Senior Technical Writer

Xylem Water Solutions Global Services AB / Maskiningenjörsjobb / Stockholm
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Xylem, a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world's most challenging water issues, is the leading global provider of efficient, innovative and sustainable water technologies improving the way water is used, managed, conserved and re-used. Our international team is unified in a common purpose: creating advanced technology and other trusted solutions to solve the world's water challenges. We are committed to creating an organization of inclusion and diversity, where everyone feels involved, respected, valued and connected, and where everyone is free to bring their authentic selves and ideas.

If you are excited and passionate about helping us #letssolvewater, we want to hear from you! For more information, please visit us at www.xylem.com.


Senior Technical Writer

Xylem is looking for a Senior Technical Writer who will develop and create technical documentation. In this role you will be responsible for making sure that installation manuals, user guides, quick guides, and text strings for software user interfaces are user friendly, informative and customer centric. You will be a part of the global Technical Documentation Group based in Sundbyberg, Stockholm.

You will be part of innovation projects and help produce documentation for our expanding range of software solutions. You will also work collaboratively with Product Development teams to create, write and develop product documentation for existing products throughout our global markets.

Responsibilities

* Coordinate the technical information development in new product development projects

* Analyze the technical information need
* List deliverables and contribute with time estimates to the overall time plan
* Be transparent and report to responsible parts on resource needs or risks of not delivering on time
* Assign tasks to dedicated resources within the content delivery team, and follow up on work progress

* Independently plan and develop content for reuse and reusability in accordance with the product risk analyses, subject matter expertise, and internal content development guidelines

* Analyze existing content
* Understand illustrations and their role in the documentation
* Perform software-assisted quality review of style, grammar, and terminology during the content development phase
* Perform peer review on markup and content
* Organize SME review to ensure technical accuracy

* Contribute to the development of the content management in collaboration with the documentation systems team

Personal characteristics

* Ability to think critically
* Analytical skills to assess and evaluate information in order to bring optimal logic, relevance and organization to unstructured documents
* A questioning mind and be able to think from different perspectives
* Strong attention to details and guarded against assumptions
* Clear word understanding and word precision
* Ability to convey written information clearly, consistently, accurately, and effectively using minimalism
* Excellent people and communications skills
* Ability to lead and instruct others
* Ability to grasp new concepts and ideas quickly
* Ability to be independent, follow internal content development guidelines, and deliver on time

Qualifications

* Academic degree in engineering or technical communications
* 4 or more years of documented experience working with technical communication
* Excellent English grammar and writing skills
* Experience from producing software document is beneficial
* Project leader skills
* Professional experience of software development teams and Agile ways of working
* Experience and understanding of single sourcing of content in DITA XML and Component Content Management Systems (CCMS)
* Understanding or knowledge of foreign languages and basic illustration skills are advantageous

Applicants may be required to take a writing test to convey their content structuring abilities and technical English language skills.

Application

We only accept applicants through https://www.xylem.com/en-us/careers/.

If you are interested in this position and would like to know more, please contact Leila Sayyad, Corporate Recruiter, [email protected] .

Welcome with your application!

The representative for Unionen is Mikael Lövås and the representative for the Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers "Sveriges Ingenjörer" is Martin Larsson, tel: + 46 8 475 60 00.

Varaktighet, arbetstid
Heltid Permanent

Publiceringsdatum
2021-07-09

Ersättning
Not Specified

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Sista dag att ansöka är 2021-08-06
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Företag
Xylem Water Solutions Global Services AB

Arbetsgivarens referens
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Omfattning
Detta är ett heltidsjobb.

Arbetsgivare
Xylem Water Solutions Global Services AB (org.nr 556782-9253)

Arbetsplats
Xylem

Jobbnummer
5856554

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