Document Controller (Interim)
Damen Shipyards (Vlissingen)
- Bachelor
- Business Administration, Techniek
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- Latest update 11/21/2024
- Bagger, Scheepsbouw, Maakindustrie
About the company Damen Shipyards
We are Damen
Damen is a family owned business that stands for fellowship, craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and stewardship. We believe that our oceans, seas, lakes and rivers offer humanity a growing range of possibilities in terms of trade, food, energy and recreation. We provide maritime solutions to meet these opportunities, through design, shipbuilding, ship repair and related services.
In the previous century, we revolutionised shipbuilding with standardisation and serial production. More than ninety years and 6,000 ships later, those pillars are unchanged. Their importance is only growing with the need for increased sustainability and digitalisation. It is our aim to combine our proven standardisation with the innovations of digitalisation to become the world’s most sustainable shipbuilder.
Job
We offer you an Ocean of Possibilities. Join our family.
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 interim Document Controller at Damen Naval, you will play an important supporting role in the build of state-of-the-art naval vessels. You support a project team assigned to a shipbuilding project by processing and exchanging all relevant documentation to and from the customer, partners and/or subcontractors. You setup the planning and execution of scheduled internal/external distributions, and coordinate the follow-up. Given the confidentiality of data, you ensure information is shared and available compliant with permissions. You also ensure the exchanged information is duly registered in the Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems under configuration control. For this interim position, we are seeking a freelance/seconded professional who can start on short notice.
Key accountabilities
As the interim Document Controller, your key responsibilities will include:
- 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.
- Initiating effective mitigating actions in case of expected overrun of delivery times.
- Reporting on the status and progress of Document Control activities.
- Identifying and implementing improvements for Document Control tasks.
Skills & experience
To excel as an interim Document Controller, you should possess the following qualifications and qualities:
2+ years of experience with document control, administration and processing vendor documents in a technical, logistic or production environment.
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 the English language, both written and verbal, is essential; ideally, you also have basic language skills in Dutch or German or are at least willing to learn one of these languages.
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 value our interim team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As an interim professional on secondment basis or as a freelancer, we offer you the following conditions:
- An attractive rate, ensuring at least equal pay to permanent staff.
- Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
- Flexibility to work partially from home.
- Challenging and innovative projects.
Other
If you are in this interim assignment, kindly submit your application along with your CV and motivation letter. Please state your preferred agreement, secondment or freelance, along with an indication of:
- Secondment: your monthly gross salary based on fulltime work.
- Freelance: your hourly rate excluding VAT.
- Availability (fulltime / part-time -> number of hours).
- Notice period and/or preferred start date.
For more information about the vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via [email protected].
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.