Technical Writer, drilling product assembly user guides

Technical Writer required to create new Oil and Gas drilling product documentation including assembly, maintenance and operational external user guides.

As part of the Technical Communications team, you will create and update operating and maintenance content with relevant expert sources in support of the engineering project team, facilitating the creation of high-quality and accurate technical documents such as assembly and test procedures and user guides.

For exciting new projects involving hardware and some software and complex engineering products for the Oil and Gas industry focusing on drilling and exploration.



The essential skill will be to take technical information and present it in a clear and concise form that can be understood by a global, non-technical audience.



Experience

Technical writing and editing skills, over two years commercial technical writing experience.

Content management system ideally Arbortext or similar structured authoring environment.

Engineering environment experience documenting hardware assemblies.

Photoshop, Illustrator or Creo to create and edit images.



Responsibilities

Create, update, and maintain technical assembly, maintenance, and operational content by working closely with project engineering teams.

Observe engineers in the assembly of products and to document the procedures.

Write structured documentation in a content management system that maximizes comprehension and ease of use.

Produce clear, concise, and accurate content for a wide range of users including users whose first language is not English.

Produce and edit graphics such as taking photos during engineering assembly, cropping photos, adding callouts, and repurposing engineering CAD models to produce renders/exploded views.