Senior Document Controller

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Dubai, ARE
In-Office
Senior level
Energy
The Role
Manages project document control and information management activities, including tracking, logging, indexing, distributing, and archiving project records. Implements project procedures, supports documentation audits, trains team members on EDMS, identifies process improvements, and coordinates with engineering and project management teams. Supervises assigned document controllers and ensures accurate, timely document handling within EPC oil and gas projects.
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Job Overview:

The Senior Document Controller has developed specialized Document Control-specific skills through job-related training and considerable on-the-job experience. They can provide support to their team with a limited degree of supervision. They can act as an informal resource for colleagues with less experience. The Senior Document Controller is skilled in various processes, procedures, and systems.

Responsibilities

Key Tasks and Responsibilities:

  • Assist the Lead Document Management lead in completing the day-to-day project activities
  • Gain experience in the following work area: iDocs
  • Develop basic technical skills to complete assigned work
  • Become familiar with specific aspects of the contract and project team requirements pertaining to information management and project delivery (standards, procedures, and EDMS)
  • Read and implement project-specific information management procedures and work instruction
  • Create work instructions where needed
  • Implement project-specific information management procedures and work instruction
  • Communicate document management solutions and concepts to the project team
  • Responsible for identifying information management issues or areas of improvement
  • Continue developing skills to complete repetitive tasks efficiently
  • Participates in project documentation audits
  • Ensure all project team members have the appropriate training for EDMS as required
  • Prioritize and organize own/team’s work to meet agreed-upon deadlines
  • Accurately track, log, and distribute releases of both internal and external documentation, including metadata
  • Archive project records
  • Index and distribute project documents in an accurate and timely manner

      Reports to: 
      Project: Lead Document Management/PEM 
      Functional: Department Manager 
      Liaise with: Lead Document Management, Project Engineering, Project Management, and Department Manager 
      Supervises: Assigned Document Controllers 

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications and Education:

  • 5 years minimum Document Management experience with a major contractor or consultant  
  • Bachelor’s Degree in any stream or equivalent diploma (preferably in Computer Science)
  • Good knowledge of Electronic Database Management System (EDMS) software, MS Office, and Adobe
  • Computer literate in Microsoft programs:  Word, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Project
  • Hands-on experience in EPC project execution in the Oil and Gas contracting industry
  • Ability to work as a team member as well as act as a team leader (if the position is a Lead position)
  • Successful communication skills, business acumen, and decision-making capability
  • Certified iDocs Trainer (preferable)

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About Us
Our ingenuity fuels daily life. Together, we’ve forged some of the most trusted partnerships across the energy value chain to make what was once just an idea a reality: laying subsea infrastructure thousands of feet below sea level, installing platforms hundreds of miles from shore, using our expertise to design and build offshore wind infrastructure, and reshaping the onshore landscape to deliver the energy products the world needs safely and sustainably.
For more than 100 years, we've been making the impossible possible. Today, we're driving the energy transition with more than 30,000 of the brightest minds across 54 countries.

Skills Required

  • At least 5 years of document management experience with a major contractor or consultant
  • Bachelor's degree in any discipline or equivalent diploma
  • Knowledge of EDMS software, Microsoft 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 act as a team leader when required
  • Strong communication skills, business acumen, and decision-making capability
  • Computer Science background
  • Certified iDocs Trainer

McDermott International Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about McDermott International and has not been reviewed or approved by McDermott International.

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — U.S. materials cite a minimum of 23 PTO days and 14 paid holidays, indicating a broad leave offering. Paid time off and holidays are positioned as a comparative strength within the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Company materials indicate paid parental leave, including 10 weeks paid maternity and four weeks paid family bonding. These provisions reinforce support for families during key life events.
  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Field and offshore roles often include overtime, per diems, and project allowances that can materially increase earnings. These extras are a notable component of total compensation in project-driven roles.

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The Company
HQ: Houston, TX
26,626 Employees

What We Do

McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. Our customers trust our technology-driven approach to design and build infrastructure solutions to responsibly transport and transform oil and gas into the products the world needs today. From concept to commissioning, our expertise and comprehensive solutions deliver certainty, innovation and added value to energy projects around the world. It is called the “One McDermott Way.” Operating in over 54 countries, McDermott’s locally-focused and globally-integrated resources include approximately 40,000 employees, a diversified fleet of specialty marine construction vessels and fabrication facilities around the world. To learn more, visit www.mcdermott.com.

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