What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Documentation Specialist position at Red Canyon Engineering & Software?
Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!
Red Canyon Software is looking for an Engineering Documentation Specialist to support the design, development, testing, and deployment of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) next generation satellite laser ranging system, the Space Geodesy Satellite Laser Ranging (SGSLR) system.
\n- Work alongside engineers to research, organize, write and edit engineering procedural, operations & maintenance documents for existing and future systems. Create new and update any legacy documents already developed
- Use historical engineering documentation, data, and direction from engineers to create, write, revise, standardize, edit, review, and finalize documents. Prepare draft material for internal review by subject matter experts and final review by customer.
- Ensures technical documentation is accurate, complete, meets editorial and government specifications and adheres to standards for quality, graphics, coverage, format and style. May participate in the establishment of style guidelines and standards for texts and illustrations.
- Works autonomously, receives minimal guidance. Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
- Should exhibit flexibility of work hours to adjust to surge situations based on critical mission requirements
- Travel may be required to support projects; this may involve airline travel
- Bachelor’s degree in an applicable technical field or equivalent related experience. Specific contract requirements regarding education and experience will prevail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- 5 years of engineering related technical writing/editing experience
- Ability to read & edit engineering drawings, blueprints, wiring diagrams and schematics
- Must be flexible and have the ability to adapt to new information and programs
- Previous experience researching, reviewing and understanding technical information as well as developing procedural information for technical documentation
- Working knowledge and experience with space, engineering support, or Aerospace related projects
- Proficient in Microsoft office suite, Visio & Adobe Acrobat Pro
- US citizen and be able to obtain a Common Access Card (CAC)
- Applicant selected must be able to obtain a passport for potential international travel
- Applicant must disclose any countries for which they are restricted from travel
- CAD products, including but not limited to AutoCad & SolidWorks
- Previous experience with video training and capturing images with a camera, photo manipulation
- Experience working with NASA technical documents related to technical manual development, delivery, and integrated logistics support
Red Canyon Engineering and Software: “Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own”
Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Space, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Sidus Space, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Peraton, LASP, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include embedded flight software, software testing, GN&C, systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.
Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance Rover, InSight, GeoXO, Tranche-1, LizzieSat, Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Joint Polar Satellite System, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation.
Red Canyon’s home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office, Launch Now, is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.
Does it sound like you want to join our mission?
Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Salary : $100,000 - $125,000
