Senior Technical Author in Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Chippenham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom |
Salary not specified |
Permanent
Senior Technical Author
Day Rate: £ Dependant on experience
Location: Chippenham
Duration: 3 months
My client is currently looking for a Senior Technical Author to come aboard and generate technical documentation to support their Rail Automation products, systems and contracts in accordance with the Technical Publications Group (TPG) Procedures and Standards.
Key Duties
- Prepare and produce manuals and other documentation to the required standard and within set timescales and budgets.
- Determine types of manuals required.
- Determine document's readership and purpose.
- Obtain source information by: liaison with engineers, research specifications, drawings and internet.
- Source or produce technical illustrations using department's drawing and graphical software packages and digital photography.
- Team working with other authors.
- Report and record progress and maintain relevant records as required by TPG standards.
- Undertake any other work as directed by the TPG Team Leader.
- Keep TPG Team Leader informed of work in progress.
Requirements
- Excellent standard of written English.
- Competent with Adobe Frame maker, Adobe Acrobat Pro, MS
- Office, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop.
- Minimum of two years working in an authoring role.
- Good communications skills (verbal and written).
- Flexible attitude.
- Able to understand engineering drawings (mechanical and electrical).
- Quality Control awareness.
- Broad engineering-based background.
Desirable
- Technical Author qualification and/or Membership of ISTC.
- Railway engineering background.
We look forward to hearing from you.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced individual but there will be a lot of competition for this position so if you are interested or know someone that is (we do run a referral scheme), please don't hesitate to send me your CV or call me on <phone number removed>
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