Work Flexibility: Hybrid
As the Technical Writer for Strykers Acute Care team you will play a critical role in delivering clear accurate and user-friendly documentation for both customers and internal this role you will develop and complete comprehensive instructions for use (IFU) operations and maintenance manuals service manuals and instruction sheetstransforming complex technical information into materials that support safe effective product use around the world.
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This role is hybrid in Portage MI with the expectation to come into the office Monday through Wednesday working remotely Thursday and Friday.
What You Will Do
- Create clear task-oriented technical information that meets user needs for domestic and international customers
- Incorporate graphical elements for instructional purposes and accurate interpretation
- Understand the new product development cycle product manual sustainment and publication process
- Develop working relationship with Regulatory Affairs Quality Engineering Technical Support R&D Clinical Affairs Compliance Engineering and Marketing to collaborate and gather content
- Represent Content Management as the subject matter expert for documentation analysis research and design in new product development meetings and review all engineering change orders for updates
- Lead manual review meetings throughout new product development and sustainment updates
- Meet new product development and sustainment project milestones to support project timelines
- Coordinate translations for operations and maintenance manuals instruction sheets and labels
- Review previous materials that may need revisions to align with updated product design regulatory requirements or compliance specifications
- Adhere to corporate quality system and regulatory requirements
- Review edit rewrite and consult on the work of others prepared within functional area other departments or by external sources to ensure quality of deliverables
What You Need
Required
- Bachelors degree in technical writing technical communication journalism business engineering or a related discipline
- 0 years of work experience
Preferred
- Technical writing experience
- Regulated industry experience
- Experience in designing and evaluating information using markup languages such as XML (DITA) and creating topic-based information
- Proficient in Adobe CS5 Arbortext Editor/Styler and Windchill
Travel Percentage: 10%
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