What Your Job Will Be Like
Are you a Technical Writer & Editor ready to join Sandia National Laboratories and make an impact on critical technical communications in a collaborative environment with mission partners across the Lab? If so, the Knowledge Management Office, is currently seeking a Technical Writer and Editor to join their dynamic team!
Work will be in collaboration with technical staff, and will allow you to demonstrate agility in addressing, negotiating, prioritizing, and scheduling multiple requests to ensure timely delivery to meet partner expectations.
If you are seeking a role where you can enable a results-oriented approach and use your analytical skills to translate insights into actionable outcomes in support of a team's success, this may be the role for you!
On any given day, one may be called upon to:
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Write, edit, and/or rewrite technical content, including publications, manuals, presentations, and other materials, to effectively communicate technical procedures, research findings, and advancements to internal and external audiences.
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Collaborate with scientific and technical staff and subject matter experts to ensure documents meet requirements, are to standard, and are clear, concise, and understandable to the intended audience, both present and future.
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Exercise quality control over documents and manage them throughout their entire lifecycle, from draft through official release and publication.
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Provide developmental writing and editing for large and complex projects, including interviewing subject matter experts, conducting research, drafting documentation, providing guidance on document structure, and coordinating review cycles to meet schedule expectations.
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Interpret and coordinate documentation and communication policies and procedures.
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Facilitate documentation configuration and records management.
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Partner effectively with other Technical Writers and Editors and Information Management Professionals.
The selected applicant can work a combination of onsite and offsite work. The selected applicant must live within a reasonable distance for commuting to the assigned work location when necessary.
