What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Writer position at Credence Management Solutions, LLC?
Overview:
Credence is actively seeking a Technical Writer
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the duties listed below:
At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, secure cloud, digital transformation, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense, health, and international development federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for warfighters and secure our nation for a better future. We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success.
Credence is actively seeking a Technical Writer
- Performs a variety of routine project tasks applied to technical writing and documentation.
- Under general supervision from Project Managers and Program Manager, edits and rewrites documents for grammatical and usage errors, spelling, punctuation, and adherence to standards.
- Ensures quality of deliverables and proofreads documentation and graphics for accuracy and adherence to original content.
- Provides quality control checking for documents received from technical team and processes them to make them ready for client delivery.
- Assembles master copies, including graphics, appendices, table of contents, and title pages.
- Assists in document tracking and logging, and consults with technical staff to determine format, contents, and the organization of technical reports and proposals.
- Assists in collecting and organizing information required for preparation of user manuals, training materials, cybersecurity controls, workflows, installation guides, proposals, and reports.
- Edits functional descriptions, system specifications, user manuals, special reports, or any other customer deliverables and documents.
- Produces and manipulates graphics and visuals for informative and instructional material, including formatting/editing/writing a variety of technical articles, reports, and/or manuals for a wide range of uses.
- Ensures completeness and validity of cybersecurity controls in collaboration with Cybersecurity Engineer and software development and sustainment team.
- Minimum 3 years of relevant IT experience
- Ability to obtain (or existing) DOD Public Trust Clearance
- Must have experience with the following programs: MS Suite; Word; Excel; Access; MS Project; Power Point; Adobe Creative Suite; Visio.
- Experience as a technical writer on a large software development effort
- Control authoring experience
Minimum Education:
- Minimum Associates degree
- Undergraduate degree preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
