Engineering & Science - Technical Writing

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The Technical Writer has proven experience identifying content requirements to develop high-quality and technically accurate customer facing and internal use content in an Agile based workflow.

This role independently manages projects and priorities in a deadline-driven environment and requires collaboration with cross-functional areas of Elekta’s global business, and in particular, with engineering.

This position warrants the highest level of professional representation from our department to the various product/scrum teams for which you will provide documentation support.

This role also requires support of projects, programs, and policies established by Elekta.

Responsibilities


* Develop and publish content using DITA XML.


* Deliver contextually relevant content, for a variety of clinical site personnel, using help topics, release notes, configuration guides, and other supplemental material.


* Develop software installation and upgrade procedure content (SIPs, UPGs).


* Collaborate with various product teams to ensure quality and accuracy of content.


* Take ownership of deliverables in your product area, identify documentation needs and areas of improvement.


* Regularly report your work status, obstacles, initiatives to the team lead.


* Identify risks and manage and/or escalate to the project team and functional management.


* Demonstrate ability to prioritize tasks and work simultaneously on multiple projects.


* Scope, resource, plan, track, and execute against release timelines, in close collaboration with other stakeholders.


* Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the Information Development department.


* Other duties as required.

This list is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all responsibilities assigned to this position.

What you bring 


* BA or BS degree and/or certification in the field of Technical Writing is preferred.


* Working knowledge of software development, development pipelines, backend server concepts


* Current experience with DITA based documentation preparation tools.


* Current experience with Office tools, PowerPoint, Excel, Word.


* 5 years of experience managing, creating, editing, and reviewing technical documentation.


* Experience working in a Content Management System (CMS).


* Current understanding of Agile workflow; prior work in a Scrum envi...