Sr. Technical Writer (FTE)
Location
Bangalore | India
Job description
Technical Writer
As part of Technical Communications at Schneider Electric As Technical Writer you create high quality and legally compliant Technical documentation for our Connect Living products and systems.
Your scope of duties - Create software and hardware technical documentation
- Closely collaborating with the agile software development team for Software documentation
- Investigate relevant information from Offer development and Offer management
- Transfer technical input into readable, easy understandable content / topics with the right text and illustration mix for your target audience. Brief technical illustrators
- Being part of an international technical documentation team, collaborate on guidelines and new technologies for digitizing our information (e.g. html 5 responsive)
- Manage DITA content in our authoring system (PTC Arbortext) for efficient reuse and standardization
- Manage translation and localization process
- Publish created information on the web and prepare files for the printing office
Your profile - At least 7 years of experience as technical writer, ability to create technical manuals from scratch autonomously.
- Ability to structure information and translate complicated concepts into easy to follow instructions, education as technical writer is a must, e.g. tekom certificate
- Very good understanding of technical writing concepts such as ANSI safety warnings, consistent terminology, unambiguous language…
- Ideally a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Fluency in English, strong writing skills in English, native speaker an advantage
- Experienced with using technical writing tools (ideally Arbortext or comparable XML editor, Adobe technical communication tools) and collaboration tools (Teams, Planner…).
- Experience with working in an agile environment
- Strong communicating and coordination skills
- Motivated to introduce new methods for providing technical documentation
- Fluent in both spoken and written English
- Positive and open attitude, flexibility.
- Collaborative working style, team-player
Schedule: Full-time
Req: 008O89
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