Specialist, Technical Writer

The Technical Writer's responsibilities include, but are not limited to: * Developing written content, technical illustrations, and photos as required for projects. * Obtaining technical reviews from content owners and ensuring the accuracy of revisions to provide customers with the highest quality technical materials. * Collaborating with business partners to develop and manage a technical documentation plan for each project outlining deliverables, due dates and launch requirements. * Arranging and managing all relationships including quality reviews as required; meeting project deliverables within established timelines to ensure an accurate delivery of technical publications to the customer. * Adhering to and applying styles and formats as outlined in the technical writing style guide. * Participating in continuous improvement of technical writing processes and systems (e.g. content management) to ensure quality, compliance, and reliability of technical publications. The successful candidate will meet the following qualifications: * Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Communications, English, or a technical field. Extensive experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. * 3 years or more experience as a technical writer is required. * Experience writing for an industrial/manufacturing company is required. * Strong communication skills, including writing, editing, and proofreading is required. * Experience writing operating procedures, technical manuals, and/or product-oriented documentation is required. * Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, Adobe suite products, and similar word processing and desktop publishing tools are preferred. * Knowledge of fonts and typefaces is required. * Ability to understand, interpret, and organize technical manuals and technical data are required. * Experience in content management and/or revision control systems is preferred. * Experience with print, web-based, and electronic delivery of documents is required. * Basic project management skills are preferred. * Database and internet-related communications and file transfer knowledge is preferred. * Strong computer skills and outstanding organizational ability. * Excellent verbal and written command of the language. * A personality that lends itself to leadership within a group and should be able to build and maintain relationships outside the training group.