Principal Technical Author

at  BAE Systems

Job title: Principal Technical Author
Location: New Malden, Broad Oak – Portsmouth, Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £65,000 (depending on skills and experience)

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Experience within a Technical Author role with working knowledge of S1000D Standards
• Ability to write/review clear and concise system/equipment descriptions and maintenance procedures
• Ability to recognise and manage safety aspects of maintaining a hardware system

Desirable:

• Knowledge of using tools such as:
• Common Source Database & Editing tools (CSDB – e.g. EAGLE Publishing System, FrameMaker)
• IETP production/viewing tools (e.g. trilogiBuild/trilogiView, Adobe Acrobat)
• Graphic Editing (e.g. Microsoft Visio, Photoshop, PTC IsoDraw)
• Configuration Management (e.g. SBM or Windchill) & Responsible Document Management (e.g. SharePoint)
• General Office tools (e.g., MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint)
• Management of a small team

• The day-to-day team management and co-ordination of assigned work within the Technical Documentation Team
• Production and Maintenance of Data Modules (DMs) that provide both descriptive and procedural information within the System Handbooks/Technical Documentation
• Working with S1000D standard coded data modules
• Ability to manage multiple projects, including reporting and managing budgets, expectations and workload
• Act as point of contact with internal/external customers and suppliers with respect to Technical Publications content and associated toolsets
• Ability to resolve complex problems and issues with regard to Handbook content and related material
• Grow knowledge and relationship between the engineering development teams and support teams