My client is responsible for the biggest rail construction project in Europe, helping to improve London's commuter infrastructure.

Due to an increase in project works they require a Technical Author (Operations & Maintenance Manuals) to join them on an initial short term contract.

As the Techincal Author you will be required to help produce Operations & Maintenance Manuals (O&Ms) from information provided from various contractors with the supply chain. You will also be required to review O&Ms provided by contractors and provide constructive feedback and/or revise the manuals as required.

This role will predominantly be site based,

Principal Accountabilities

• Support and facilitate the delivery of the Operations & Maintenance Manuals in line with the Employer’s information requirements, specifications and handover of all formally released/issued O&M deliverables.
• Produce O&M manuals and revise these manuals to satisfactory level by addressing all comments from the Team and IMs.
• Identify concerns and possible solutions to the O&M Delivery Lead, participate in meetings with reviewers to agree on resolutions and liaise with Field Assurance Engineers, designers, and construction team when necessary to resolve issues.
• Ensure that O&M manuals authored reference Asset Database and reflect the as built conditions.
• Make sure that all technical information including Health and Safety information, hazard assessment, spares and equipment, warranty, drawings, certification, legacy design etc. are presented in a consistent manner.
• Liaise with the Asset Data team to identify and resolve any non-conformances with the asset data to get the asset data referenced correctly in O&Ms.
• Peer-review O&M manuals produced by others to ensure that quality requirements are met.
• Understand IMs' needs for pre-handover deliverables regarding O&Ms
• Be a first point of contact to the Contractors for O&M queries, requests and educating them in the necessary requirements for compliance with the provided templates.
• Provide data as requested for progress/KPI reporting.

Person Specification

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline (Mechanical, Electrical, Public Health, Premises, Civil or Structural) is highly desirable.
• Proven and practical experience of technical authoring of O&Ms in a large organisation or a large multi-disciplined project, with multiple contracts and stakeholders’ interests.
• Good knowledge of Asset Data and data management systems and process within engineering and construction organizations
• Competent and comfortable processing large volumes of data following predefined processes and methodologies
• Experience in the delivery of railway station mechanical, electrical and public health (MEP) systems and detailed knowledge of the O&M manual writing.
• Knowledge of LU, RfL and/or NR environment and relevant processes and procedures. A good understanding of Assurance in a rail environment is desirable (e.g. LU Standard S1538).
• Proactive management - actively chasing people to get actions closed out and to supply requirements.
• Team player with positive “can do” attitude.
• Good experience of using typical MS office computer applications, such as MS Word, Excel, Office & Outlook.
• Excellent communication, especially technical writing skills, interpersonal skills who can liaise with staff within the business, Contractor teams and 3rd Party Organisations.
• Able to work collaboratively to achieve common goals across different organisations.
• Ability to implement actions and tasks within a project team in a matrix organization.
• Ability and determination to devise and follow procedures and challenge others to do so rigorously.
• Analytical skills and ability to identify and present key messages and risks arising from that analysis.

If you have carried out this function in a Crossrail focused environment and this opportunity sounds like the position for you, then please get in touch or apply today. A full job description is available upon request,

Please note due to my client being in the public sector, this role falls inside of IR35.

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