About the role
At NOV SPS, the Head of Document Control is responsible for leading the global document control function within SPS’s manufacturing operations. This role oversees the entire NOV SPS Document Control ensuring standardized, efficient, and compliant document management across all projects and systems.
The Head of Document Control ensures correct allocation of resources to projects and stakeholders, supports day-to-day project and documentation operations, and keeps teams aligned, consistent, and engaged. The role is key to ensuring compliance with quality processes, meeting customer expectations, and driving continuous improvement.
Reporting to the Quality Director, the Head of Document Control plays a strategic role in ensuring that document governance, compliance, and digital transformation remain core enablers of NOV’s Quality Management System. This role is critical to establishing consistent global practices, ensuring regulatory and client compliance, and enabling digital efficiency across SPS operations.
This is a highly visible leadership position that requires collaboration with global business leaders and direct engagement with clients, regulators, and senior management.
About the Company
At NOV, we deliver safe, high-quality, technology-driven equipment, services, and support that are essential to the global energy industry. Our mission is simple: we power the industry that powers the world.
At NOV’s business unit Subsea Production Systems (SPS) we empower the energy sector with passion, expertise, and forward-thinking solutions. We develop reliable and efficient subsea energy production products that enhance our customers’ energy portfolios. With strong roots in the offshore oil and gas industry, we are also at the forefront of future technologies such as water treatment, ammonia storage, carbon injection, and wind energy—helping to reduce CO₂ emissions and drive the energy transition.
SPS is headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, with production sites in Kalundborg (DK), Porto do Acu (Br), Glenrothes (UK) and offices in Stavanger and Oslo (No), Rio de Janeiro ( Br), and Houston (US). Globally, our team includes around 1,500 dedicated professionals, contributing to NOV’s workforce of approximately 34,000 employees.
What We Offer
- Strategic Influence: Take ownership of a global document control function that directly shapes NOV SPS’s quality, compliance, and digital transformation strategy, with high visibility across the organization.
- Global Leadership: Lead and develop multicultural teams across Denmark and Brazil, fostering collaboration, alignment, and excellence within a unified global function.
- Digital Transformation: Drive modernization initiatives through automation, system integration, and data-driven solutions that enhance efficiency and consistency across SPS operations.
- Meaningful Impact: Contribute to NOV’s commitment to operational excellence by ensuring documentation integrity, compliance, and continuous improvement across global projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Document Control and Project Document Control teams across Denmark and Brazil, ensuring alignment under a unified global function.
- Lead the functional ownership of the document control system landscape (RigDoc, Oracle, Teamcenter integration), ensuring consistent global use and close collaboration with IT on system maintenance, development, and scalability.
- Drive the digitalization of the Manufacturing Data Book (MDB) process, leading initiatives such as template-to-work order automation, tablet-based data capture, and metadata-driven auto-compilation.
- Ensure full compliance of all documentation with regulatory, legal, contractual, and quality requirements.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and IT to embed document control processes into production workflows.
- Act as the single interface for all project document control activities, ensuring effective mobilization and coordination of global resources.
- Champion innovation in document control, leading pilots and scaling digital solutions across SPS global operations.
- Drive knowledge transfer, continuous improvement, and capability development within the Document Control and Project Support functions.
- Develop, update, and enforce procedures and guidelines; provide training; and ensure consistent practices across all projects.
- Establish, monitor, and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for global projects and document control performance, ensuring targets are met..
- Coordinate training programs, including planning, content development, and delivery to trainers and users.
- Drive adoption through training initiatives, change management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Champion change management and communication across departments.
- Travel is required to sites to support adoption, training, and stakeholder engagement.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor or Master degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or Information Management (Master’s preferred).
- 8–10 years of experience in document control, project documentation, or technical data management, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Demonstrated success in leading system implementation or optimization projects (RigDoc, Oracle, Teamcenter, or similar).
- Familiarity with quality management and data governance frameworks
- Experience managing global teams and coordinating across multiple business units and regions.
- Vendor and stakeholder management experience, including oversight of contracts and service-level agreements.
- Deep understanding of document control, data management, and business processes within engineering or manufacturing environments.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to collaborate across functions — Engineering, Quality, Projects, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and IT.
- Proven leadership and change management capability, able to build alignment and accountability across global teams.
- Strategic thinker with an analytical and systems mindset, able to translate business needs into scalable process and system solutions.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, bridging technical and business perspectives effectively.
- Experience in digital transformation and in driving user adoption of enterprise systems and tools.
Why Join Us?
Join us to be part of a collaborative team , shaping the future of subsea energy products and solutions.
We offer a dynamic and collaborative work environment where growth, innovative thinking and continuous improvement are core to how we operate. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to grow professionally through diverse and challenging assignments, supported by experienced colleagues and a culture that values learning and development.
Joining NOV means becoming part of a purpose-driven organization that is committed to operational excellence, sustainability, and long-term career progression.
With us at NOV Subsea Production Systems you’ll have an important role in delivering reliable and efficient subsea solutions, meeting today’s energy demands and shaping a more sustainable future.
Join us in going beyond to shape the future of energy. Because energy matters.
