Description/Overall purpose of the Job

As a Technical Author, you will be responsible for the creation and control of task cards and work cards for the engineers and technicians to use and follow when carrying out their tasks.

Working with maintenance managers, planning engineers and hangar floor staff, you will be expected to extract the key task milestones and format into an easy-to-read and purposeful document that aids in the correct and logical execution of tasks.

Main responsibilities

• Translation: Converting complex tasks from the AMM or Service Bulletins (SBs) into clear, sequential, and detailed task cards

• Version Control: Ensuring the shop floor is always using the latest revision of produced workcards, eliminating the risk of working to superseded data.

• Usability Testing: Physically validating workcards alongside technicians to ensure instructions are executable in the actual work environment (e.g., tool accessibility, torque sequences).

• Review and continuous improvement: Work with key users to continually improve the accuracy and validity of the data presented

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Experience with complex engineering processes

• Ability to understand, extract and write technical instruction in clear English

• IT literacy (Microsoft processing / GSuite)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)

• Thorough attention to detail

• The ability to think clearly using logic and reasoning

• Proper and effective administration skills

• The ability to engage with key stakeholders, compiling information and produce clear document sets that encapsulate key themes and ideas

Desirable

• Aviation experience as a maintainer

• Part 145 and Part-CAMO knowledge

• Maintenance planning exposure

• Knowledge of Envision

Education, Qualifications or Training

Essential

• Engineering qualification (Level 3 equivalent or above)

Desirable

• Part 145 / Part CAMO familiarisation training

• Aviation industry training

About you

• Attention to detail

• Ability to deliver to deadlines

• Ownership to task and area of responsibility

Additional requirements

• Due to the nature of this position you will require DBS Security Clearance and be eligible for SC clearance.

• Applicants must meet any/all requirements of Export Compliance Regulations.

• All candidates must possess the current, legal right to work in the United Kingdom.

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