Technical Writer

Location: Thousand Oaks
Posted on: October 19, 2024

Job Description:

Specialist Technical Writing

? Minimum of 3 years of experience in leading and facilitating a team of Subject Matter Experts to writing process-based controlled documents, such as Standard Operating Procedures, in a highly regulated environment (preferably in biotech, pharma, or med device industry) ? Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; excellent active listening skills.

? Strong analytic and decision making abilities ? Flexibility and ability to participate in multiple projects simultaneously in a fast paced environment ? Minimum of 3 years of experience writing, formatting, and editing in Microsoft Word (including use of style tags). Experience with electronic document management systems and Microsoft Visio is preferred.

Day to day responsibility:

The primary responsibilities may include, but are not limited to the following:

? Translate subject matter expert and stakeholder discussion into process flows and controlled document procedures.

? Lead and facilitate the development, authoring, and revision of controlled documents.

? Serve as a process documentation subject matter expert and point of contact.

? Provide regular status updates to business customers to achieve goals and meet deadlines.

? Establish timelines and report regularly on progress, obstacles, and execution.

? Work with communication, training, and other project team members in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project implementation.

Job Details: Develops, writes, edits, and formats materials such as Standard Operating Procedures, Manuals, forms, checklists, technical manuals, and related technical and business process documentation. Facilitates documentation project teams to identify appropriate document type and content. When creating, updating and enhancing the documentation, adhere to format, content and style guidelines, giving consideration to usability and ensuring accuracy, consistency and quality. Additionally, this position will be required to administer the processing of documents via the established Document Processing Review process. May require communication through a variety of media (e.g., CD, intranet, on-line training, etc.); Skills: ; MS Office expertise ; previous technical writing experience ; regulated environment experience ; document version control experience ; excellent writing and verbal communication skills, facilitation. Additional experience with business process management methodology preferred.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer and will consider all qualified candidates without regard to disability or protected veteran status.

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