Technical Author
Location: Crawley, United Kingdom
Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible. Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us.
Key Responsibilities
* Make Technical Publications/Authoring decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
* Fulfil the operating, maintenance and support requirements agreed with the customer. The information must be clearly and unambiguously presented, in a manner appropriate to the level of skill, experience and technical understanding of the users and maintainers of the equipment. It thus contributes to the customer’s ultimate objective of improving the success rate of maintenance and reducing the lifecycle cost of ownership of equipment.
* Close liaison with all aspects of engineering through the interaction with engineering personnel / interrogation of contributory engineering database. It will involve the research and origination of new and amended textual data for a wide range of equipment and maintenance activities.
* Compile data, to a variety of national / international /civil / military specifications and produce physical/electronic deliverables.
* Provide help and direction to less experienced team members.
* Manage own elements of Technical Publications /Authoring work package.
* Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.
* Set targets for and manage own development with line manager. Seek & share good practice & knowledge to continuously improve own practices.
* Manage work packages.
* Supervise and coach less experienced members of the team and apprentices.
Skills and Experience
* Technical Authoring
* Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft office packages/Authoring tools
* Excellent standard of written and spoken English
* Engineering knowledge/experience
* Good understanding of engineering standards and processes.
* Ability to turn technical information into easily understood text
* Supervisory
* Engineering Product Lifecycle
* Technical Authoring in an engineering environment
* Writing in a structured environment (eg XML to S1000D, Common Source Data Base, HTML, DITA)
Education
* Degree
* HND,
* BTEC qualified in engineering science with some engineering experience
* City and Guilds qualified in engineering science with some engineering experience.
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times.
Equal Opportunity
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
Security Clearance
SC Clearance is required. It would be advantageous if currently held, however if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.
To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.
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