Technical Author

Technical Author - Netherlands - Technical Author

Introduction
The Industrial Engineering sector is responsible for driving the operational requirements into the early design of  products. eg Reliability, Availability, Cycle time and plays a leading role in reducing operational costs by design and process improvements for volume products.

Job Mission
The holder of this position reports to the group leader Industrial Engineering. (S)he will work in a team to create new documents, improve what we currently have, and research what needs to be documented as we are continually improving our documents, processes, and procedures.

Job Description
The technical author writes, reviews, and publishes the technical documentation necessary to support field service engineers that support the installed  products. This means working closely with the engineering team to provide the work instructions and procedures needed for maintenance, repair, upgrade, and installation of the systems via the  dynamic publishing software environment. Most work instructions and procedures are on detail level.

The candidate:
- Participates in an engineering team, preparing technical documentation based on input and drafts from equipment engineers in the team.
- Prepares complex technical producers clearly and accurately in simple English with a methodical approach.
- Processes review comments on existing procedures and assigns for review by engineers where necessary.
- Ensures a uniform high standard of technical documentation for the team.

Education
Bachelor Degree or higher in any field.

Experience
- Experience as a technical author.
- Hands-on technical experience (through work or hobbies) is preferred, eg as a car mechanic or equipment engineer. A great candidate can use technical experience to challenge the solution of the engineers where relevant.
- Process improvement/quality management experience is a pre (eg Lean Six Sigma).
- High tech experience (eg aerospace) is a pre.

Personal skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
- Candidate has technical affinity, preferably with equipment engineering.
- Team player, but able to work independently.
- Plenty of (own) initiative.
- Strong personality; candidate is assertive.
- Able to maintain overview is dynamic environment (organized and flexible where needed).
- Experience with EPIC software is a pre.

Context of the position
Industrial Engineering provides the people, means, methods and technical capabilities to introduce new products to the customer site. The engineer improves reliability, availability and operational cost of the installed  products at the customer site, according to an agreed specification. This means specification of operational requirements, co-design of new products, integration, validation, and introduction of new products and processes, and continuous improvement of volume equipment.

Other Information
- The project end date is 30-06-2013, with a possibility for extension.
- Work experience; clearly state the months for each employer (for example: 08/2010 - 06/2012)
- Enclose a personal motivation from the candidate IN the Resume. If not enclosed, candidate will be rejected.

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