Technical Author

Technical Author

Location: Gloucestershire
Working Pattern: 5 days a week, on site
Contract Length: 12 months

About the Role

Guidant Global is supporting our client in hiring anexperienced Technical Author to produce, maintain and deliver high-quality technical documentation for a range of complex products and internal systems.
These roles are ideal for detail-driven technical writers who enjoy working collaboratively with engineers, product teams and subject-matter experts to create documentation that is clear, accurate and compliant with organisational standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain existing documentation, ensuring accuracy, relevance and compliance with company standards
• Create new design and build documents, technical specifications, user manuals and other supporting documentation
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to develop test plans and additional technical content
• Engage with subject-matter experts to gather accurate information and ensure documentation integrity
• Produce diagrams and illustrations using corporate drawing packages such as Visio and CorelDRAW
• Use Adobe Acrobat to create, edit and manage PDF documentation
• Ensure consistency across all documents in format, style and quality
• Develop a thorough understanding of company products and technologies to support accurate documentation creation

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Technical Author/Technical Writer
• Ability to produce clear, concise and technically accurate documentation
• Strong collaboration skills, working confidently with technical and non-technical teams
• Experience using Visio, CorelDRAW and Adobe Acrobat
  
  

Desirable:

• Familiarity with engineering, technical or software product environments
• Experience documenting complex technical architectures, workflows or test materials

Why Work Through Guidant Global?

Guidant Global is committed to creating an inclusive, transparent and people-first recruitment experience. We support candidates throughout the full hiring process and partner with innovative organisations offering meaningful, long-term work.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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