Job Description

Volantes Technical Recruitment are seeking a Technical Author to work for one of the industries leading names at their new state of the art facility in Oxfordshire.

 

Description/Overall purpose of the Job

As a Technical Author, you will be responsible for the creation and control of task cards and work cards for the engineers and technicians to use and follow when carrying out their tasks. 

 

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Ensuring the shop floor is always using the latest revision of produced workcards, eliminating the risk of working to superseded data.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

• Applicants must meet any/all requirements of Export Compliance Regulations.