Design & Document Control Lead
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 1, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026. Wood scores B on the Alion truth index.
Remarkable people, trusted by clients to design and advance the world.
Wood is recruiting for Design & Document Control Lead with experience in the chemical manufacturing industry. This opportunity is on-site in Pasadena, Texas.
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The Role
As the Design & Document Control Lead you will be responsible for leading a group of mixed discipline designers and document control personnel supporting small facility-based projects in an active chemical manufacturing plant as part of that plant’s capital projects group.
Designing the future. Transforming the world.
Wood’s Operations business delivers solutions to an ever-broadening range of clients across the energy and materials industries globally. We deliver operations, maintenance, modifications, brownfield engineering, asset optimization and management, supporting our clients through the asset lifecycle. We are focused on developing strategic relationships with our clients, providing solutions that deliver efficiency, integrity and reliability.
What we can offer
- Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across Operations Americas sector
- Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs, offering onsite working
- Competitive salary with regular salary reviews to ensure we are rewarding at the right level in line with the market
- Flexible benefits package that can be adapted to suit your lifestyle
- Commitment to continued professional development through development plans tailored to individual needs and interests
- Global connections with leading industry experts around the world who are shaping the standards of our profession
Authorization to work permanently in the U.S. without sponsorship required
- Meet or exceed the company’s safety standards.
- Comply with all company procedures, engineering practices and other standards.
- Manage the design and document control groups at the site.
- Work with staff, department Management, and Project Managers to understand the current and future project workload of the group and assign design resources to support that workload.
- Assist with development of resource schedules and long-term forecasts for the group, understand and escalate the need for additional headcount when the forecast for the portfolio calls for it.
- Work with project teams and management to understand priorities and then assure that your team is focused on those.
- Understand the site and the capital project load well enough to develop a strategy for the design and document control groups which you can then implement to drive success for the site.
- Review and gatekeep requests for design support.
- Drive design estimates and schedules for projects.
- Monitor the design process and create change orders when required.
- Identify and maintain metrics to drive continuous improvement of work processes.
- Onboard new designers and document controllers when they start.
- Train the design group in new processes and procedures.
- Provide guidance to your group around best design approaches and work quality.
- Review, understand, and update existing practices, procedures, and tools used to manage design activities at the site.
- Identify needs and develop new tools and methods to improve the design efforts of the group.
- Drive improvements to document control work process.
- Assure that the design group provides design support for capital and service projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Assure that the design team applies company and industry standards to generate high-quality construction packages.
- Perform evaluations of work performed by members of the design group.
- Work closely with plant engineers, contractors, and team members to achieve project success.
- Manage document control to organize the digital and paper documents and to retain them going forward in an organized manner and per company retention policies.
- Partner with global resources for continuous improvement in document control and designer software and tools.
What makes you remarkable?
At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. If your skills don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.
Skills / Qualifications
- 20+ years’ industrial experience working in the industrial design field, preferably in that of the chemical manufacturing or oil, or gas processing industries.
- Experience leading other designers.
- Experience estimating labor hours and the scheduling of design activities a must.
- Experience in the design of plant systems as currently used in chemical manufacturing facilities.
- Outdoor design experience, able to wear required PPE and drive safely to job site for field measurement/as-built drawings.
- Experience in MicroStation a plus.
- Proficiency in Microsoft, Word, Excel and Outlook.