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Technical Author
Job Posted: an hour ago
Salary: £ Competitive
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Oxshott
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Technical Author
6-month contract
Christchurch – Dorset (3 days a week onsite, 2 remote)
Certain Advantage are hiring for a Technical Author. We’re working with a global engineering and professional-services company that provides technology, infrastructure, defence, and mission-support solutions for governments and industries worldwide.
Role Overview:
The role will be working as part of a small technical documentation team on a wide-area military communications system. The role requires the production, amendment, and management of technical documentation outputs to support the development, operation, and maintenance of the system.
Responsibilities
Request, gather and assess the required source logistic information from equipment suppliers to inform the required technical publications.
Undertake Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) on electronic computing and communication systems including an array of radios and masts.
Author Data modules from the MTA and other publications including operating procedures and training material. This will include technical drawings.
Liaise with Training Team to provide assistance with training content.
Assist in the creation and maintenance of the Data Modules Requirements List
Author from new and update the full suite of descriptive, procedural and IPD data modules to populate the Common Source Database (CSDB).
Proofread and review Data Modules produced by other team members, using the CSDB workflow.
Produce new IETPs using trilogi software for delivery to the customer.
General assistance with other ILS and LSA Tasks
The individual:
Technical Publications specifications e.g. S1000D 4.1, Def Stan 00-601
Data Module authoring to an S1000D 4.1 standard.
Standard Numbering Systems
Population and maintenance of a Data Module Requirements List (DMRL)
Technical authoring processes and techniques using industry proprietary software tools preferably through an EAGLE LSAR and EAGLE Publishing System to construct a comprehensive CSDB.
Knowledge and experience of XML Data Module technical authoring using EAGLE xml editor or industry equivalent.
Technical Publications/IETP/CSDB Configuration Management processes
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