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Tad PGS

Technical Writing Supervisor Job at Tad PGS in Minneapolis

Tad PGS, Minneapolis, MN, US, 55400

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We have an outstanding career opportunity for aTechnical Writing Supervisorto join a leading Company located in theMinneapolis, MNsurrounding area.

Salary: $100,000 - $115,000

Responsibilities :

  • Request Management

  • Oversee the end-to-end prioritization and management of technical documentation projects, ensuring alignment with Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Services, and Content Operations objectives.

  • Determine priorities based on business value and urgent needs.

  • Workload Planning and Sequencing

  • Assess and manage the technical writing team's capacity.

  • Sequence projects thoughtfully to prevent team overload.

  • Negotiate deadlines with requesters and validate achievability with team members.

  • Process and Quality Improvement

  • Continuously seek process efficiencies and productivity gains. Work to standardize and simplify where possible.

  • Promote and uphold standards for high-quality documentation.

  • Decisive when addressing trade-offs between schedule, quality, and scope.

  • Team Collaboration and Support

  • Coordinate with various teams to understand their documentation needs.

  • Ensure writers have the required tools, resources, and knowledge.

  • Hold regular one-on-ones with team members to discuss active work, clear roadblocks, and encourage personal development.

  • Lead team meetings, preparing agenda and focused topics as needed.

  • Promote the use of best practices within the team.

  • Encourage collaboration across teams and strengthen connections with key stakeholders.

  • Team Development and Culture

  • Act as an ambassador for team culture (LCI: culture, continuous improvement, inclusion).

  • Support career growth for team members, ensuring alignment with individual development goals.

  • Advocate equally for the team and the customer, ensuring customer needs are prioritized in documentation.

  • Foster open, honest, and trustworthy communication.

Basic Hiring Criteria :

  • Bachelor's degree in communications, business, engineering, or other related fields.

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical environment, preferably with mechanical and electrical systems.

  • Minimum 3 years of experience leading or mentoring teams.

  • Proactive, with the ability to drive a sense of urgency appropriately.

  • Outcome-focused and customer-centric.

  • Strong, clear, transparent communication skills; checks for understanding.

  • Able to motivate and energize the team, promoting positivity and continuous improvement.

  • Approachable and trustworthy leader, fostering open communication.

  • Effective cross-functional collaborator, comfortable working with multiple teams.

  • Experienced in negotiating and coordinating deadlines and workload.

  • Ability to learn new tools/software and understand how they interact with other systems.

Desired Qualifications :

  • Experience with creating and managing technical content.

  • Understanding of technical writing authoring tools and structured authoring.

  • Understanding of component content management systems (CCMS).

  • Understanding of content strategy.

Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

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  • The California Fair Chance Act

  • Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

  • Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

  • San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance