Tech Author

Volantes Technical Recruitment are seeking a Technical Author to work full time 37.5 hours per week at our world reknowned clients brand new facility in Oxfordshire.

ROLE

Working with maintenance managers, planning engineers and hangar floor staff, you will be expected to extract the key task milestones and format into an easy-to-read and purposeful document that aids in the correct and logical execution of tasks.

Main responsibilities

• Translation: Converting complex tasks from the AMM or Service Bulletins (SBs) into clear, sequential, and detailed task cards

• Version Control: Ensuring the shop floor is always using the latest revision of produced workcards, eliminating the risk of working to superseded data.

• Usability Testing: Physically validating workcards alongside technicians to ensure instructions are executable in the actual work environment (e.g., tool accessibility, torque sequences).

• Review and continuous improvement: Work with key users to continually improve the accuracy and validity of the data presented

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Experience with complex engineering processes

• Ability to understand, extract and write technical instruction in clear English

• IT literacy (Microsoft processing / GSuite)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English)

• Thorough attention to detail

• The ability to think clearly using logic and reasoning

• Proper and effective administration skills

• The ability to engage with key stakeholders, compiling information and produce clear document sets that encapsulate key themes and ideas

Desirable

• Aviation experience as a maintainer 

• Part 145 and Part-CAMO knowledge

• Maintenance planning exposure

• Knowledge of Envision 

Education, Qualifications or Training

Essential

• Engineering qualification (Level 3 equivalent or above)

Desirable

• Part 145 / Part CAMO familiarisation training 

• Aviation industry training 

About you 

• Attention to detail 

• Ability to deliver to deadlines

• Ownership to task and area of responsibility

Additional requirements

• Due to the nature of this position you will require DBS Security Clearance and be eligible for SC clearance.