Technical Writer

Peraton • Annapolis Junction, MD

4d • Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is hiring a Technical Writer for its Cyber Mission business unit in Fort Meade, Maryland. The position supports a large enterprise-wide engineering contract within the Intelligence Community and is performed at a customer location. The role requires 1,880 hours of support per year.

The Technical Writer prepares, reviews, revises, and maintains technical documents supporting the unit’s mission. Work includes writing and editing documentation for supported organizations; creating operational documentation, implementation and end-user guides, and Standard Operating Procedures; documenting fields, data definitions, and data flows; and formatting technical publications using pamphlets, technical drawings, consultations with technical personnel, and other available resources. The writer also tracks and monitors tasking and uses automated data systems and research tools to meet deadlines.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university and six years of experience as a Technical Writer on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity; alternatively, four additional years of Technical Writing experience may substitute for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience gathering, preparing, and maintaining operations documentation, user guides, manuals, technical publications, reports, responses, and briefings.
• Proficiency with multiple word-processing and presentation tools in the Microsoft Office suite, including Microsoft Projects and Visio.
• Understanding of basic concepts, including basic grammar.
• Ability to gather technical information and prepare written text.
• Ability to work independently through task completion without immediate direct oversight.
• Ability to create pages and upload documents in Confluence and Jira.
• Experience working with developers, engineers, and subject matter experts to document findings and requirements and present information for broader audiences.
• Experience applying technical-writing concepts based on engineering drawings, engineering documentation, and operational procedures.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and be subject to a government security investigation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience producing documentation used by the end-user community of DOD electronic equipment and systems.
• Experience producing technical documentation for Cryptologic programs or projects developing analytic tradecraft methodologies.
• Experience applying the customer’s technical manual standard.
• Familiarity with systems engineering documentation, including requirements-related materials, interface documentation, and other engineering work products.
• Ability to work effectively in a systems engineering environment and support documentation derived from technical and engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents supporting the unit’s mission.
• Write and edit technical documentation for supported organizations’ activities.
• Create operational documentation, implementation guides, end-user guides, and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Produce field, data-definition, and data-flow documentation.
• Format technical publications using pamphlets, technical drawings, consultations with technical personnel, and other available resources.
• Track and monitor tasking and use automated data systems and research tools to meet deadlines.
• Gather, prepare, and maintain operations documentation, user guides, manuals, technical publications, reports, responses, and briefings.
• Coordinate document layout and design and maintain a current internal documentation library.
• Create pages and upload documents in Confluence and Jira.
• Work with developers, engineers, and subject matter experts to document findings and requirements and present information for broader audiences.
• Apply technical-writing concepts based on engineering drawings, engineering documentation, and operational procedures.

Benefits

• Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents.
• 25 days of PTO accrued annually, up to a generous PTO cap.
• Eligibility to participate in a bonus plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and health savings account benefits.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).
• Parental leave.
• 401(k).
• Paid time off for vacation.
• Company-paid holidays.
• Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level