Proposal Technical Writer
Job Description
You will be responsible for writing clear, easy-to-understand manuals and guides for customers to use when receiving their product. The technical writing team uses relevant software programs, engineering drawings, and knowledge from the project team to create these manuals.
Technical writers must understand grammatical conventions and write in a clear and fluent manner. Technical writers should be highly self-motivated and autonomous workers. Technical writers must be excellent researchers so they can accurately explain their topic to the reader. This will require the ability to learn new technologies, read drawings, and write technical information in clear and concise language.
You will work closely with the project team, so strong communication skills are a must.
Core Responsibilities and Tasks
- Write installation, operation, and maintenance manuals
- Maintain company style and brand standards within the document
- Review documents for errors in spelling, punctuation, formatting, accuracy, etc.
- Communicate with project team members
- Upload and edit documents using relevant computer programs
- Assist in meeting project/customer requirements
- Customer satisfaction
- Bachelor’s degree in related field—engineering, technical writing, communications, etc.
Required
- Candid and timely communication
- Strong writing skills
- Ability to learn quickly and frequently
- Proficient in Microsoft Office—Word, Outlook, Teams
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Problem-solving skills
- Professional communication skills—emails, phone calls, IMs
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to type quickly and accurately
- Ability to regularly learn and adapt to new technologies
- Ability to read engineering drawings
- Ability to create and edit PDFs
- Experience with InDesign
- Experience using SAP
- Experience with Vault Pro
- Previous technical writing experience
- Previous engineering experience
- Previous document design experience
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Meet Your Recruiter
Lynn Danen
Lead Senior Recruiter
Lynn, a Certified Diversity & Inclusion Recruiter, joined Corps Team in March of 2011. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Northern Kentucky University. Lynn has over 18 years of Recruiting and HR experience, and finds great fulfillment in partnering with hiring managers to help them find the best candidate for their hiring needs. Partnering with employers in a wide range of industries, Lynn’s recruiting expertise includes human resources and total rewards, accounting and finance, marketing, business development, supply chain, customer support, business operations, and administrative roles. However, she has also successfully met business needs by managing recruitment processes outside of her wheelhouse, facing these challenges with excitement and determination.