Technical Author

Are you seeking a new opportunity as a Technical Author?

Expleo are recruiting a Technical Author for Body and Equipment Mounting Manuals on behalf of our Essex based Automotive client. In this contract position, you’ll play a vital role in using a documented authoring method to update or create new technical content in Adobe In-Design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilise 3D CAD data from TeamCentre or VisMockup to generate layered images using Adobe Photoshop.
• Import visual and content assets into Adobe InDesign to compile draft manuals for initial review.
• Use the draft manual to consolidate input from Subject Matter Experts and agree the content for publication.
• Revise the Adobe InDesign files within the appropriate sections of the Base Engine Maintenance Manual.
• Prepare documentation with consideration for translation into seven European languages, maintaining a clear, customer-focused tone throughout.
• Adhere to the BEMM loading and capacity chart to coordinate updates efficiently and support the Senior Engineer in maintaining documentation integrity.

Skills Required:

• Must be familiar with Class Styles, Anchoring & Hyperlinks, Tables and Image flattening.
• Expert in Adobe In-Design.
• Proficient in Adobe Photoshop, Catia 5, TeamCentre and VisMockup.
• Ideally have an awareness of language translations when creating new content.

Expleo is a trusted partner for end-to-end, integrated engineering, quality services and management consulting for digital transformation. We help businesses harness unrelenting technological change to successfully deliver innovations that will help them gain a competitive advantage and improve the everyday lives of people around the globe and look forward to welcoming you into our team.

To meet with current legislation, right to work checks will be carried out to ensure candidates are able to work within the UK, unfortunately we are unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

Any application will be treated in a highly confidentiality manner and all conversations will be respected. To learn more about this exciting Technical Author opportunity please apply now!