Technical Writer - Raymond Ohio

Thomas & Reed, LLC; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Thomas & Reed, LLC is searching for a Technical Writer in Dayton, Ohio, to collaborate with product development teams. This role involves preparing detailed documentation for tasks and defining roles, responsibilities, and development processes to ensure an efficient workflow. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in communications or relevant experience and 3+ years in technical writing. Strong communication skills, proficiency in tools like Confluence and Flare, and attention to detail are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in communications or equivalent experience.
• Must have 3+ years technical writing experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Learn different aspects of product development.
• Create process documents for various tasks.
• Establish process documentation structure and guidelines.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Proficient in word processing and collaboration tools

Attention to detail

Basic project management skills

Creative problem-solving

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in communications or equivalent

3+ years of technical writing experience

Tools

Confluence

Flare

Sharepoint

Job description

Description

A Technical Writer who works with product development teams and will be responsible to prepare documentation for tasks to define roles and responsibilities, development processes and know-how to facilitate an efficient flow of work.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications or appropriate comparable discipline or 3+ years technical writing experience.
• Must have strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with a variety of people and job functions.
• Has proficient computer skills in word processing and usage of collaboration related tools (Confluence, Flare, Sharepoint, etc).
• Pays attention to detail and sets high personal goals or standards of performance.
• Has basic project management skills and is able to determine a project timeline.
• Has developed organizational skills to prioritize workload and accomplish tasks to define project timeline.
• Can generate creative solutions to problems and is open to trying different and novel approaches.
• Develops and maintains cooperative working relationships. Works in teams to reach project goals in desired format.

Basic responsibilities

• Learning different aspects of the product development.
• Using learned aspects, creates process documents for performed tasks; such as process description, work steps and inputs/outputs for given activities.
• Listening to identify tasks, who is responsible and generalizing these to an overall task list to clarify roles and responsibilities amongst groups & departments.
• Prepare training materials related to process documents to facilitate new employee learning.
• Review created process documents/material with product teams, revise as needed then receive approval.
• Post and maintain repository of process documentation.
• Establish process documentation structure and guidelines.