Technical Author

3 weeks ago


Crawley, United Kingdom Morson Talent Full time

**Technical Author - Contract**

Morson are exclusively recruiting for a Technical Author / Document support profesional for a leading international defence client. The role is based in Crawley, Wes Sussex. Hybrid working (home/site split negotaible).

**Pay rates**:
PAYE - £31.52 per hour plus £3.80 holiday pay rising to 5.07 holiday pay after 12 weeks.

Umbrella - £43.10 Umbrella (Please enquire)
**Primary Purpose of the Role**:
To work within a Through Life Support Engineering (TLSE) team and undertake Technical Publications / Authoring activities to customers requirements within own competence without day to day guidance or supervision in a professional manner, in accordance withrelevant specifications, standards and documentation processes.
Principal Relationships:
**Key Responsibilities and Tasks**:

- Make Technical Publications/Authoring decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
- Fulfil the operating, maintenance and support requirements agreed with the customer. The information must be clearly and unambiguously presented, in a manner appropriate to the level of skill, experience and technical understanding of the users and maintainersof the equipment. It thus contributes to the customer’s ultimate objective of improving the success rate of maintenance, and reducing the lifecycle cost of ownership of equipment.
- Close liaison with all aspects of engineering through the interaction with engineering personnel / interrogation of contributory engineering database. It will involve the research and origination of new and amended textual data for a wide range of equipmentand maintenance activities.
- Compile data, to a variety of national / international /civil / military specifications, and produce physical/electronic deliverables.
- Provide help and direction to less experienced team members.
- Manage own elements of Technical Publications /Authoring work package.
- Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.
- Set targets for and manage own development with line manager. Seek & share good practice & knowledge to continuously improve own practices.
**Skills**
Essential
- Technical Authoring
- Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft office packages/Authoring tools
- Excellent standard of written and spoken English
- Engineering knowledge/experience
- Good understanding of engineering standards and processes.
- Ability to turn technical information into easily understood text
Desirable
- Basic Logistic Support Analysis (LSA)
- Basic Technical Illustration
- **Experience**:
Essential
- Engineering Product Lifecycle
- Technical Authoring in an engineering environment
- Writing in a structured environment (ieeg XML to S1000D, DITA)
- Desirable
- Processing of Unsatisfactory Feature Reports (MOD Form 765) an advantage
- Understanding of Unmanned Air Systems an advantage
- Simplified Technical English
- Support to Bids
- Estimating Skills
- Risk and Opportunity Management
- Work Package Management


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