Senior Document Controller – Space Tech & Compliance

Simera Sense; Somerset West; On-site; ZAR 550,000 - 850,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Space industry exposure

Cutting-edge technology

Competitive salary

Friendly working environment

Job summary

Simera Sense, a leader in Earth observation camera solutions, seeks a Senior Document Controller in Somerset West to oversee document control and governance across projects. You will ensure accuracy, traceability, and compliance of all controlled documents and records, supporting audits and regulatory adherence throughout the product lifecycle.

You will collaborate with Development and Operations teams, manage customer and supplier documentation, and drive improvements in processes, templates,

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years’ relevant document control experience.
• Knowledge of Quality and Documentation Management Standards (ISO 9001, ISO 19475) and best practices.
• Experience using a Product Lifecycle Management System (PLMS) or Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) or similar document and records management systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that customer deliverable documentation is managed accurately, complete, traceable, and delivered within agreed timeframes.
• Maintain a professional and responsive document-control service that supports customer requirements and expectations.
• Distribute customer deliverable documents
• Protect customer information by applying confidentiality, security, and access-control measures.
• Support the timely resolution of customer documentation queries, discrepancies, and audit findings.
• Maintain the Customer distribution register
• Maintain Supplier Master Documentation List and distribution.
• Maintain the integrity, accuracy, and traceability of controlled documents and configuration records throughout the product or project lifecycle.
• Review documents for compliance with document-control procedures, Identification standards, templates and approval workflows.
• Maintain and support applied documentation management principle.
• Conduct document and document meta data-quality checks
• Support internal and external audits by providing complete and accurate records.
• Provide guidance to Internal departments on document management procedure and processes and system requirements.
• Work closely with all internal departments to maintain accurate and consistent information.
• Identify and recommend improvements to document-control processes, workflows, templates, systems, and reporting methods

Skills

Document control

Audit support

Quality standards

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder coaching

Education

Grade 12

Certificate in Document and Records Management

Degree in Information and Knowledge Management

Tools

Teamcenter

EDMS

PLMS

Job description

Simera Sense, a leader in Earth observation camera solutions, seeks a Senior Document Controller in Somerset West to oversee document control and governance across projects. You will ensure accuracy, traceability, and compliance of all controlled documents and records, supporting audits and regulatory adherence throughout the product lifecycle.

You will collaborate with Development and Operations teams, manage customer and supplier documentation, and drive improvements in processes, templates,