Pyramid Consulting, Inc is hiring: Technical Writer in San Diego

Overview

Immediate need for a talented Technical Writer. This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in San Diego, CA (Remote).

Job ID: 25-86932

Pay Range: $40 - $45/hour. Employee benefits include health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities

• Create, edit, and maintain customer and internal facing technical documentation, including user manuals, installation guides, troubleshooting guides, and upgrade/downgrade instructions for various country regulatory submissions.
• Ensure all documentation meets regulatory requirements, industry standards, and company policies.
• Create illustrations, flow charts, diagrams, line art, and product photos for quality and technical documentation. Provide recommendations to engineers on optimizing engineering data expressed in graphs, illustrations, and tables to ensure clarity and consistency.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, clinical/medical affairs, marketing, customer support, and other departments to gather information and ensure accuracy and completeness of documentation; suggest changes to enhance readability, clarity, conciseness, and style. Collaborate with subject matter experts in the review and development of instructions-for-use (IFU) design specifications as part of the product’s quality documentation.
• Review and edit technical documents for clarity, accuracy, and compliance.
• Develop and implement documentation standards, best practices, and style guides to ensure consistency and quality.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of management and business units, maintaining flexibility in prioritizing deliverables to meet company goals.
• Stay current with industry trends, regulatory changes, and best practices in technical writing and medical device documentation.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior technical writers and other team members.
• Manage fast-moving documentation projects, including timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• Participate in, conduct, and drive cross-functional team meetings to provide input on documentation requirements and timelines.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience

• Technical Writer / Medical Writer / Documentation Specialist
• MadCap Flare / Adobe FrameMaker / Adobe InDesign / Adobe Illustrator / XML / DITA
• Medical devices or pharmaceuticals industry experience
• Experience in a regulated industry (medical devices or pharmaceuticals)
• Extensive experience with regulatory compliance processes and supporting regulatory requirements
• Collaborative ability with marketing, clinical, quality, and regulatory reviewers
• Five or more years writing and editing hardware/software user guides (print and online) and other technical product documentation
• Ability to manage delivery of prioritized tasks and work independently
• Strong information-gathering skills and initiative for documentation development
• Experience under compressed deadlines and with project changes
• Project management skills for multiple projects
• Familiarity with electro-mechanical concepts and software application usage
• Familiarity with ERP systems; SAP, Oracle, or similar is a plus
• Experience with VCS (Perforce, Subversion, TFS, or GitHub)
• Knowledge of photography and photo editing software (Adobe Photoshop)
• Proficiency in electronic and hard copy markup (Word with tracked changes, Acrobat, proofreading symbols)
• Knowledge of desktop publishing (MadCap Flare, FrameMaker, InDesign, Illustrator, XML, DITA) as applicable for technical documentation

Our client is a leading Healthcare Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Writing/Editing

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care

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