Aviation Technical Illustrator, Technical Writing
About The Position
BETA Technologies is seeking a technical illustrator with aerospace industry experience to create illustrations for maintenance, flight, and other manuals. The role also supports training materials, manufacturing work instructions, sales sheets, and other technical documents. The illustrator will use engineering CAD data to produce clear, simple illustrations for structured authoring applications and work collaboratively with technical writers and subject matter experts, including mechanics, pilots, engineers, and commercial and government operations personnel. The role involves defining illustration needs with writers and subject matter experts, integrating illustrations into structured authoring software, supporting document reviews, tracking illustration and document workflows, and meeting project deadlines. BETA describes its workplace culture as inclusive and mission-driven, focused on revolutionizing electric aviation and sustainability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree; an engineering or aerospace-related field is a plus.
- Technical illustration experience, including work to S1000D standards.
- Experience with CATIA V5, CATIA Composer or similar modeling software, and PTC IsoDraw.
- Close attention to detail and a customer-focused understanding of end-item configuration.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Willingness to keep learning and adapting, and ability to identify and solve roadblocks.
Nice To Haves
- Hands-on experience with CATIA V6.
- Experience on projects subject to approval by aviation regulatory authorities such as the FAA, EASA, or Transport Canada.
- DoD or military aviation technical illustration experience.
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Microsoft SharePoint, Slack, or Confluence/Jira.
- Experience in a fast-moving startup.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite.
Responsibilities
- Create technical illustrations for manuals, training materials, manufacturing work instructions, sales sheets, and other materials.
- Use engineering CAD data to generate clear, simple technical illustrations for structured authoring applications.
- Collaborate with technical writers and subject matter experts to define technical illustration needs.
- Coordinate with technical writers to incorporate illustrations into structured authoring software.
- Support document reviews and respond to comments and questions.
- Track technical illustration and document workflows using collaboration tools.
- Meet project deadlines.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units for full-time team members.
- Onsite healthcare in Vermont.
- Comprehensive medical coverage.
- Dental and vision coverage.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Daily lunch provided.
- Flight lessons.
- Additional perks.
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Job Type
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