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Technical Writer
Job Locations US-SC-Greenville
Requisition ID
2025-19144
of Openings
Position Type (Portal Searching)
Regular Full-Time
Overview
Canon Business Process Services has an excellent, work from home opportunity. This role can be based in Schenectady, NY, Atlanta, GA, Greenville, SC or Houston, TX.
The Technical Writer will be responsible for reviewing technical documents to develop, write, and edit a broad range of technical content. The Technical Writer must be able to understand complex scientific information, theories, and practices in addition to possessing strong writing skills.
Responsibilities
Duties to be performed :
Review and understand arrangement, assembly and schematic drawings / diagrams
- Review and compare Bills of Materials (BOMs) for New Product Introduction (NPI) including new units and new outage tooling
- Review and compare mechanical configurations to revise GT maintenance procedures or create new ones based on design enhancements
- Write, revise, proofread, review, standardize, and digitize GT disassembly, inspection, repair, and reassembly procedures and inspection forms
- Collaborate with Productivity Engineering to update Field Procedures as required for NPI tooling development
- Collaborate with regional Field Engineering teams to simplify and improve Field Procedures
- Maintain revision control of created and / or revised procedures and documents
- Create procedures based on standardized templates
- Convert legacy / previous formatting to latest formatting
- Work with databases, digital libraries and workflow systems
- Create One-Page sign-off Field Procedures affecting gas turbine maintenance outages, Field Engineers (FE) and Craft Labor
- Convert existing FP's into "fillable PDF" format, enabling mobile devices and simplifying / digitizing outage document retention
- Apply and maintain metadata tags on created / revised documents. The tags are used in the Master Index search, which is used by over 10,000 FE's and operations personnel to locate the documents in the Library. Keep library and master index in sync.
- Self-sufficient interaction with multiple design teams / engineers to secure content necessary for procedure creation / revision
- Graphics : Experienced in creations and modifications of Fields Procedures, Forms and other documents
Qualifications
What We Offer :
Competitive pay & benefits!
Comprehensive training and development programs that prepare employees to advance from within.
A company focused on creating a positive work and client environment.
Employee discounts on entertainment, products, and services nationwide!
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