Technical Author

Acro Aircraft Seating Ltd; Crick; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension

Healthcare scheme

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Retail discounts

Training opportunities

1 pm finish on a Friday

Job summary

A leading company in the aerospace industry, Acro Aircraft Seating Ltd, is seeking a Technical Author responsible for creating and maintaining SOPs to uphold safety and quality in manufacturing processes. This role requires a proactive individual with strong technical writing skills and an eagerness to learn and improve operational documentation.

Qualifications

• Experience writing technical literature is essential.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office along with good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to articulate technical information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Collaborate with manufacturing engineers to ensure SOP effectiveness.
• Revise existing technical literature and manage change requests.

Skills

Good interpersonal skills

Positive attitude

Ability to communicate effectively

Aptitude for learning new techniques

Capable of multi-tasking

Proficient in Microsoft Office

Experience writing technical literature

Tools

Catia V5

Smarteam

Job description

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Acro Aircraft Seating is one of the UK’s leading and fastest growing manufacturers of passenger seats for commercial airlines around the world. We are an agile, innovative business at the forefront of disrupting the aerospace market. Through modern methodologies, lean techniques, inspired innovation, and passion to be the best, Acro is positioning itself to be the world’s leading aircraft seating supplier.

Collaboration is one of Acro’s core values, by working together and applying our skills and expertise across Sales, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain and Operations, we find the solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges and how we deliver our promises today and tomorrow.

Job Title Technical Author

Department Manufacturing Engineering

Reports to Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Location: Crick, Northampton (NN6)

Salary: Competitive

Excellent Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Pension
• Healthcare scheme
• Life assurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Retail discounts
• Training opportunities
• 37.5 hours per week – 1 pm finish on a Friday
  
  

Job Description

The Technical Author will be responsible for the Creation and upkeep of our standard operating instructions. Working alongside of the Manufacturing Engineers the Technical Author will ensure the work instructions our operators use to do their jobs are safety, efficient, quality focused and to the process. Furthermore, the Technical Author will own the SOP change approval process working with operations, quality, and engineering functions to ensure the SOPs are to the best standard.

Job Title Technical Author

Department Manufacturing Engineering

Reports to Lead Manufacturing Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• To create and maintain SOPs in accordance with:
• Health and Safety
• Design data
• Process
• Quality
• To communicate with other key functions and take on their feedback to improve our SOPs through the SOP change request process
• Feedback SOP change requests to the manufacturing engineering team to improve the production process
• Revising or rewriting existing technical literature
  

Skills And Experience Required

• Experience writing technical literature
• Good interpersonal skills
• A positive attitude with an eagerness to learn
• Have a keen interest in manufacturing and engineering
• Able to communicate effectively
• Aptitude for learning new techniques
• Capable of prioritising and multi-tasking
• Capable of working to agreed schedules
• Capable of working as part of a multi-functional team
• Proficient in Microsoft office
• Ability to articulate meaning
  
  

Highly desirable

• Catia V5 experience (1 Year)
• Smarteam experience
• Be able to read Engineering drawings
  
  

Our Values

Accountability

We do the right thing and own our actions

Collaboration

We build trusted relationships and deliver through high performing teams

Respect

We develop our people and care for the environment

Outstanding

We relentlessly drive improvement and are obsessed about innovation

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Airlines and Aviation

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