Document Controller

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About us
Hop aboard Damen Naval; the naval division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group, where 12,000 professionals work worldwide. Damen Naval delivers advanced naval vessels to clients all over the globe. By implementing the most innovative technological developments in practice, we continue to push the boundaries of the shipbuilding industry. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role
As the Document Controller at Damen Naval, you will play an important supporting role in the build of state-of-the-art naval vessels. You will support a naval-shipbuilding project team by managing and exchanging all relevant documentation with the customer, partners, and/or subcontractors. Your key responsibilities will include planning and executing scheduled internal and external document distributions, as well as coordinating follow-up to ensure timely and complete information exchange. You will ensure confidentiality by verifying that information is shared and available in compliance with all permissions. Additionally, you will be responsible for registering all exchanged information in the Product Data Management (PDM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems under strict configuration control.

Key accountabilities
In this role, your 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
We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• 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, as a security screening is part of the hiring process.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required. Candidates with 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.

• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.

• Additional benefits including a bicycle plan and company fitness.

Application & information
Are you interested in this position, please submit your application with your CV and cover 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 this vacancy or Damen Naval, please visit the Damen Naval website, the Damen Naval Career website or contact the Corporate Recruitment department via +31 118 485 000.

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.

Acquisition and introduction of candidates without a formal request is not appreciated and they will not be considered.

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