Associate Technical Writer
Binghamton, NY - USA
Job Summary
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 work-life 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
Launch Your Career at CAE Bring Clarity to MissionReady Training
Kickstart your career at CAE where youll help transform complex engineering concepts into clear accurate and professional documentation that supports world-class training systems. As an Associate Technical Writer youll collaborate with engineers authors and quality teams to refine technical content ensure consistency and publish materials that meet strict standards for clarity accuracy and visual effectiveness. Youll gain handson experience editing and developing documentation designing graphics and layouts and using industrystandard publishing tools to prepare content for releaseall while contributing to products that help pilots and maintainers perform at their best.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
What Youll Do:
- Write edit and proofread clear accurate technical documentation.
- Translate complex technical concepts into easytounderstand text and visuals.
- Apply DoD and industry style standards to ensure consistency and compliance.
- Use publishing tools (Microsoft Office Acrobat FrameMaker Photoshop Quicksilver) to create and update materials.
- Organize content manage document structures and support configurationmanagement workflows.
- Collaborate with engineers authors and QA to verify accuracy and meet deadlines.
Qualifications and Education Requirements
What You Bring:
- Bachelors degree in English Journalism Communications or a related field.
- Strong writing editing proofreading and pagelayout skills with sharp attention to detail.
- Solid computer skills and comfort with Microsoft Office; experience with publishing or multimedia tools is a plus.
- Ability to manage deadlines stay organized and work effectively within a structured process.
- Ability to obtain/maintain a DoD Secret clearance and Special Program Access; U.S. citizenship required.
- Willingness to support occasional overtime shift work weekend work and CONUS travel.
- Due to U.S. Government contract requirements only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
Preferred Skills
- Ability to understand technical subject matter and convert it into clear accessible documentation.
- Familiarity with style guides DoD standards and structured authoring practices.
- Knowledge of directory structures configuration management and documentation workflows.
- Experience with HTML XML or other webauthoring tools is helpful.
- Optional additional coursework in desktop publishing multimedia production or online authoring tools.
- Familiarity with tools like GitHub/GitLab Jenkins or Atlassian (school or project experience counts!).
Why Youll Love Working at CAE:
- Your efforts will help real pilots train safely for realworld missions.
- Youll join a global leader with 75 years of breaking new ground in simulation and immersive training.
- Youll work in an environment where earlycareer voices matteryour ideas fuel nextgen training systems.
- Youll grow alongside a team who is passionate about mentoring and helping you build your career.
Why Binghamton
Binghamton is an ideal launchpad for earlycareer engineers affordable friendly close to Binghamton University and surrounded by outdoor adventure. Its a community where you can build your career and your life.
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 need-to-know. 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
- Duties performed in an office environment and manufacturing facility.
- Must be able to work overtime on and off-shifts as required.
- The employee is on call 24x7 for the resolution of problems and issues.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Must be able to perform normal office duties ( for long periods at a desk)
- Must be able to travel CONUS/OCONUS via car and airplane
- Must be able to climb stairs to enter and exit a simulator
Salary Range: $86900.00-$96100.00
The actual compensation rate is subject to the evaluation of the following factors (but not limited to): the candidates work experience qualifications skills internal equity and market.
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 any protected 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 need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at
About CAE
At CAE our mission is clear: to help make the world a safer place. For nearly 80 years weve driven innovation in simulation training and mission readiness to support critical operations worldwide. By leveraging advanced technologies we empower our customers to operate smarter faster and more sustainably. Join a purpose-driven organization where bold ideas are encouraged collaboration drives progress and your growth fuels our shared success.
Position Type
RegularEqual 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 you need assistance to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability please contact us at .
Data Privacy
As part of our process we may use AIsupported tools to help review applications with human decisionmaking at every step. CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. With nearly 5,000 employees, CAE USA Inc. is the largest segment within CAE's Defense and Security business unit. The organization le ... View more