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About This Role
Who We Are:
CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety efficiency and readiness.
CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAEs Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness.
CAE Values: Empowerment Innovation Excellence Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed.
What We Have to Offer:
Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes worklife balance
A work environment where all employees are valued respected and safe
Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver take initiatives and make decisions
Recognition professional development advancement and having fun!
Summary
Technical Writer responsibility is to research and translate technical information into operational and maintenance manuals and/or webbased documents for nontechnical and technical users
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Understand technical concepts of the program and translate technical information into understandable text and graphics.
Work closely with hardware engineering to write operational and maintenance manuals.
Develop technical manuals to meet customer format requirements.
Communicate with company personnel/customer on progress of technical manual development.
Work closely with technical publications to develop trainthetrainer courseware.
Responsible for conducting structured classroom instruction and simulator OntheJob Training (OJT) for all aspects of operation and maintenance of the simulator and its associated equipment.
Develop all training materials using inhouse/vendor provided documentation
Qualifications and Education Requirements
3 years experience as a technical writer or instructor
Bachelors degree in Technical Writing English Communications a plus.
Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Preferred Skills
Ability to read/understand electrical and mechanical drawings parts lists and system indices a plus.
Experience authoring/editing technical manuals for the military.
Familiar with publications lifecycle from gathering sources to writing outlines to delivering the final product.
Excellent verbal and written (writing editing proofreading and page composition) communications skills
PTC Arbortext Editor experience a plus.
Familiarity with hardware CAD tools a plus.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite Word .
Experience with Adobe suite a plus.
Experience within the operation and maintenance of fullflight simulators preferable.
Able to travel.
Must be able to obtain a Security Clearance.
Security Responsibilities
Must complywith all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials in any form. Shall not divulge any information or afford access to other employees not having a needtoknow. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.
Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones photocopiers filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands
Must be able to work in an office environment at a cube desk for minimum forty hours per week
May occasionally have to go to closed rooms high bay or other manufacturing areas to see the work that needs to be performed
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
CAE USA Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to anyprotected characteristic including disability and protected veteran status as defined under federal state or local laws.
Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you needassistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us
Position Type
RegularCAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Equal Opportunity Employer
CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race color national origin age religion sex disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local CAE everyone is welcome to contribute to our success. Applicants needing reasonable accommodations should contact their recruiter at any point in the recruitment process. If you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at .
Employment Type
Full-Time
