Document Controller
21 days ago
West Thurrock
Document Controller West Thurrock (with UK travel as required) Salary - £40,000 - £45,000 Pin Point Recruitment is working with a leading Upper Tier COMAH chemical business to recruit an experienced Document Controller to support its Group Engineering function. This is a newly created role, offering the opportunity to establish and shape document control systems across the organisation. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring engineering and project documentation is effectively managed, controlled, and accessible across multiple UK sites. Key Responsibilities • Document Management & Control, • Receive, log, distribute, and securely store engineering documentation from third-party suppliers, • Maintain accurate document registers for engineering activities and capital projects, • Ensure effective version control and document traceability, • Issue documentation to external stakeholders and maintain transmission records, • Project Support, • Work closely with Project Managers and Engineers to coordinate document flow (drawings, RFIs, TQs), • Manage review cycles, ensuring comments are captured and returned to suppliers, • Support project close-out, ensuring all documentation is complete, up-to-date, and transitioned to as-built status, • System Development & Improvement, • Consolidate existing hard copy and electronic documentation into structured systems, • Improve accessibility and organisation of legacy documentation, • Collaborate with the Group Engineering Manager to develop and standardise document control processes across the Group, • Engineering & Asset Support, • Ensure new documents are correctly titled and numbered, • Support CMMS processes, including issuing and managing equipment tag numbers, • Assist with the control of critical documentation such as Management of Change (MOC) records Experience & Knowledge • Proven experience in a Document Controller or Document Management role within:, • Chemical, Oil & Gas, or similar heavy industry, • Strong understanding of document control processes within capital projects, • Familiarity with engineering documentation such as:, • P&IDs, • Piping isometrics, • Electrical/cable drawings, • Experience supporting multi-million-pound capital projects, • Exposure to developing or improving document management systems Desirable: • Familiarity with CAD software (e.g. AutoCAD), • Experience working on large-scale engineering or infrastructure projects Why Apply? This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a newly created role and make a tangible impact on how engineering documentation is managed across a major industrial organisation