Technical Author - Stevenage, United Kingdom - Mane Contract Services Limited

Mane Contract Services Limited

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Stevenage, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Technical Author

Salary:
Up to £ £43,000

Location:
Stevenage, Bristol or Bolton

Benefits:

Bonus of up to £2,500
Pension contribution of up to 14%
Annual salary review
Paid overtime
Up to 15 days flexi leave
25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking
Excellent career progression and development opportunities

About the opportunity:

Our client is an award-winning company; committed to providing an inclusive working environment where our employees can be themselves and everyone has equal opportunity to reach their full potential.

They value and know that a diverse community makes for greater innovation and brings a breadth of skills, experience and perspectives.

You will be placed at the forefront of engineering documentation where they will work closely with a number of enthusiastic and multi-disciplined internal and international teams across industry and government groups.

Requirements:

Authoring specialists to support and develop complex engineering descriptive and procedural documentation.
Experience in technical authoring is essential. Use in particular of SGML is required but also the ability to adapt to other formats of authorship is desirable.
You will need to be familiar in the use of S1000D based authoring tools, be aware of BREX (Business Rules Exchange) use and Guidance Documents, a CSDB (Common Source Data Base) environment and the associated reports.
You need to be able to work with a variety of different types of people and will maintain a willing, helpful attitude and a calm professional manner.
Provide technical expertise in ensuring design teams have a clear understanding of the publication development, production and upkeep process.
You may be required to be involved in demonstration or process proving activities at an alternative site or the Customer's location, in the UK or overseas.
Experience and a working knowledge of the military environment for operation and maintenance technical publications is preferable but not essential.
Liaise with product suppliers in support of technical publication technologies whilst maintaining personal and technical reports, records etc. of all technical publication activities to a high standard.
Willingness to travel within the UK and overseas.