Technical Writer

• An exciting role which involves technical skill and creativity.
• You will be responsible for designing, writing, revising, editing, and publishing.
• The work will include technical documents, promotional and marketing material, application papers, product descriptions, catalogs, manuals, guides, commercial application packages, brochures, and product detail articles.
• Documents will have authors, who can be engineers, sales and marketing professionals, and managers. You will need strong social skills to interact with document authors so that the final publication captures the intentions and goals of the original authors, the technical publications team which you will be a part of, and the company.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes and interprets data to determine appropriate syntax, style, and grammatical usage. Information may be produced on hard copy or electronic medium.
• Performs tasks related to the construction of technical and non-technical illustrations and graphics.
• Attends planning/coordination meetings to assess customer requirements. For example, document authors are a type of customer. An instructor who wants to create a training deck is a type of customer.
• Overseeing preparation of illustration material, selecting drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts.
• Supporting slides, video production, working as an editor on specific publications including article selection, artwork coordination, productions, and distribution.
• May assist in preparation and layout of work for publication. Individuals act as internal experts, consultants, and program/project managers and represent the corporation to external groups, agencies, and vendors.
• Working with documentation and publication software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe Acrobat (and variations), DITA XML editors such as Oxygen XML editor, XMetaL, or others, image editors such as Microsoft Paint, Microsoft Visio, or Paint.NET.
• Working with file formats such as Word documents, PowerPoint slides, Excel workbooks and sheets, Adobe FrameMaker books and chapters, PDFs, DITA XML, JSON files, as well as rasterized and vector image formats.
• The candidate must have existing experience creating and defining collaterals (documentation).
• Willing to use and train users in authoring tools.
• Must have a strong grasp of English writing standards such as Microsoft and Chicago Style Guides.
• Advanced English level.