Technical Writer - Maintenance and Operation Manuals
Posted 25 days ago
Job Description
As a technical writer, you will be responsible for gathering, processing, and delivering technical information for our products and systems. You will be involved in the documentation process and work closely with system engineers, trainers, and other specialists to ensure that the documentation is accurate, clear, and useful.
- Collect technical information from various sources, such as system engineers, coordinators, and trainers.
- Participate in customer meetings to ensure documentation requirements are met.
- Attend internal meetings for feedback and reporting.
- Write and update technical documentation in XML format, including:
- Technical descriptions
- Maintenance instructions
- Fault-finding instructions
- Driver manuals
- Review, translate, and proofread documentation in both Swedish and English.
- Create and update technical illustrations.
- Administer and update document revisions.
- Support the team according to plan, including proofreading colleagues’ documents.
- Hands-on experience in maintenance and troubleshooting.
Qualifications
- Relevant education in technical documentation, information design, engineering, or a related field.
- Alternatively, equivalent work experience, such as maintenance technician.
- Experience in technical work within automation, rail, aviation or similar industries.
- Experience as a technical writer, information designer, or communicator.
- Excellent proficiency in both Swedish and English, written and spoken.
Merits:
- Experience working with railway vehicles.
- Knowledge of Arbortext XML, content management systems (CMS), and scripting.
- Understand how customers actually use documentation in the field.
- Align documentation with real operational and maintenance workflows.
- Understand and implement customer-driven validation and acceptance criteria.
- Translate customer use cases into document structure, content depth, and usability.
- Ensure the documentation is technically correct, safe, and configuration-aligned.
- Support documentation acceptance during testing, commissioning, and final delivery.
Additional Information
ATEXIS is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.
With a wide range of projects and internal development opportunities, you will have the chance to take your career to the next level. 🚀
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ATEXIS is an international company of the ALTEN Group, a global leader in engineering and IT services, with headquarters in 30 countries and 57,000 employees worldwide. At ATEXIS, we innovate to enable more sustainable and secure technology for the future of society. We do this by helping our customers with the operations and maintenance of complex systems, such as aircraft, ships or helicopters, from the design phase through to end-of-life or second life. Our goal is to make them more durable, improve their performance and optimise their lifecycle cost. Our customers include major leaders in the Aerospace, Defence, Railway, Naval, Energy and Industrial sectors, to whom we provide services in Technical Documentation, Training (eLearning, Operations and Instruction Manuals), Operations and Maintenance Engineering, such as RAMS (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) and ILS (Integrated Logistic Support). Our team, which has more than 1,200 employees, is made up of the best experts in the industry from more than 20 locations, including offices in Spain, France and India. At ATEXIS, every day is a new challenge that requires us to have the best talent. That's why we want to count on you! Do you want to work with us? Don't miss out on our vacancies.
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