Senior Document Control Specialist

About the Position 

We’re seeking a Senior Document Control Specialist to support large, heavy-civil infrastructure projects in highways, roads, and bridges, transit (bus and rail), aviation (international airports), and water sectors delivered through both traditional and alternative methods. This role is responsible for establishing, implementing, and governing document control strategies, systems, and workflows across all project phases to ensure accuracy, compliance, and accessibility of project documentation. 

This is a full-time, long-term, on-site position located in Atlanta, GA. 

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Define and implement document control standards, workflows, and procedures aligned with client, regulatory, and internal requirements. 
• Establish and manage document control systems, including processes for authoring, review, approval, distribution, version control, and archiving. 
• Oversee the full document lifecycle, ensuring accuracy, traceability, and accessibility of project records. 
• Manage and audit document control processes and systems to ensure compliance with project requirements, contractual obligations, and applicable regulations. 
• Develop and implement document retention, archival, and records management strategies in alignment with project and organizational needs. 
• Serve as a primary point of contact for document control across project teams, coordinating with project managers, engineers, contractors, and client stakeholders. 
• Provide training and guidance to project personnel on document control procedures, systems, and best practices. 
• Review new and revised documentation for conformance with established standards and workflows. 
• Support quality reviews, audits, and inspections by ensuring documentation is complete, organized, and readily accessible. 
• Generate and analyze reports on document status, approvals, and outstanding actions to support project controls and decision-making. 
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior document control staff, ensuring consistency and quality of deliverables. 
• Support preparation of documentation for regulatory submissions and project closeout. 
• When serving as the sole document control resource on a project, may also support meeting agenda preparation, minutes, and other administrative tasks as needed.    

Attributes  

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 
• Strong organizational and analytical thinking skills with the ability to structure and manage complex information. 
• Collaborative mindset that fosters teamwork, trust, and positive relationships across multidisciplinary teams. 
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess downstream impacts of decisions. 
• Commitment to continuous improvement and optimization of document control processes and systems. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business administration, project management, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.  
• 8+ years of document control, project controls, or technical administrative experience on large (>$500M), complex, heavy-civil infrastructure projects. 
• Experience establishing or managing document control systems, workflows, and procedures across multiple project phases. 
• Experience working with construction and project-related documents, including drawings, RFIs, submittals, and correspo