Technical Writer

Technical Writer

Job Description

Technical Writer

Onsite | Full-time | Steisslingen, Germany

We are looking for a Technical Writer to join our team full-time in our Steisslingen, Germany office. The successful candidate will produce high quality customer-facing documentation by following our internal quality management process for reviews, revisions, and publication. As part of a larger technical communications group, you will use single-sourcing methodologies to create digital, interactive, and print documentation.

Responsibilities:

• Draft, update, and/or release user, software, installation, and service manuals, FRU and upgrade procedures, quick start guides, operation method sheets, and spare parts lists in MadCap Flare XML editor.

• Maintain company documentation standards and write to the company style guide.

• Collaborate with engineers on subject-matter and attend design reviews.

• Use CAD models to investigate key functions of Brooks products and draft procedural steps.

• Collaborate weekly with other technical writers across the globe.

Qualifications:

• 2-3 years of technical writing experience, preferably in hardware documentation

• Bachelor’s degree in related field such as English, Journalism, or Technical Writing or a certificate and/or minor in IT or Professional Writing/Technical Communications or Technical Writing

• Experience with MadCap Flare and structured XML

• Able to understand target audiences with the ability to create and develop content in effective ways.

• Eagerness to interact with engineering models using Pro-Engineering, Solidworks, and Autodesk to help with the creation of documentation and training materials

• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally to other company offices to document off-site products when needed

• Willingness to pivot between multiple projects with effective project management skills

• Team oriented and a great collaborator within a medium sized writing group

• Experience with Microsoft Word

• Familiar with Adobe Creative Cloud (specifically Adobe Acrobat)

• Fluent in English and German

Not required, but useful skills:

• Smartsheet

• MadCap Lingo (for translations)

• Excel

Wenn Du aus technischen Gründen nicht in der Lage bist, eine Bewerbung auszufüllen oder auf eine Stellenausschreibung zu antworten, wende Dich bitte per E-Mail an [email protected], um Unterstützung zu erhalten.

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