Technical Writer
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Gentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions. The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Working with some of the world’s biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences, and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities. Our Values and Culture Colleagues at Gentrack are one big team, working together to drive efficiency in two of the planet’s most precious resources, energy, and water. We are passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference. Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners, shareholders, and each other. Our core values are:
- Respect for the planet
- Respect for our customers
- Respect for each other
- Produce clear written communications, demonstrating excellence in both content and communication with internal teams.
- Share knowledge proactively within your immediate team and across the Product Development organization, acting as a bridge between technical teams and end-users for effective communication.
- Apply knowledge of established content authoring best practices to achieve excellence in the production of technical documents.
- Innovate and proactively contribute to continuous improvement in content development for Gentrack’s products, and for improved methodologies.
- Focus on the audience in all aspects of content design, ensuring a logical layout, accuracy, completeness, and visual effectiveness.
- Experience in technical writing best practices ideally with 2+ years as a Technical Writer or in a related role.
- Experience documenting enterprise-level software products.
- Experience using help authoring tools and other information management systems such as Confluence.
- Confidence to engage with content owners across all business roles to acquire source material for documentation.
- Comfortable and confident to work in the open, sharing your work product at all stages of drafting and refinement.
- Contribute to continuous improvement in practices leading to effectiveness, efficiency, and quality for content development.
- Positive and can-do attitude. Applying sound judgment, and determination to achieve with a sense of urgency when that’s required.
- Commitment to strive for a high professional standard in your work, reinforcing Gentrack’s brand and leadership position in the industry.
- Effective relationship management, interpersonal skills, and an open-minded consultative approach.
- Ability to give and receive positive and constructive feedback and creatively solve problems.
- Personal growth – in leadership, commercial acumen, and technical excellence
- To be part of a global, winning high growth organization – with a career path to match
- A vibrant culture full of people passionate about transformation and making a difference - with a one team, collaborative ethos
- A competitive reward package that truly awards our top talent
- A chance to make a true impact on society and the planet
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