Technical Illustrator: Precision Installation Diagrams

Zero Surplus - Sales Industry Insight & Talent Strategy; Harlow; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Zero Surplus is seeking a Technical Illustrator to join its R&D team, crafting diagrammatic installation guides from engineering data so customers can assemble products without words. You will generate compliance markings and coordinate with engineers, using SolidWorks Composer, InDesign, and Illustrator to communicate complex sequences through imagery.

This role rewards a precise, craft-focused approach over flashy design, with ownership of multi-launch workloads in a global market and a

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate a physical process through images alone.
• Strong eye for clarity, sequence and simplicity.
• Comfortable with Adobe InDesign and SolidWorks; experience with SolidWorks Composer is advantageous.
• Experience generating compliance markings is useful but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Create clear, step-by-step diagrammatic installation instructions from engineering data to finished guides.
• Generate product markings for compliance purposes.
• Work with SolidWorks Composer and Adobe suite to assemble final documentation.
• Manage workload and meet product launch deadlines with minimal supervision.

Skills

Technical illustration

Sequential instructions

CAD/Illustration

Artworker

Education

Product design degree

Tools

SolidWorks Composer

InDesign

Illustrator

SolidWorks

Job description

Zero Surplus is seeking a Technical Illustrator to join its R&D team, crafting diagrammatic installation guides from engineering data so customers can assemble products without words. You will generate compliance markings and coordinate with engineers, using SolidWorks Composer, InDesign, and Illustrator to communicate complex sequences through imagery.

This role rewards a precise, craft-focused approach over flashy design, with ownership of multi-launch workloads in a global market and a