Document Control Manager - Information Governance

Parsons; Tabuk; On-site; SAR 550,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, seeks a senior Document Control Manager – Information Governance to lead document control, records governance, and EDMS administration for a major infrastructure program. The role champions metadata, retention, and secure information handling across engineering, procurement, and construction teams.

You will manage a multinational team, enforce governance standards, and drive timely, compliant deliverables while coordinating with client and contractor

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional qualification in a related field.
• Minimum 15 years' progressive experience in document control, records management, and information governance.
• Proven leadership on major construction or mega‑project programs.

Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce program‑wide document control policies, procedures, standards, and governance requirements.
• Develop document numbering, classification, metadata rules, naming conventions, and retention schedules.
• Define SOPs for creation, review, transmission, revision, storage, and archival of records.
• Oversee EDMS deployment, configuration, administration, and optimization.
• Ensure EDMS workflows support engineering, procurement, construction, commercial, contractual, legal, and closeout needs.
• Lead multinational document control teams across multiple packages and disciplines.

Skills

Document control

Information governance

Records management

EDMS administration

Aconex

ProjectWise

PMWeb

Metadata management

Revision control

Workflow management

Team leadership

Quality auditing

Giga-projects

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Management, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Aconex

ProjectWise

PMWeb

Job description

Document Control Manager – Information Governance in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia is a senior construction opportunity that leads document control, records governance, EDMS administration, and information security for a multi‑billion‑dollar infrastructure program. Parsons Corporation is looking for an experienced information‑management leader to manage the full lifecycle of engineering, commercial, contractual, and legal records across multiple project entities and work packages.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and enforce program-wide document control policies, procedures, standards, and governance requirements.
• Develop document numbering systems, classification frameworks, metadata rules, naming conventions, and retention schedules.
• Define standard operating procedures for the creation, review, approval, transmission, revision, storage, and archival of records.
• Oversee the deployment, configuration, administration, and optimization of the Enterprise Document Management System.
• Ensure EDMS workflows support engineering, procurement, construction, commercial, contractual, legal, and closeout requirements.
• Maintain governance over drawings, technical submittals, correspondence, contracts, reports, registers, approvals, and project records.
• Monitor metadata accuracy, revision status, review codes, ownership, distribution lists, and approval histories.
• Control user permissions and access rights for confidential, restricted, commercial, contractual, and legally sensitive information.
• Safeguard project records in accordance with client requirements, Parsons data privacy standards, and information‑security protocols.
• Lead a multinational team of document controllers supporting multiple infrastructure packages and project disciplines.
• Allocate responsibilities, set service standards, review performance, and resolve processing backlogs.
• Conduct regular quality audits to identify indexing errors, missing revisions, incomplete metadata, duplicate records, and workflow failures.
• Enforce corrective actions where contractors or project teams fail to comply with approved information‑management procedures.
• Coordinate with engineering, procurement, construction, project controls, commercial, and legal teams to maintain efficient information flow.
• Track technical submissions, requests for information, design reviews, approvals, transmittals, and contractor deliverables.
• Produce document status reports, turnaround‑time analysis, overdue‑action summaries, and workflow‑performance dashboards.
• Identify bottlenecks affecting engineering reviews, contractor responses, approvals, and construction information release.
• Escalate repeated non‑compliance, security concerns, delayed submissions, and records‑management risks to senior leadership.
• Lead document‑control readiness for commissioning, handover, contract closeout, and final archival.
• Verify the completeness of as‑built drawings, operating manuals, warranties, test records, certificates, and final project documentation.
• Deliver EDMS training, procedural guidance, and compliance support to project personnel and contractors.
• Maintain reliable audit trails for document creation, review, revision, approval, issue, access, and archival activities.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Management, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in document control, records management, and information governance.
• Proven managerial or leadership responsibility on major construction, infrastructure, or mega‑project programs.
• Advanced proficiency with EDMS platforms such as Aconex, ProjectWise, PMWeb, or comparable systems.
• Detailed knowledge of engineering drawings, design stages, technical submittals, construction records, and closeout documentation.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, revision control, document numbering, workflow design, and records retention.
• Experience controlling engineering, commercial, contractual, legal, and confidential project information.
• Demonstrated ability to lead document‑control teams across multiple contractors and project packages.
• Strong knowledge of information security, access control, audit trails, and data confidentiality.
• Exceptional organizational capability with consistent attention to accuracy, traceability, and compliance.
• Excellent written and verbal technical English communication skills.
• Confidence working with senior project directors, consultants, contractors, engineers, and client representatives.
• Ability to maintain strict governance under high document volumes and aggressive program timelines.
• Willingness to relocate to and work full‑time in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
• Previous experience on Saudi Arabian giga‑projects is highly desirable.
• Exposure to NEOM, Trojena, Oxagon, Red Sea Global, or comparable programs is advantageous.
• Professional certification in Information Governance, Records Management, or a related field is preferred.

Skills Set

• Document control
• Information governance
• Records management
• EDMS administration
• Aconex
• ProjectWise
• PMWeb
• Engineering document management
• Document numbering
• Metadata management
• Revision control
• Drawing registers
• Technical submittals
• Transmittal management
• Contract records
• Commercial documentation
• Legal records
• Data confidentiality
• Access control
• Information security
• Quality auditing
• Workflow management
• Turnaround‑time reporting
• Records retention
• Project closeout
• As‑built documentation
• Team leadership
• Contractor compliance
• Giga‑project information management

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to define and control the information‑governance framework of a major infrastructure program in Tabuk, influencing design coordination, contractual compliance, construction progress, data security, and final project handover across multiple high‑value packages.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, program management, construction management, and technical services for large infrastructure and urban development initiatives. In Saudi Arabia, the company supports complex programs through disciplined information governance, advanced digital systems, rigorous project controls, and multidisciplinary delivery expertise.