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<p><span>We are looking for an experienced </span><strong>Document Controller</strong><span> with strong project documentation experience across the full project lifecycle, from early-stage design and pre-contract activities through construction, project delivery</span><strong>, and </strong><span>close-out/handover.</span></p>
<p>The role requires a candidate who can manage, organize, validate, track, and maintain project records in a structured and controlled manner, ensuring that documentation remains accurate, complete, traceable, and accessible throughout each project stage.</p>
<p><strong>Candidate Experience Requirement</strong></p>
<p>The candidate should have proven hands-on experience in document control within construction, development, engineering, or real estate projects, with the ability to support multiple project teams and maintain effective control over project information.</p>
<p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p>
<ul><li>Maintain controlled project documentation in line with agreed procedures, naming conventions, revision control, and approval workflows.</li><li>Support document management activities across design, commercial, construction, quality, commissioning, and close-out stages.</li><li>Coordinate with internal and external project stakeholders to ensure timely submission, review, distribution, and retrieval of project information.</li><li>Review documentation for completeness, correct status, version control, traceability, and alignment with project requirements.</li><li>Support document migration, records clean-up, reporting, archiving, and project handover readiness activities.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Required Document Control Experience</strong></p>
<ul><li>Strong experience managing project documentation across the full project lifecycle, including pre-contract, post-contract, commercial, construction/site execution, and close-out stages.</li><li>Pre-contract experience covering concept, feasibility, design development, tender preparation, tender addenda, clarifications, submissions, and controlled issue of tender documentation to support procurement and appointment activities.</li><li>Post-contract experience supporting the controlled transition of documentation from issued-for-tender and contract documentation through issued-for-construction information, ensuring correct revision control, distribution, superseding, and traceability.</li><li>Experience managing documentation during site activities, including design updates, technical submissions, correspondences, approvals, inspections, quality records, progress-related records, and construction-stage document workflows.</li><li>Commercial document control experience, including controlled handling of tender/commercial submissions, contract documents, variations, claims, payment-related records, cost-related correspondence, procurement records, and supporting documentation for commercial review and audit purposes.</li><li>Close-out experience supporting the compilation, review, tracking, and handover of final project records, including completion documentation, as-built information, operation and maintenance records, warranties, certificates, testing and commissioning records, and authority or stakeholder handover requirements.</li><li>Strong understanding of document control principles, including document numbering, registers, transmittals, approvals, revisions, status tracking, metadata control, and controlled distribution.</li><li>Ability to identify incomplete, outdated, duplicated, incorrectly classified, or misaligned records and support corrective action to maintain accurate and reliable project information.</li><li>Experience working with electronic document management systems, shared repositories, structured project filing environments, and document registers across multiple projects or workstreams.</li><li>Ability to prepare document control reports, trackers, status updates, and audit-support records to assist project teams with timely decision-making and project governance.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Technical Awareness</strong></p>
<p>The candidate should have a general understanding of construction and development project documentation, including design, technical, commercial, quality, and handover information, with the ability to recognize key document types and manage them appropriately within a controlled document environment.</p>
<p><strong>Systems Knowledge</strong></p>
<p>Demonstrated experience using electronic document management systems, project information platforms, shared drives, and document repositories to manage, track, validate, and retrieve project information accurately.</p>
<p><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience</strong></p>
<ul><li>Bachelor's Degree, Diploma, or relevant professional qualification.</li><li>Minimum 5–10 years of document control experience within construction, development, engineering, or real estate projects.</li><li>Experience supporting project teams across the full project lifecycle, from early project stages through final handover.</li><li>Familiarity with UAE construction practices, approval processes, and project documentation requirements is preferred.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Key Competencies</strong></p>
<ul><li>Strong document control and records management capability.</li><li>Good understanding of construction project workflows and documentation processes.</li><li>High attention to detail, accuracy, and audit readiness.</li><li>Strong coordination, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Ability to manage high-volume documentation across multiple projects or workstreams.</li><li>Good reporting and data handling capability, including use of advance Excel or similar tools to support tracking and reporting activities.</li></ul>
<p><strong>Ideal Candidate Profile</strong></p>
<p>The ideal candidate is a<strong> Document Controller</strong> who has proven hands-on experience handling and managing documents for <strong>Design, Commercial, Contracts, Construction, QA/QC, Testing &amp; Commissioning, and Project Close-Out teams</strong>. The candidate must have a clear understanding of how documentation flows throughout the full project lifecycle and must be capable of managing controlled records accurately from initial design through final handover.</p>
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