Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

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Specialist, technical writer provides support to various engineering-based projects within an office environment; may be required to complete tasks in production areas.

Specialist, Technical Writer Duties & Responsibilities

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Ensures written content meets all regulatory requirements and meets the Bank’s Model Validation teams’ documentation standards other internal policies, procedures, and best practices
Engage with necessary stakeholders to document procedures, policies, and reports in a standard, approved format
Ability to confidently and professionally meet with client leadership teams in an effort to accurately document job-specific activities
Maintain a thorough knowledge of departmental policies, procedures, and contacts
Ability to build strong relationships with key staff members and stakeholders
Ensure timely and appropriate communication occurs with all client stakeholders
Extensive self-study, training and testing are required
Utilize a variety of tools including web portals, inline documentation, pdf documents, product walkthroughs
Gathers, analyzes, translates and composes technical information into clear, readable on-line information pages and documents to be used by technical and non-technical personnel
Manage online content (Wiki/Confluence) for information pages

Specialist, Technical Writer Qualifications

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Licensing or Certifications for Specialist, Technical Writer

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Education for Specialist, Technical Writer

Typically a job would require a certain level of education.

Employers hiring for the specialist, technical writer job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Technical, Writing, English, Communications, Engineering, Education, Journalism, Business, Computer Science, Science

Skills for Specialist, Technical Writer

Desired skills for specialist, technical writer include:

Excel
Outlook
Power Point
Content management will be an advantage
FLARE
Financial markets will be an advantage
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Microsoft Office
Federal/Government contracting experience helpful
HR activities

Desired experience for specialist, technical writer includes:

Working knowledge of document management systems, such as Agile, Documentum, Insight Publishing and Tracking, or others
Prior work experience in a regulated environment
Process improvement methodology expertise
Ability to stay flexible with changing priorities
Communicate with technical subject matter experts at all levels of leadership to gather new and updated content for publication
Maintain and revalidate existing content, format articles, and work with multiple resources to create and merge new content into existing templates

