Technical Author Electronic Warfare Capabilities 22476
Technical Author Electronic Warfare Capabilities 22476
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Job Description
Job Title Technical Author
Job Location Tewkesbury UK
Please note we operate a 65 onsite requirement across the month 3 days per week).
Job ID 22476
About this opportunity and L3Harris UK
From 11 UK sites our team of nearly 1000 people delivers unique capabilities across space air land sea and cyber for military security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.
L3Harris in Tewkesbury and Fleet form part of our ICI division. In the land domain our T7 and T4 multimission robots deliver nextgeneration remote capabilities and uncompromised performance. We design and manufacture worldleading land force protection systems cyber and electromagnetic activities (CEMA) electronic warfare (EW) and encryption capabilities. Our cyber capabilities provide an information advantage in the fields of kinetic conflict cyber warfare force protection and counterterrorism.
You will be instrumental in creating technical documentation which includes operation manuals repair and maintenance manuals assembly instructions setup guides and technical bulletins. Day to day you will deliver the publications in the specified format visit customer locations and attend meetings as required. Its imperative for all documents to conform to program standards and Data Item Description (DID) requirements if specified.
In this role you will have primary responsibility for authorship gather requirements from users/stakeholders and prepare user and program documentation and work closely with technical staff.
A few of our employee benefits are:
- Hybrid working where possible We operate a 65 onsite requirement across the month 3 days per week)
- Half day finish on a Friday
- 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays) increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
- Private medical insurance with optional family cover
- Pension scheme of up to 7 employer contribution
- Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
- Group income protection
- Flexible optin extras such as a health care cash plan dental insurance gym membership critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
- Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
What the role will involve
The responsibilities of your role will include the following:
- Write and edit technical and procedural documents including reference manuals and product manuals.
- Determine the type of publication that will best serve the project requirements.
- Meet with engineers programmers and project managers to learn about specific products or processes.
- Research product samples to fully understand product.
- Assess the audience needs for whom the technical and procedural documentation is intended; adjusts tone and technical terms used to meet those needs and to ensure understanding.
- Plan writing processes and sets timelines and deadlines.
- Create or work with graphic designers to create diagrams charts and other visual aids to assist readers in understanding a product or process.
- Gather feedback from customers designers and manufacturers to improve technical documents.
- Establish and communicate standards for information types structures and assembly so that content is organised logically with the enduser in mind.
- Provides cost and time estimates for creating technical documents.
What youll bring
The role requires the following experience and skills:
- Degree qualified with minimum of 2 years experience as a Technical Writer
- Experience effectively creating formatting and editing technical publications and proposals including writing editing and illustrating using MS Word SQL XML
- Experience working with engineers and program management to translate technical information into clear concise documentation.
- Must be an independent thinker capable of performing high quality work both independently and with a team in a fastmoving environment
- Excellent communication & interpersonal skills
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to present complex data in clear concise text
- Experience working within the Defence industry (preferred)
- Experience of AESPs (preferred)
Important to know
Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.
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Employment Type
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