The Ash Group
The Ash Group is hiring: Senior Technical Writer in Sterling Heights
The Ash Group, Sterling Heights, MI, United States, 48310
Overview
Senior Technical Recruiter/Account Manager at The Ash Group
Position: Sr Technical Writer
Location: Sterling Heights, MI (fully onsite)
Duration: 7 month contract
Description:
- Creates and revises complex technical documentation to support the marketing, operation, repair, and maintenance of company products.
- Ensures documents conform to company and government standards and specifications and language usage principles.
- Creates and revises technical documentation using state-of-the-art publishing software technology including product descriptions, detailed functional descriptions, operating procedures, fault isolation, maintenance and repair procedures, illustrated parts breakdown (IPB), miscellaneous reports, proposals, marketing literature, or other technical documentation pertaining to company products.
- Ensures compliance with customer requirements, government specifications, engineering standards, and language usage principles.
- Researches and consults with engineering staff on systems and equipment to create and revise technical documentation.
Required Skills / Qualifications
- Must have Defense Industry Experience.
- Must have Bachelor's Degree in a relevant technical discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, plus 5 additional years of relevant experience.
- Working knowledge of hydraulics, mechanics, electronics, and system operations to write technical documentation.
- Working knowledge of state-of-the-art publication/page production software and Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) functionality and development processes.
- Ability to understand complex engineering designs, analyze and interpret engineering drawings and terminology, and translate into understandable language for non-engineers.
- XML Authoring Tool Experience (e.g., Arbortext Epic Editor and Oxygen software).
- Adobe Acrobat Professional PDF Software – proficient for use of illustration markups; or use of a similar PDF (electronic) markup tool.
Additional job details
- Seniority: Mid-Senior level
- Employment type: Contract
- Job function: Writing/Editing
- Industries: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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