Specialist, Technical Writer Examples

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Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of specialist, technical writer. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for specialist, technical writer
  • Prepare daily report(s) on status of content
  • Works with web-based content, designing, advising on formatting, for web pages that should be added
  • Create and update Technical Manuals using Arbortext Editor software
  • Perform formatting, editing, proofreading, and quality control functions to produce technical publications in a deadline-driven environment for the Phalanx, SeaRAM and Land-based Phalanx Weapon System (LPWS) in support of the Navy and Army customers
  • Responsible for working closely with engineers to develop or edit graphics for technical publications, graphics for military logistics technical publications and interact closely with co-workers, subject matter experts, and customers to understand and meet product expectations
  • Manage multiple deadlines and priorities within specified time frames
  • Remove and Install mechanical parts on the LPWS in order to verify and validate work packages
  • Online information
  • Support the ongoing development of a library of individual chemical toxicological risk summaries to support medical device risk evaluations
  • Candidate shall edit, modify and maintain existing documentation
Qualifications for specialist, technical writer
  • Experience in roles requiring high level of attention to detail and ensuring accuracy of data
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 0+ year’s related experience or a Master’s degree and one year of experience
  • Possess technical understanding of federal engineering and technical services contracting business preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree with three years’ experience in Business Management OR Associates Degree equivalent with six years’ experience in technical writing
  • Three years’ experience working in Risk Management programs (Antiterrorism/DCIP)
  • Ten years’ experience as assigned to, attached, employed by, or contracted by USSOCOM or one of its subordinate organizations
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Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a specialist, technical writer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for specialist, technical writer
  • Shall track deliverable schedules, clearances, and acceptances
  • Will provide continuous expertise on innovative Web technologies, and health communication science
  • Complete the Backup Profile
  • Build the profile for each team, the job description, Org chart, Job Descriptions, Known issues, Management Oversight, vendors, processes, tools, products, standards, best practices, hand offs, hands down, audit artifacts, platforms, what controls do we adhere to, nist, Consolidate our control executions if possible
  • Assist in the tracking the S#’s to NIST alignment
  • Responsible for developing, writing, and editing cyber security related technical documentation such as standard operating procedures, technical manuals, user manuals, and technical orders, generally using standard office automation products *
  • May include data manipulation, storage, and retrieval in database applications, development of database applications
  • Review and edit documents for grammar, flow, organization, and design
  • Duties may include requirements development, documentation development, configuration identification, configuration control, configuration accounting and/or verification
  • Responsible for reporting on and assisting with audits for all documentation, compliance and validation tasks within CC department
Qualifications for specialist, technical writer
  • Mastery of content development and publishing tools such as Word, Acrobat, and others
  • Experience performing editing and proofreading tasks
  • Ability to work well and collaborate effectively under pressure in a dynamic environment
  • Three years’ experience preparing written products for senior leader (general officer/flag officer/senior executive service level) use
  • Bachelor's degree is required, preferably in Communications, English, or a technical field
  • Experience developing technical documentation from scratch (vs
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Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of specialist, technical writer. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for specialist, technical writer
  • Writes, edits and maintains programmatic materials to assist in the delivery of training
  • Documents and relays to program staff changes to the system as detailed by the information technology group
  • Supports the Compliance Department in the coordination of follow-up and resolution of compliance related issues and activities including audits, compliance reporting, HIPAA incident reporting
  • Resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative practical ways
  • Provides back-up assistance to the Training Specialist for tasks which may include review of training materials, processing training requests, maintaining training library and facilitating trainings
  • Performs additional duties as necessary or assigned by the supervisor
  • Assign, oversee and schedule the work of the other technical writers on contract to ensure standardization of material and meet required deadlines
  • Assist in developing, writing, and editing material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures, and installation, operation, and maintenance of machinery and other equipment
  • Observe production, developmental, and experimental activities to document operating procedures and details
  • Interview production and engineering personnel and read journals, reports, and other material to become familiar with product technologies and production methods
Qualifications for specialist, technical writer
  • Demonstrated ability to research and evaluate new documentation tools and methods
  • Working in GLP environment is a plus
  • Ability to quickly learn, understand, and document technically complex product areas
  • Experience writing software documentation
  • Ability to set project goals and meet deadlines
  • Experience writing documentation for administrative users is desirable
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of specialist, technical writer. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for specialist, technical writer
  • When required, write material regarding work methods and procedures
  • When required, support test directors/engineers in the field
  • Creating English technical documentation of elements of the telecommunications network
  • Management of documents created and for the review of existing documents for linguistic correctness and compliance with internal requirements
  • Applying changes in documentation between projects
  • Annotating, correction of errors reported by testers or customer
  • Helping in solving the problems detected by the customer (2nd line support)
  • Designs and develops technical documentation based on user needs with an understanding of technical systems, application design and interpretation of technical requirements
  • Contributes technical requirements documentation to ensure thorough communication of business needs and technical changes that are being created or have been implemented
  • Accountable for quality and timeliness of product documentation as it relates to technical design and solution implementation as a development team member
Qualifications for specialist, technical writer
  • Must be competent in the technical aspects
  • Mastery of word processing, document layout and publishing principles, such as document template and style guide creation, application, and maintenance
  • Experience integrating instructional design
  • Experience with authoring in XML, markdown, html is a plus
  • Five years of experience in automotive technical writing required
  • Associate’s degree in Automotive Technology or Automotive Technical Certifications preferred
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Specialist, Technical Writer Job Description

Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a specialist, technical writer. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for specialist, technical writer
  • Partners with development team members to create solution design documents and related documents to aid in deliverables and build a library of product technical documents
  • Operates as a support team member to help as needed to resolve any production or development issue that relates to a department application or systems product by providing and interpreting related technical documents stored in the product library
  • Maintains the systems and applications product document libraries
  • Responsible for investigating and reporting on deviations to the manufacturing process
  • Work with relevant subject matter experts from all departments in the course of an investigation
  • Carry out technical write-up and functional review of investigations for non-conforming events
  • Organize existing documents, identify documentation holes, and spearhead efforts to fill them in
  • Work with learning strategist to design and develop product knowledge training documentation modules to be published both on and offline
  • File localization requests for Help Center content
  • Work with internal knowledge management team to confirm agent workflow and updates
Qualifications for specialist, technical writer
  • Minimum of 3-5 years work related experience required
  • Familiarity with cyber security concepts and nomenclature
  • Minimum 5 years' in Petrochemical Operations
  • Extensive experience in the Petrochemical Industry with emphasis on Pre-Commissioning, Commissioning, and Startup and Operations
  • Minimum 2 years technical writing, procedure writing experience
  • 10 years' in the Petrochemical Industry with Commissioning, Startup and Operations experience

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