Job Title: Senior Technical Author/ ILS Engineer
Salary: £41,000 - £47,000 depending on experience and skills
What you’ll be doing:
* Working within the documentation team and liaising with project teams and engineers to author Component Maintenance Manuals, Data Modules, Illustrated Parts Catalogues etc.
* Creating new technical documentation and amending existing technical documentation, ensuring all information is up-to-date and accurate.
* Working closely with engineers to gather information, including design drawings, to fully understand the impact that changes have on technical documentation.
* Interpreting engineering data, and where appropriate, querying data to ensure correct and accurate interpretation.
* Producing production specifications for sub-contracted work packages and effectively managing the lifecycle of the sub-contracted packages.
Your skills and experiences:
* BTEC Level 3/HNC/HND in an engineering discipline.
* Understanding/ability to read technical design drawings.
* Experience in a maintenance or manufacturing environment.
* Computer literate with a sound knowledge of Microsoft Office products.
* Experience of creating/updating Data Modules (DMs), Component Maintenance Manuals (CMMs), Initial Provisioning Lists (IPLs), and Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETPs).
* Experience of Adobe FrameMaker (Structured & Unstructured), S1000D editor or Eagle EPS, Initial Provisioning to S2000M.
BAE Systems offers a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts.
The Technical Engineering team:
You will work within a team of Technical Authors and ILS Engineers, as part of Electronic System’s supportability engineering function, contributing to the development and through-life support of customer-facing documentation.
This role will provide you with the opportunity to work within many project teams across a wide range of products and grow key skills.
Why BAE Systems?
A place where you’ll be able to make a real difference, with an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfill your potential.
Note: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard, and some roles require higher levels of National Security Vetting.
Closing Date: 21st October 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
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