What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Writer 2 position at COLE ENGINEERING SERVICES INC?
Job Summary: Candidate should have a foundation in writing technical documentation and manuals and be comfortable interacting with software engineers, development teams, customers, and users. The technical writer should have the ability to design and layout graphical product overviews and related marketing material.
Essential Job Functions:
- Research, develop and write user focused and maintainer focused technical documentation and training materials for military and commercial systems.
- Edit technical publications to meet CDRL requirements
- Learn and understand the technical design of the system well enough to be effective at transforming input from developers and engineers into written and graphical documents that are understandable by users and customers
- Support and develop training materials for software centric IT systems
Required Skills:
- Minimum 1 year exposure to Agile software development lifecycles
- Customer focused with strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand high level IT and software concepts
- Ability to communicate with development teams, engineers, technicians, training teams and customer personnel.
- Ability to ask questions and listen to the answers
- Ability to conduct peer reviews of documentation and solicit and incorporate feedback
- Ability and drive to complete assignments on schedule
- Write using clear and concise language using proper English in a format understandable to the target audience (Users and Maintainers)
- Ability to create hardware or software documentation from start to finish, including manual formatting, indexing, creation of all text, illustrations, block diagrams, theory of operations, power point presentations, procedures, etc.
- Ability to create user-focused training materials and courseware
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications to include Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio.
Required Education/Experience: Bachelor of Science, with a concentration in Information Systems, Communications or Engineering preferred. Minimum 3 years of experience in technical writing.
Other Requirements:
Please note that pursuant to a government contract, this specific position requires U. S. Citizenship status with ability to obtain a SECRET to TOP SECRET security clearance. Security Clearance requirements will be specified in the Government's Task Order.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. The above is intended to describe the general contents of and requirements for the performance of this job.
Cole Engineering Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, marital status, disability, genetic information, veteran status, membership in an employee organization, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state, or local laws.
