Technical Author

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Granta Design leads the materials information technology market, experiencing year-on-year growth over the past 10 years with a unique product and great reputation.  NASA, Rolls Royce, Intel, and many other industry leaders world-wide are using our software to go higher, lighter, and greener; and many tens of thousands of students use our educational software every day as part of materials and architectural courses.

The continued expansion in the number and depth of our product lines has seen a commensurate growth in the amount and type of technical documentation needed to support those products.

What you will be doing:

You will be the second and senior member of our Technical Documentation team, with overall responsibility for technical documentation for the company’s products.  As team leader, you will oversee the day-to-day tasks of the documentation team, report on the team’s activities and achievements to the head of Technical Services, and act as liaison with the marketing documentation team. You will also take on responsibility for overhauling and managing our content management systems.

As a writer, you will contribute to the team’s documentation efforts, creating a full range of documentation for users at all levels of expertise:  user guides, reference manuals, training guides, online help, software demos, and interactive tutorials. You will work closely with Granta's technical and marketing teams to develop in-depth knowledge of our innovative software and data products, and to decide on the best delivery vehicles for our documentation.

About you:

• You will have previous experience in technical writing, and be able to demonstrate experience in planning, estimating, and delivering software documentation
• You will have previous experience leading a team
• You will have previous experience in instigating change to improve existing systems or processes
• Ideally, you will have previous experience of content management, XML, single-sourcing, and localization
• You will have an excellent command of English, and perhaps some aptitude for languages in general—French and German would be a particular advantage
• You enjoy understanding complex technical information and explaining this to others through clearly written materials, web pages, and multimedia
• You must be detail-oriented and have excellent project management skills
• You are a team-worker, self-motivated, technically accomplished, and customer-focused

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