Manager, Technical Writing & Training - ONSITE

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The Manager Technical Writing & Training Digital Pathology for Leica Biosystems leads a small team of technical writers and trainers who create accurate compliant documentation and deliver effective learning programs for our Digital Pathology portfolio. Focused on our internal and external customer needs the role ensures that every user guide service manual e-learning module and classroom course enables safe efficient installation operation and support of our products. The position owns the global documentation pipeline and training curricula in Digital Pathology partnering closely with R&D Quality Regulatory commercial Service & Support and other stakeholders to ensure usability and serviceability requirements throughout the product lifecycle and to keep all materials current with regulatory and business demands.

This position reports to the Director Global Support & Training and is part of the Digital Pathology Business Unit located in Vista CA USA and will be ONSITE five days a week..

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide leadership and day-to-day direction for the Technical Writing & Training team including recruiting coaching and developing associates to align skills capacity and succession plans with business needs.
• Drive continuous improvement of documentation and training workflows including authoring review localization translation release and lifecycle maintenance while prioritizing activities by business and regulatory impact to ensure program quality delivery and audit readiness
• Establish governance processes and KPIs (cycle-time right-first-time quality on-time delivery) that keep manuals service guides e-learning and classroom content current to both our product specifications and with FDA EU MDR/IVDR and ISO 13485 requirements.
• Own training compliance for our commercial customer-facing service and support organization to ensure required trainings are completed on time in our LMS.
• Provide resources and support to product development projects according to the priorities of the Digital Pathology product roadmap. This includes project swim lanes responsible for technical training material and product technical documentation (both service and customer-facing documentation).

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelors degree in an engineering or scientific discipline
• 5 years of experience in a related field such as technical writing or training related to medical devices or life science instruments with complex software and network requirements.
• 3 years of people leadership experience such as managing mentoring training.
• Knowledge of medical device environments and regulations such as FDA IVDR ISO 13485 etc.

Travel Requirements:

• This position requires up to 10% flying and/or driving travel which includes overnight stays. Travel will primarily be domestic but may occasionally be international.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Supporting or training on digital pathology or imaging systems.
• Working in a Content Management System such as MadCap Flare.
• Working in a Learning Management System such as Cornerstone On-Demand.

Leica Biosystems a Danaher operating company offers a broad array of comprehensive competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether its a health care program or paid time off our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

The annual salary range for this role is$150000.00-$165000.00. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

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