Technical Author

Renishaw; Wotton-under-Edge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company seeks a skilled Technical Author to enhance user experiences through high-quality documentation. In this role, you will create and manage diverse technical content while championing a transition to structured authoring with a component content management system. Collaborate with engineering and marketing teams to ensure documentation meets customer needs and adheres to style standards. This opportunity offers a dynamic work environment with a focus on professional growth, a competitive salary, and a range of attractive benefits, including a hybrid working arrangement and a generous pension plan.

Benefits

9% non-contributory pension

Discretionary annual bonus

Subsidised onsite restaurants

Free parking

24-hour fitness centres

Cycle to Work scheme

Health Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technical writing within engineering.
• Proficiency with technical writing tools and CCMS platforms.
• Ability to create modular, reusable content.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain user guides and technical documentation.
• Support delivery of CCMS-based content management.
• Gather feedback from stakeholders to ensure accuracy.

Skills

Technical Writing

Attention to Detail

Content Management

XML

DITA

HTML

CSS

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in English or Technical Communication

Tools

CCMS

Jira

Job description

Renishaw Wotton-Under-Edge, England, United Kingdom

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Base pay range

Salary up to £50,000 depending on experience

Location Wotton-under-Edge, GL12

We're on the hunt for a talented technical author to join our friendly team.

You'll be creating, managing, and delivering high-quality documentation for our diverse range of products, and championing an exciting transition towards structured authoring using a component content management system (CCMS). You'll work closely with our engineering, product marketing, and support teams to make sure our documentation meets the needs of our customers and follows our style and quality standards.

What you’ll do

• Write, edit, and maintain user guides, data sheets, programming guides and other technical documentation with customer experience top of mind.
• Use best practices to create and manage content that is topic-based, modular, and reusable.
• Support the delivery of a comprehensive, fully CCMS-based content management and delivery platform and structured authoring process.
• Work with subject matter experts, reviewers, and other stakeholders to gather feedback and make sure our documentation is accurate and complete.
• Follow and contribute to the company's terminology database, style guide, tone of voice guidelines and content creation processes.
• Use analytics and customer feedback to identify and prioritise documentation gaps and improvements.
• Evaluate content to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, brand guidelines and technical writing standards.

What we’re looking for

• Circa 5 years’ experience in a technical writing role within an engineering discipline.
• Proficiency with technical writing tools, software and processes; previous experience with popular CCMS platforms is essential.
• Experience with XML, DITA, HTML, CSS, and other mark-up languages and standards.
• A portfolio demonstrating exceptional technical writing skills in English and knowledge of industry standards/best practices for technical documentation. Demonstrable ability to absorb and explain complex technical concepts in clear, concise and impactful language for a variety of audiences.
• Acute attention to detail and desire for accuracy. Able to monitor your own work and actively seek ways to improve. Be receptive to feedback and use it to improve your performance.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced and innovative environment. Meet productivity standards; Complete work in timely manner; Strive to increase productivity.
• Understanding of the localisation process and experience in managing multilingual content.
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira for workload management.

What we offer

• A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Discretionary hybrid working arrangement with minimum 2 days in the office per week (non-contractual).
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• The chance to make a meaningful impact on our documentation user experience, and the satisfaction of our customers.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional user experiences and are ready to be a part of a transformative project, we encourage you to apply. Join Renishaw and help shape the future of our technical communication.

When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. (*not available at our Castle Donington, Exeter & York sites).

We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join BUPA Renishaw Health Trust and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Marketing and Writing/Editing

• Industries

  Electrical Equipment Manufacturing and Software Development

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