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Technical Writer User Documentation (m/w/d)

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Mannheim

Vor Ort

EUR 45.000 - 75.000

Vollzeit

Vor 19 Tagen

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Zusammenfassung

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Technical Writer to join their innovative team in Mannheim. In this role, you'll create high-quality online help documentation, ensuring customers understand the functionality of advanced life science systems. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and contribute to meaningful projects that support scientific discoveries. If you have a passion for technical writing and a desire to make a real impact in the field of life sciences, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a company that values innovation and teamwork, and help shape the future of technology in healthcare.

Leistungen

Health Care Program
Paid Time Off
Competitive Benefit Programs

Qualifikationen

  • Experience in technical documentation and online-help is essential.
  • Excellent written and verbal skills in English and German are required.

Aufgaben

  • Create online help and prepare data for documentation.
  • Conduct research and gather product-specific information for documentation.

Kenntnisse

Technical Writing
Documentation
English Language Proficiency
German Language Proficiency

Ausbildung

Degree in Technical Writing
Specialized Training as a Technical Writer

Tools

MadCap Flare
HTML
XML
XSLT

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

Bring more to life.

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

Shape the Future with Us!

At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. With a culture rooted in customer focus, innovation, and teamwork, we lead the market in microscopy, imaging, and analysis, unveiling the invisible and empowering our customers to build a better, healthier world.

Joining Leica Microsystems means contributing to scientific discoveries and supporting surgeons in making critical decisions. Our advanced microscopes and AI-based image analysis solutions enable users to gain profound insights into development and engineering challenges. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

As a Technical Writer, you will be part of a global, cross-functional team, supporting the development of our latest innovations in the field of Life Science and Applied Solutions. You will coordinate and create product-specific online help in collaboration with various internal departments and external partners.

The goal is to provide our customers with comprehensive and high-quality online help to ensure their satisfaction and to support the success of their research.

Your main task is to help our customers understand the overall functionality of our systems, so that they can use them efficiently and safely.

This position reports to the Senior Manager Global Product Compliance and Technical User Documentation and is part of the Technical User Documentation located in Mannheim and Wetzlar. The role is an on-site position located in Mannheim or Wetzlar.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Create the online help, preparing data (text/graphics) and implementing it in the online help. Testing the created online help on demo devices/prototypes to verify quality and usability. Provision of the final localized online help in the required format.
  • Conduct cross-site research and information gathering in the departments to compile product-specific information for documentation purposes in the online help.
  • Coordinate timing and content with the stakeholders and departments involved in the development process.

The essential requirements of the job include:

  • Degree in technical writing or in the technical field with specialized training as a technical writer.
  • Couple of years of experience in the field of technical documentation and/or online-help.
  • Very good written and verbal skills in English and German.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: if applicable for role

  • Ability to travel 15%, overnight, within Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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

  • Knowledge in relevant software tools like MadCap Flare.
  • Programming and markup (HTML, XML, XSLT, etc.).

Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.

At Danaher, we value the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.

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