Senior Proposal Writer – Space Electronics

Rocketdyne; Mason (OH); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Rocketdyne in Mason, Ohio is seeking an experienced Technical Writer to generate technical elements of bids and proposals and related documentation across Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, and Product Support. Remote work in Ohio may be considered; onsite in Mason is preferred.

The role requires strong attention to detail, excellent English writing skills, and collaboration with stakeholders across multiple functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (English) and minimum 6 years of technical writing experience for space electronics products.
• Advanced-level competency writing a variety of spacecraft and launch vehicle proposal documents.
• Excellent oral and written communication abilities.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio) and Adobe Acrobat DC.
• Proficiency with collaboration workspace tools: SharePoint, Teams, Nintex

Responsibilities

• Production, maintenance, update and verification of technical documentation.
• Support to Engineering, Program Management and Business Development by developing the technical elements of bids and proposals.
• Creating compliance matrices from technical requirements documents and statements of work.
• Creating template for technical and management proposal volumes based on Section L or equivalent requirements, and populating them with pre-written starting point content.
• Support development of proposal content, including rewriting content from SMEs, writing new content, and editing overall content.
• Ensuring proposal content emphasizes determined win themes and discriminators.
• Support Engineering in technical writing for various internal and external customers, including work instructions, specifications, SDRLs, technical whitepapers, and similar.
• Support of all products by developing capability definitions and product datasheets.
• Working closely with all the relevant teams across the business to understand the technology, products and services.
• Supporting overall proposal management tasks, including maintaining, updating and tracking all open, in-process bids and proposals, assisting in charge code creation, and managing B&P database.
• Desktop publishing support, including managing document format, printing and burning digital media as needed, ensuring fonts, page-counts, etc. meet customer requirements.

Skills

Technical writing

Space electronics

Proposal writing

English communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in English or related field

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

Nintex

Microsoft Office

Adobe Acrobat DC

Job description

Rocketdyne in Mason, Ohio is seeking an experienced Technical Writer to generate technical elements of bids and proposals and related documentation across Engineering, Business Development, Program Management, and Product Support. Remote work in Ohio may be considered; onsite in Mason is preferred.

The role requires strong attention to detail, excellent English writing skills, and collaboration with stakeholders across multiple functions.