Senior Document Control Lead – EDMS & Compliance

Worley; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Worley in Houston is seeking a Principal Document Controller to lead the document control function across large and complex projects. You will ensure all project documentation is registered, controlled, maintained, and issued through the EDMS with complete metadata and revision histories.

You will provide technical leadership for EDMS configuration, resolve issues, drive process improvements, and collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure traceability,

Qualifications

• Technical school qualification or equivalent education, training, and experience.
• At least seven years of relevant experience in document control, preferably within engineering, construction, energy, chemicals, resources, or other project-driven environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing document control activities on large-scale or complex projects.
• Strong working knowledge of Electronic Document Management Systems (EDMS) and project document control processes.
• Proven experience managing large document registers, revision histories, transmittals, metadata, and document distribution records.
• Experience supporting project teams and coordinating document deliverables across multiple disciplines, stakeholders, and Companies.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and exercise sound judgment when resolving complex technical and operational challenges.

Responsibilities

• Lead project document control activities: Manage the Document Control function for large and complex projects, ensuring that documentation workflows, procedures, and controls are consistently applied throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintaining document integrity: Ensure the project document database accurately captures all documents and drawings, including every revision, transmittal, issue status, and required metadata.
• Managing document distribution: Coordinate the receipt, registration, review, tracking, and controlled issue of project documentation through the EDMS, ensuring that information is distributed to the appropriate stakeholders and Companies in accordance with project requirements.
• Overseeing revision control: Maintain complete and accurate revision histories, ensuring that current and superseded documents are correctly identified and that project teams have access to the appropriate information.
• Ensuring traceability and compliance: Maintain a reliable record of every document issued to each Company throughout the project, supporting contractual requirements, project governance, auditability, and information security.
• Providing technical leadership: Apply advanced document control knowledge to interpret complex requirements, resolve challenging issues, and determine appropriate courses of action in line with established organizational policies, procedures, and project objectives.
• Supporting EDMS functionality: Act as a technical resource for document management systems, assisting with system configuration, troubleshooting, process improvements, and the effective use of document control tools.
• Driving process improvements: Identify opportunities to improve document control workflows, systems, and procedures, contributing to the development and implementation of more efficient and consistent ways of working.
• Collaborating across project teams: Work closely with engineering, project management, procurement, construction, clients, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure document control requirements are understood and effectively implemented.
• Providing guidance and support: Share technical knowledge, provide instruction on document control methods, and support less experienced team members. Where required, provide work direction and review completed assignments to ensure quality and consistency.
• Managing complex assignments independently: Exercise sound judgment when addressing difficult or unusual document control challenges, seeking technical guidance when appropriate and escalating matters that require additional support.
• Promoting continuous improvement: Contribute to a culture of accountability, collaboration, and quality by encouraging consistent document management practices and sharing knowledge across the project organization

Skills

Document control

Metadata management

Revision control

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Technical school qualification or equivalent

Tools

EDMS

Job description

Worley in Houston is seeking a Principal Document Controller to lead the document control function across large and complex projects. You will ensure all project documentation is registered, controlled, maintained, and issued through the EDMS with complete metadata and revision histories.

You will provide technical leadership for EDMS configuration, resolve issues, drive process improvements, and collaborate with engineering, procurement, and construction teams to ensure traceability,