Senior Technical Writer

Title : Technical Writer 3

Duration : 18-months contract

Location : Elkridge, MD

Active Secret Clearance

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Writes, rewrites and/or edits technical documents such as technical procedure manuals, user manuals, programming manuals, service manuals, operational specifications, and related technical publications to communicate clearly and effectively technical information and instructions to a wide range of audiences.

• Oversees preparation of illustrative materials, selecting drawings, sketches, diagrams and charts.

• Conducts quality review of materials.

• Publish materials in various formats, including page-based, electronic (basic and interactive), structured (HTML, XML, and SGML).

• Perform Desktop Publishing tasks for program/project reports, whitepapers, articles, and other documents.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in STEM discipline or related field or military operations and maintenance experience with radar, communications, electro-optics, networks and information technology -based sensors/systems.

• Expert knowledge on MS Office Products.

• Minimum of 2 years' experience with structured authoring applications, such as: MadCap, FrameMaker, or Arbortext.

• Possess and maintain Department of Defense (DoD) Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years' technical writing experience.

• Knowledge of standard content management strategies.

• Knowledge of Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE 100).

• Knowledge of standards – XML, SGML, HTML, S1000 and DITA – for structured Content.

• Possess and maintain DoD Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI)