Document Controller

Career at Damen

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

• 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

• 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 a 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

• 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.

Why Damen?

Damen has 35 shipyards on five different continents and operates in more than 100 countries. We are still growing and that gives you options. You contribute to this growth while benefitting from the diverse development and career opportunities that our company offers. We will continue to challenge you. With our extensive portfolio of products and solutions you will never get bored and never stop learning. We offer you a world of possibilities.
Working at Damen means contributing to the highest quality in shipbuilding, with an eye to the future and future generations. We want to make the world a better place by becoming the most sustainable maritime solution provider. For that, we need you. Become part of our family.