Document Controller and Technical Coordinator

Document Controller and Technical CoordinatorBenghazi, Libya · Full time, resident on site · Start as soon as possibleWe are looking for an experienced document controller, with building construction projects behind them and strong AutoCAD skills, to join our site team in Benghazi.Matla Design is an international architecture and engineering practice founded in 2008, with offices in London and Istanbul and close to 500 projects delivered in around 35 countries. We design, engineer and supervise under one coordinated team, and we are the Designer and Construction Supervisor on a major hospital project in Benghazi.This is not a filing post. Our site team deals every day with the contractor, the client's representatives and our head office, and with a steady flow of drawings, submittals, inspection requests, letters and emails. You hold the record, keep every open item moving to closure, and support the engineers with drafting, so their time stays on inspection and technical review. You report to the Head of Site Supervision and work with the site engineers and our head office in Istanbul.What you will do

• Register every document the site team receives or issues, with a transmittal, and keep the site file matched to our head office archive
• Keep the register of current drawings and specifications, issue each new revision and withdraw superseded copies from the work face
• Run the project logs (RFIs, shop drawings, material submittals, inspection requests, non-conformance reports, site instructions) with the date and age of every open item
• Keep our minutes and action list for site and coordination meetings, and follow up open actions every day until they close
• Check every outgoing document before it leaves: reference, revision, attachments and recipients
• Prepare sketches, mark-ups and record drawings for the engineers, and compare shop drawings with the issued design
• Keep the team's daily attendance and the dated photo record, and compile the site records for the weekly and monthly reportsWhat you will need
• A bachelor's degree in architecture or civil engineering.
• 5+ years on building construction projects, at least 3 of them in site document control or technical coordination
• AutoCAD: you produce and edit drawings, sketches and mark-ups without help
• Advanced Excel: you build and run registers and logs. Word and Outlook
• PDF mark-up and comparison software
• Arabic and English, spoken and written, including minutes and follow-up notes in bothHow you work
• Organised and exact: every document has one place, one reference and one current revision
• Same-day discipline: everything is logged, minuted and chased the day it happens
• Persistent and polite: you follow an item every day until it is closed
• You leave technical decisions to the engineers who own them, and keep project information inside the project
• At ease in an international team, with engineers, the contractor's staff and the client's representatives in the roomNice to have
• Hospital or healthcare projects, or other large, heavily serviced buildings
• Work on the consultant or supervision side
• Revit, and electronic document management systems
• TurkishWorking conditionsFull time on site in Benghazi, Saturday to Thursday. The role includes daily site walks across all floors and buildings, including active work areas, in full PPE and under the site HSE rules.How to applyApply here, or send your CV in English as a PDF to careers@matla.design, subject "Document Controller and Technical Coordinator". For each project, tell us the building type, your role, your dates and the registers and logs you ran, and state your AutoCAD level and your level in Arabic and English. That is what we look at first.Closing date: 053/11/2026. We review applications as they arrive.We welcome applications from every nationality and background.