Job Description
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.