Document Controller

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Hitachi Rail
Hitachi Rail designs, manufactures, and maintains advanced rail solutions across the globe.
Manage project documents, registers, and data repositories, ensuring compliance.
2 days ago ago
Intermediate (4-7 years), Junior (1-3 years)
Full Time
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Office Full-Time
Company Size
38,000 Employees
Service Specialisms
Rolling Stock Manufacturing
Rolling Stock Maintenance
Digital Signalling & Train Control
Ticketing & Payment Systems
Operations & Maintenance (O&M)
Turnkey Railway Solutions
Smart Mobility / Digital Asset Management
Sector Specialisms
Rolling Stock
Signalling
Turnkey Solutions
Operation
Service
Maintenance
High-Speed Rolling Stock
Express Trains
Role
What you would be doing
data verification
document archiving
repository maintenance
register management
document management
client liaison
  • Liaison with internal team, client and subcontractors to resolve queries
  • Performance of document and data record verification activities, including reviewing key repositories
  • Archiving of documents and data in accordance with the Data Management Plan
  • The maintenance and protection of document and data repositories (hard and soft copy)
  • The creation and maintenance of document and data registers
  • Understand and follow the project delivery processes, methodologies, and use the defined tools as set out in the Hitachi Management System and the project specific Data Management Plans
  • Support to the creation, review and approval of project documents and data
  • The implementation of Document Management activities across projects in accordance with the Data Management Plan
  • Receipt and distribution of documents and data
What you bring
sharepoint
livelink
ms office
adobe
configuration control
stakeholder management

We are currently looking for a Document Controller to join the team in our Stratford office. Day to day you will be working in a team of Document Controllers and manage relationships with teams from every part of our business. You will need strong stakeholder management skills and be highly organised.

Human Skills

  • Experience with Data Management tools such as SharePoint or LiveLink, as well as strong MS Office and Adobe skills
  • Good interpersonal, verbal and written communication, including good customer service skills
  • Understanding of Configuration Control.
  • Able to establish strong relationships with the rest of the team
  • Prior experience of implementing document and data management within a Project and/or Commercial environment
  • Excellent relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders
  • Able to work with minimal direction delivering document and data management activities within a challenging environment
  • High standards of numeracy and literacy
  • Strong at working on initiative and helping to drive the team forward
  • Previous experience in a customer facing role
  • GCSEs in English and Math’s or equivalent
  • Methodical and meticulous, with a keen eye for detail
  • Able to learn and understand the process of controlling our artefacts
Benefits

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

This role will work from our office in Stratford, London. You will enjoy our SMART working policy, which sees you in an office a minimum of twice per week, with the ability to work in a hybrid fashion around this.

Training + Development
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Company
Overview
Culture + Values
  • Wa (Harmony): We need to show respect to our colleagues, our suppliers, our clients and our stakeholders. We show respect to earn respect.
  • Makoto (Sincerity): We should act with integrity in all we say and do, … we maintain fairness in all our dealings; our reputation is founded on how we go about our business.
  • Kaitakusha – Seishin (Pioneering Spirit): We lead with ambition, seeking new challenges; we are not afraid to be flexible and adapt to the changing needs of our business.
Environment + Sustainability
100% Emission
Scope 1 & 2 by 2030
Target to achieve complete elimination of operational greenhouse gas emissions.
40% Reduction
Scope 3 by 2030
Aims to reduce emissions across the entire value chain, including supply chain and product use.
12% Decrease
Scope 1 & 2 in FY22
Achieved a significant drop in operational emissions in the fiscal year 2022.
90% Lower
CO₂ in HS2 Fleet
Accredited with PAS 2080, demonstrating a major improvement in fleet efficiency.
  • Carbon neutrality across business sites by 2030
  • Carbon neutrality across entire value chain by 2050
  • Net-zero across value chain by 2050 and net-zero operations by 2030
Inclusion & Diversity
October 2023
DEI Global Committee Launched
The company established a global committee to oversee diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
Membership Doubled
Employee Resource Group Growth
Employee Resource Group membership has grown significantly following leadership inclusion interventions.
78%
EDI Score
The company achieved a score of 78% on its EDI metrics following targeted wellbeing and inclusion initiatives.
  • Gender-focused efforts: working to achieve a better gender balance
  • UK/Ireland, Italy, Japan regional DEI programmes underway
  • Defined focus areas include: Gender; Nationality, Ethnicity and Cultural Background; Multi‑Generations; LGBTQIA+; Disability and Neurodiversity
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