About us

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

The role

As Document Controller, you are mainly responsible to support the Damen Naval project team with the exchange and processing of documentation and information that is received from and sent to the customer, partners and/or subcontractors, also in terms of planning and executing the internal/external distribution and follow-up coordination. The exchanged information must also be duly registered in the PDM/PLM system under configuration control.

Key accountabilities

As Document Controller, you are responsible for:

• Supporting the generation of internal documentation, ensuring compliance to the Configuration Management Requirements, including referencing, naming and approval status
• Processing of incoming and outgoing documents in different databases (registration, distribution and expediting), ensuring availability to authorised personnel/recipients.
• Planning, coordination and expediting follow-up on incoming information (GFI) supplied by the customer as well as vendor data being supplied to or by subcontractors and suppliers.
• Communication internally with project engineering teams, including the internal planning and coordination and distributing reports to external parties and internal clients and departments.
• Generation and distribution of document control progress and status reports.
• Responsible for safeguarding the quality of the Project Deliverable and Activities List (PDAL)
• Support generation and review of CM documents (procedures, processes etc) are aligned with the needs of the Project for the daily tasks.
• Identification and implementation of improvements to processes for the achievement of document control and configuration management tasks
• Act as Point of Contact (PoC) for Document Control issues (for internal and external parties)

Skills & experience

As Document Controller, you need to have:

• Mid- or Higher-level professional education (MBO / HBO) preferably in office management, document control or similar.
• Experience in document control, administration, processing vendor documents or in a similar information processing role.
• Experience with 3DX Enovia (document management database) is a big advantage or alternatively experience in another product data/document management database as a minimum requirement.
• Aptitude for working in and with Product Data Management systems (incl. Document Management).
• Experience and skills working in MS Office suite
• Competencies: accuracy, a pro-active attitude, keen eye for detail, flexibility and good interpersonal communication skills.
• Good command of the English language (both written and verbal) is essential; ideally you also have Dutch language skills or are at least willing to commit to learning this language.
• Excellent antecedents because a pre-employment security screening is a standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent multiyear EU citizenship combined with permanent EU work visa are all requirements of the recruitment process for viable candidates, given the military nature of clients and 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.
• 27 holidays and 13 ADV days.
• Travel allowance of 0.21 cents per kilometre.
• Flexible home working policy.

Other

Are you interested in the position of Document Controller (Project Based), and do you recognise yourself in the job description? Please respond directly via the Damen Career Portal.

For more information about the vacancy, Damen Naval or the application process, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Career Portal or call the Corporate Recruitment department on +31 (0)118- 485 000.

Please note that only candidates with a permanent EU citizenship together with a valid permanent EU work visa can be considered as viable candidates. A pre-employment and security screening and investigation form part of the recruitment process.

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