Lead Document Controller

About the Role

As a Lead Document Controller at Baker Hughes you will coordinate document control for large‑scale subsea projects in a client‑facing, high‑profile environment. The position offers significant scope for growth and development while working within a dynamic project team. You will be accountable for managing technical documentation throughout the project lifecycle, including storage, review, approval, distribution, and maintaining the Master Document Register in an electronic system. Acting as the single point of contact for the client, you will supervise the global document control team, ensure compliance with contractual requirements and global SP&S standards, and provide regular reports and metrics to both Baker Hughes and the client. Additionally, you will drive on‑time delivery of documentation, identify improvement opportunities, and help raise the profile of document control across the business. • Manage technical documentation for large‑scale subsea projects, including storage, review, approval, and distribution. • Serve as the single point of contact for the client on document control matters. • Supervise and direct the global document control team. • Identify client contractual document control requirements and implement a compliant project‑specific Document Management Plan. • Maintain the Master Document Register in an electronic document management system. • Produce and distribute document control reports and metrics to Baker Hughes and the client. • Ensure timely delivery of technical documentation throughout the project. • Ensure adherence to global SP&S standards for document control. • Identify improvement opportunities, escalate concerns, and implement improvements. • Promote the profile of document control across the project and wider SP&S business.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸document management
• ▸master register
• ▸reporting
• ▸standards compliance
• ▸client liaison
• ▸team supervision

What You Bring

Are you an experienced Document Controller seeking your next role? Would you like to work for a world‑leading energy technology business? Join our Subsea Production Systems team, which designs smarter systems to control and monitor oil and gas extraction. Our subsea and surface pressure capabilities are industry‑leading, and we manufacture market‑leading sub‑sea production systems for offshore facilities. To succeed, you should hold a degree or global equivalent, preferably in a related field, and have significant senior‑level document control experience. Experience coordinating document management on major projects, using multiple document management systems, and working in oil and gas or a similar engineering environment is essential. • Hold a degree or global equivalent, preferably in a related field. • Significant senior‑level document control experience, including coordinating document management on projects. • Experience with multiple document management systems and major project environments. • Background in oil and gas or similar engineering environment (preferred but not essential).

Requirements

• ▸degree
• ▸senior
• ▸document control
• ▸dms
• ▸oil & gas
• ▸engineering

Benefits

We recognize that everyone works best in different ways, so we offer flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home one day per week. Our flexible patterns support a healthy work‑life balance and enable you to deliver your best performance. Baker Hughes invests in the health and well‑being of its workforce, offering comprehensive private medical care, life insurance, disability programs, and tailored financial and voluntary benefits. We also provide contemporary work‑life balance policies, wellbeing activities, and a supportive, inclusive culture that encourages authentic contributions. • Flexible working hours with one day per week remote work. • Comprehensive private medical care options. • Life insurance and disability programs. • Tailored financial and voluntary benefits. • Contemporary work‑life balance policies and wellbeing activities.

Work Environment

Office Full-Time