Job Role: Publication Technical Content Writer with 3D CAD
Location: Woodridge, IL (Onsite)
Domain Mandatory: Automotive
Type: Full Time
Job Roles & Responsibilities:
Mandate Skills: Arbor Text, XML, DITA, Adobe Illustrator, Automotive Domain
- Experienced Information Developer/Technical Writer with more than 4 years of experience
- At least 2 years of writing/editing, technical illustration experience or automotive/truck support experience
- Hands-on experience with developing customer service documentation
- Ability to meet deadlines, monitor and assess performance within deadlines and utilize resources appropriately to ensure accurate and timely deliverables
- Ability to multitask, prioritize tasks, and interface with many personalities
- Strong communication skills: ability to take complex engineering concepts and explain them at an appropriate audience level
- Develop draft illustration to support procedural/descriptive text using model file or existing artwork
- Independently gather information from technical and non-technical Subject Matter Experts to organize, develop, and write technical service content
- Routinely interpret various source information which may include procedural mark-ups, engineering drawings, parts lists, draft assembly, and maintenance instructions
- Adapt to production and environmental changes, and editorial processes
- Experience with service tools and its specifications used for vehicle servicing
- Good understanding of Agile environment & alignment to Agile writing principles
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- To work with cross-functional Teams
- The candidate must have bachelor’s degree
- Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels of management
- Previous automotive/dealership hands-on experience\
- Project management experience
- Strong MS Office tools experience including, Word, Excel, SharePoint and OneNote
- Experience with Arbortext Editor or equivalent XML editing software
- Experience with Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/In-Design
- Understanding of structured authoring (DITA)
- Some experience with CAD software, Unigraphix/NX. Navigational use of these programs for articles and publications
- Knowledge of automotive system theory, in any or all the following areas:
- Electronic and electrical fundamentals
- Mechanical procedures
- Modern automotive systems
