Technical Author

1 month ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Mettler Toledo Full time

About Mettler Toledo

METTLER TOLEDO is a leading global supplier of precision instruments and services. We are recognized as an innovation leader and our solutions are critical in key R&D, quality control, and manufacturing processes for customers in a wide range of industries including life sciences, food, and chemicals. We operate throughout the world with a culture shaped by innovation and international flair.

Our Opening and Your Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include:

- Develop technical documentation and user manuals that comply with Mettler Toledo guidelines and templates.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, such as user manuals and operation manuals.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, R&D, and Service, to ensure accuracy and completeness of the documentation.
- Participate in documentation review and approval processes with cross-functional teams.
- Support the Product Management team with all aspects of technical authoring.
- Continually seek improvement opportunities and develop internal processes to support (cost, time to market, increased knowledge transfer, market coverage etc.)
- Maintain compliance requirements for technical documentation and user manuals.
- Manage and maintain documentation in accordance with ISO and MT corporate standards.
- Use ST4 Schema to organise and update technical content (fragments, tables, graphical images), along with preparing files for translation and creating bluebooks.
- Manage document version control within Schema and through ECRs, to ensure latest version is available to all parties and changes are logged.
- Manage translation process for documents with external translation company (extract Xml files from Schema, generate translation reports, pull together UI strings)
- Ensure new or amended documentation is distributed via SAP, Teamcenter, online, eDocs, internal network (Manuals Matrix).

What You Need to Succeed
- Proven experience developing a range of technical publications across a range of media.
- Experience of technical writing experience in the industry.
- Working knowledge and understanding of Content Management Systems.
- Experience developing multi-lingual documentation across a range of media.
- Effective management of translation in numerous languages.
- Proven project documentation, product specification, and technical writing skills.
- Experienced in producing technical documents for products comprising software, graphical HMI, electronics & electromechanical subsystems.
- Experience in using Schema or other content management systems would be beneficial.
- Self-Motivated.
- Excellent communication skills and an eye for detail.
- Passionate about quality documentation.
- Enthusiasm for learning new technologies and skills.

Our Offer to You
- Competitive Salary
- Employee bonus
- Flexible/ hybrid working
- 26 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Work for the market leader in Metal Detection.

Equal Opportunity Employment


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