Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for Technical Writing Specification for our client in San Diego, CA
Job Title: Technical Writing Specification
Job Location: San Diego, CA
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
Pay Range: $50hr - $55hr
Responsibilities:
- Create, edit, and maintain customer and internal-facing technical documentation, including user manuals, installation guides, troubleshooting guides, and upgrade/downgrade instructions for various country regulatory submissions.
- Ensure all documentation meets regulatory requirements, industry standards, and company policies.
- Create illustrations, flow charts, diagrams, and line art, in addition to product photos for both quality and technical documentation.
- Provide recommendations to engineers on optimizing engineering data expressed in graphs, illustrations, and tables to ensure clarity and consistency.
- Collaborate with engineering, quality assurance, regulatory affairs, clinical/medical affairs, marketing, customer support, and other departments to gather information and ensure accuracy and completeness of documentation and to suggest changes to enhance a document's readability, clarity, conciseness, and style.
- Also, collaborate with subject matter experts in the review and development of instructions-for-use (IFU) design specifications as part of the product’s quality documentation.
- Review and edit technical documents for clarity, accuracy, and compliance.
- Develop and implement documentation standards, best practices, and style guides to ensure consistency and quality.
- Communicate effectively with all levels of management and business units (corporate and international), and possess a high degree of flexibility/selectivity in prioritizing business unit deliverables to meet company goals.
- Stay current with industry trends, regulatory changes, and best practices in technical writing and medical device documentation.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior technical writers and other team members.
- Manage fast-moving documentation projects, including timelines, resources, and deliverables.
- Participate in, conduct, and drive cross-functional team meetings to provide input on documentation requirements and timelines.
Qualifications:
- Experience working in a regulated industry such as medical devices or pharmaceuticals.
- Extensive experience with regulatory compliance processes.
- Strong background in supporting regulatory requirements to ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines.
- Demonstrated ability to be highly collaborative with marketing, clinical, quality, and regulatory reviewers.
- Five or more years of writing and editing hardware/software user guides (print and online) and other technical product documentation.
- Ability to effectively manage the delivery of prioritized tasks.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of initiative to gather information for developing documentation.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Effective at thinking independently and solving problems with the product core team members.
- Ability to work under compressed deadlines and must be able to deal with unresolved situations, frequent project changes, delays, or other events.
- Ability to handle multiple projects with excellent follow-up and project management skills.
- Familiarity with electro-mechanical concepts and software application usage.
- Experience in device labeling and/or packaging content development.
- Familiarity with large company engineering change control processes and Agile software development methodologies.
- Experience with SAP, Oracle, or a similar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a plus.
- Experience in version control systems (VCS) such as Perforce, Apache Subversion, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, or GitHub.
- Knowledge of photography and photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop.
- Skilled in both electronic and hard copy markup (Acrobat, tracked changes in Microsoft Word, standard editorial and proofreading symbols).
- Knowledge and experience with desktop publishing (DTP) software applications (MadCap Flare, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, XML, DITA) as applicable for technical documentation.
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