Job Description:

Technical Writer

Location: Rochester, NY (14610)

Job ID: #59559

Seeking a curious and detail-oriented technical writer to join the Technical Publications team. Writers are responsible for planning, organizing, writing, and editing our client's technical operations, maintenance, and software help/manuals. A passion for learning new technologies, researching, and analyzing source material, and working with engineers and other subject matter experts are key for the successful candidate.

If you're a technical person with a demonstrated commitment to lifelong learning and continuous improvement, we'd like to speak with you.

Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Technical Communications, English, or a related field and 2 or more years of experience creating technical documentation

- Demonstrated proficiency in technical writing

- Experience with topic-based authoring

- Proficient with Adobe RoboHelp

- Proficient with Adobe Framemaker

- Ability to decipher and utilize source data from multiple sources, subject matter experts, and skill levels

- Ability to learn new concepts/technologies in a short time frame

- Ability to understand multi-level parts lists

- Ability to understand complex systems consisting of networked products

- Ability to understand similarities and differences between products for content reuse

Preferred Skills

- Military Communications Experience

- Mechanical aptitude; ability to disassemble/reassemble equipment and write remove/replace procedures

- Ability to read electrical diagrams/schematics

- DITA specifications, Framemaker EDD experience

- CorelDraw

- Microsoft PowerPoint

- Microsoft Word

- Experience developing Technical Manuals per MIL-STD-40051

- Experience developing courseware per TRADOC PAM 350-70

- Experience developing Training Data Products per MIL-PRF-29612

- Instructional Design experience

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Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is proud to provide an equal opportunity workplace and be an affirmative action employer. Consider Butler because we are committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We recognize that we thrive on diversity for the benefit of our employees, our customers, and the communities where we are located. Employment with Butler America Aerospace, LLC. is governed on the basis of qualifications and competence without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status..

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