Description:
The Technical Publications Supervisor is responsible for leading a team in creating, implementing, and maintaining technical publications supporting Test and Evaluation Programs, including laboratory, ground, and flight operations. This position will lead a team in creating documentation for scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, preventative maintenance, inspections, and functional tests per applicable Supernal and industry guidelines.
This position will be required to work on-site 5 days a week.
What you can do:
- Supervise a team of technical writers and assign them daily and long-term tasks
- Performance manage a team of technical writers by setting goals, providing feedback, coaching, and conducting regular performance evaluations
- Monitor the attendance of technical writers by approving time off requests, making edits to the schedule as necessary, and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures
- Continuously monitor processes and procedures, ensuring efficiency and quality, while advising on opportunities for improvement; lead such initiatives as directed
- Ensure the workforce is appropriately trained for the safe execution of required tasks
- Create different types of documentation, such as how-to guides, references, manuals, or instructions
- Supports the team with documentation for system components and engineering artifacts
- Explain technical ideas in simple language
- Provide overall leadership of the technical writing tasks
- Process Owner for all technical documentation on the program
- Write and edit technical documentation for all of the project’s hardware and software, including installation, configuration, and how-to documentation
- Produce technical publications from technical documentation, drawings, specifications, standards, and consultations with technical personnel and other available resources
- Prepare, review, revise, and maintain technical documents, including design, modification, system operations, testing, and user documentation
- Up to 25% of domestic and international travel
- Other duties as assigned
What you can contribute:
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in aviation technical writing (an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered)
- Experience in leading a team
- Experience in Test and Evaluation
- Distill complex information into clear, concise text
- Apply writing and grammar skills and deliver accurate documentation under tight deadlines
- Demonstrated expertise in the creation of documentation in conventional and non-conventional formats
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proactive delivery of communication and follow up
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Must have the ability to independently prioritize and accomplish work within time constraints
- Proficiency with Excel VLOOKUP, pivot tables, MS Office Suite