Technical Writer 3

Prime Time Consulting provides clients with expert intelligence analysis services. Our clients include defense contractors, industrial and service corporations, and departments and agencies of the U.S. Federal Government. 

We are actively searching for Technical Writer Skill Level 3, located in Maryland, to support our team. We have varying levels of this position, depending on years of experience and education.

Essential Job Duties

•  Responsible for the preparation, review, revision, and maintenance of technical documents including SW and systems engineering, system operations, testing, and user documentation. Write and edit technical documentation for all of the project’s HW and SW to include installation, configuration and how-to documentation. Create code documentation for SW; produce implementation guides and end-user guides for capabilities; provides field, data definition, and data flow documentation and formats technical publications from pamphlets, technical drawings, and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources.

The Level 3 Technical Writer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Assist in preparing and maintaining operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications
• Gather technical information, prepare written text
• Maintain a current internal documentation library
• Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
• Prepare and maintain operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications
• Work with developers to produce quality documentation and training materials
• Work on all phases of documentation
• Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), and write technical copy for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity
• Prepare reports, responses, and briefings targeted to a wide range of audiences
• Coordinate layout and design of documents
• Research highly technical subject matter, organize information from multiples sources, and express technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers
• Apply concepts for technical writing based on engineering drawings, technical information from engineering documentation, consultations with engineers and subject matter experts, and other available sources
• Produce defense acquisition documentation, user manuals, training manuals, and other documentation utilized by the end-user community of DoD electronic equipment and systems
• Interpret engineering and maintenance drawings, operational procedures to understand and blend large quantities of computer related information
• Produce technical documentation for Cryptologic programs or projects developing analytic tradecraft methodologies
• Ability to create, update and monitor Sharepoint, Confluence, and/or similar technology tools
• Provide expert oversight of technical writing and editing to all phases of acquisition and technical documentation for the Program, Project, or Contract
• Work independently preparing and maintaining highly complex systems, programming and operations documentation, procedures and methods
• Act as project leader for projects with complex or voluminous documentation and may provide or coordinate special documentation services as required

Required Qualifications

• 8 years experience as a TW on programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.        
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• A Master’s degree in a technical or business discipline may be substituted for 2 years of experience, reducing the requirement to 6 years of experience.
• In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, 4 years of additional TW experience may be substituted.

Company Perks

• 200 hours of PTO annually
• 6% 401k Contribution
• Competitive Health Care Options
• Short Term/Long Term/Life Insurance
• Annual Training Budget

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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