limited supervision and can serve as an informal resource for less-experienced colleagues.
The role applies specialized document-control skills across processes, procedures, and systems.
Reports to the Project Lead Document Management/PEM and functionally to the Department Manager.
Liaises with Lead Document Management, Project Engineering, Project Management, and the Department Manager.
Supervises assigned Document Controllers.
Responsibilities
- Assist the Lead Document Management lead with day-to-day project activities and develop familiarity with iDocs.
- Learn contract and project requirements for information management and project delivery, including standards, procedures, and EDMS.
- Read and implement project-specific information management procedures and work instructions, and create work instructions where needed.
- Communicate document management solutions and concepts to the project team; identify information management issues and improvement opportunities.
- Develop efficiency in repetitive tasks and participate in project documentation audits.
- Ensure project team members receive required EDMS training.
- Prioritize and organize own and team work to meet agreed deadlines.
- Accurately track, log, and distribute internal and external documentation releases, including metadata.
- Archive project records and accurately index and distribute project documents in a timely manner.
Qualifications and education
- At least five years of document management experience with a major contractor or consultant.
- Bachelor’s degree in any discipline or equivalent diploma; Computer Science is preferred.
- Good knowledge of EDMS software, MS Office, and Adobe.
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, and Project.
- Hands-on EPC project execution experience in the oil and gas contracting industry.
- Ability to work as a team member and, if the position is a Lead position, act as a team leader.
- Communication skills, business acumen, and decision-making capability.
- Certified iDocs Trainer is preferred.
About McDermott
McDermott describes work across the energy value chain, including subsea infrastructure, offshore platforms, offshore wind infrastructure, and onshore energy projects.
The company reports more than 100 years of history and a workforce of more than 30,000 across 54 countries.
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