Overview
Vehicle Workshop Manual Technical Author
Location: Hybrid working - Daventry, Northamptonshire / Gaydon, Warwickshire / Work from Home
Status: Full time permanent employee
Salary: Negotiable based on experience + Benefits
We are seeking to fill a Workshop Manual Technical Author role. You will join a friendly and innovative team working with a global automotive manufacturer to deliver technical publications, including user guides, owner manuals, service and repair methods, workshop manuals, illustrated parts catalogues and dealer documentation. This opportunity is suitable for an enthusiastic, passionate, and process-driven Graduate Engineer (or individuals with other similar learning credentials) with good IT skills and first-hand experience of automotive workshop repairs.
Responsibilities
* Analysing and documenting repair processes using CAD data and SRTD (Service Repair Time Database).
* Liaising with SST (Special Service Tool) developers, upstream service coordinators, automotive engineers, technicians and After Sales personnel to properly scope a given repair method.
* Time each service repair procedure using a selection of synthetic time elements.
* Using Cortona3D RapidAuthor tools with CAD data to create 3D animations to support each step of the procedure. These are then uploaded to the portal where they can be aligned with correct steps.
* On rare occasions where it is not possible to generate a procedure digitally, conduct a trial on a pre-production vehicle to ensure methods are accurate and timed correctly.
* Author Easy Repair Guides for owners who would like to do the basics on the vehicle themselves.
Your Skills And Experience
* Hands-on vehicle workshop experience is key. Workshop Manual authoring involves replicating workshop service operations in a digital engineering environment. A feel for realistic work parameters in service operations is essential.
* Excellent communication and customer-facing skills are essential. All engineers work directly with customers. A tenacious and can-do approach is imperative.
* Excellent computer skills; experience in a 3D digital environment is helpful. Use of CAD and CAD visualization tools is an important part of the role, and training is provided where needed.
* Strong organizational and project management abilities; you will need to be organized to understand and implement how your work interacts with a vehicle programme’s product development lifecycle.
* Ambition: be an active participant in a team focused on quick development of skills to enable CAD-IT UK to grow as a business and as a team.
Benefits
* Private Medical Insurance
* Company pension
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Long Service Award scheme
* Enhanced Maternity pay
* CAD-IT Mental Health & Wellbeing Support Group
* Company-wide and team social events, plus more
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