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About The Position

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.