Technical Writer (Remote)

Job Description

Dayton T. Brown, Inc. (DTB) has been synonymous with the pursuit of excellence and customer service for over 70 years. Our Technical Services Division provides technical documentation, communication, and logistics/maintenance planning services for some of the biggest names in the industry.

Join our amazing team of talented, dedicated professionals at DTB.

Under general direction, this position is responsible for leading a task for documenting and developing detailed operation, maintenance and/or troubleshooting procedures, checklists, technical specifications, alert bulletins, training materials and other procedures and reports. The candidate shall have some knowledge of project writing specifications (ATA, S1000D, MIL-STD-40051, MIL-STD-3001, MIL-STD-38784, MIL-PRF-83495, etc.).

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Have knowledge of interactive electronic technical manuals (IETM) development.
2. General knowledge of S1000D business rules; and how project specific technical data is developed in accordance with (IAW) a project book plan or technical data development plan.
3. Understanding of technical data development by leveraging source data from logistics management information (LMI) maintenance task analysis (MTA), 3D models, engineering documentation and drawings.
4. Understand development of operational procedures and corrective maintenance and diagnostics (troubleshooting) procedures for Organizational (O-Level), Intermediate (I-Level) and Depot (D-Level) maintenance as required by the project.
5. Ensure clear, concise and accurate technical documentation is authored, and technical authoring is adhering to the processes required by the project.
6. When required, collaborate effectively with Subject Matter Experts such as engineers, technicians, and publications personnel.
7. Incorporate customer comments correctly.
8. Ensure assignments are completed in a timely manner to facilitate on-time delivery of technical data to our customers.
9. Contribute to continuous improvement objectives to achieve quality goals.

In this role you will also need to be flexible and work closely, yet remotely, with the DTB team of technical writers, illustrators, production and managers. You will be tasked to ensure the team is following DTB processes and company work instructions; to consistently produce accurate, high-quality documents while working in a fast-paced environment; and be able to multi-task, and work independently.