Lead Document Controller

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About us
Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in The Netherlands, Romania, and Germany. We are the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs 12,000 professionals globally. Damen Naval designs and builds advanced naval vessels for customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in naval shipbuilding. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As the Lead Document Controller at Damen Naval, you ensure document controlling is executed to the highest standards by managing the document controlling process flows over our shipbuilding projects. You will ensure the Document Controlling team adopts a collective and unified way of working, while each team member is assigned to different project. You will also coach and mentor (junior) Document Controllers and act as an escalation point for specific issues. You will also operate as an individual contributor, supporting a project team by processing and exchanging all relevant documentation to and from the customer, partners and/or subcontractors.

Key accountabilities

As the Lead Document Controller your key responsibilities include:

• Continuously improving the document controlling process within Damen Naval.
• Training and coaching the Document Controlling staff to the set best-practice.
• Resolve escalated issues effectively with internal- and external stakeholders.
• Processing incoming and outgoing documents and vendor data in different databases (PDM, PLM).
• Registration, distribution, and expediting to ensure availability to authorized personnel and recipients.
• Ensuring timely delivery of internal documents and vendor data.
• Coordinating the internal and external stakeholders (customer, subcontractor, colleagues) to resolve document or data issues across different sub-projects.
• Reporting on the status and progress of Document Control activities.

Skills & experience

To excel as a Lead Document Controller, you possess the following qualifications and qualities:

• 3+ years of experience with document control, administration, and processing vendor documents in a technical, logistic or production environment.
• Extensive experience working with PDM (Enovia) and PLM software.
• Extensive experience with MS Office (Excel).
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business Administration or Logistical-related study.
• Competencies: accuracy, proactive attitude, keen eye for detail, flexibility, good communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Good command of either the Dutch or German language -written and verbal- is critical, along with good command of the English language.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

What we offer
At Damen Naval, we highly value our employees, and we will support your professional and personal development. We also provide our employees with:

• A competitive salary and 8% holiday pay.

• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.

• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.

• PME-pension arrangement with an employer contribution of 60%.

• Profit sharing based on company results.

• Working from home policy and other benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Other
Are you interested in this position, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter, along with an indication of:

• Your (preferred) monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.

• Availability (fulltime / part-time / number of hours).

• Notice period / possible starting date.

For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website , the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via .

Please note that due to the military nature of our projects, only candidates who have permanent EU nationality can be considered for vacancies at Damen Naval. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to process candidates who (also) have a non-EU passport or nationality. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

Damen Naval does not approve commercial, contractor and/or agency or other commercial use of this advertisement. Proposing candidates without invitation is not appreciated and they will not be considered.