Date posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010     Company: Techwriters     Job title: Technical Writer for Installing, Operating an Automatic Controller Device     Job location: Long Island City, NY 11101     Contract or staff: Contract     Pay: $42/hr.     On site of off site: On site     Travel: No     Duration: Two months, possible extension     Degree: B.S., B.A., Electronics, Technical Writing     Major: Technical Writing, Electronics, English     Skills, experience: Technical writing for hardware equipment installation, operation, troubleshooting, specification sheets. Know InDesign, graphics programs. Have sample hardware user guides you can send us.     Job description: Work with not-so-bad existing installation, configuration, operations instructions for a fairly simple electronic controller. Write clear, active-verb steps for building facilities personnel. Interview engineers on site to understand, work with new products, then write crystal-clear, 24-carat, stand-alone instructions. If necessary, the company can provide wiring diagrams and schematics for you to integrate into the small user guides. Ideally, you can produce sharp, simple graphics of pin positions. Knowledge of InDesign a big plus. Have tech. pubs. experience writing user guides for hardware, equipment, or medical devices, experience producing data sheets with specs in InDesign. The V.P. of Engineering (who writes the user guides currently) needs a professional technical writer to take over. He can provide schematics and wiring diagrams; you must know how to interview engineers, experiment with the (fairly simple) equipment, compose and organize clear directions for customers in numbered steps.     How to apply: Send your resume, Word or PDF sample office procedures to reply1@techwriters.com. Your resume must show your home address (city, state, zip code).     Contact name: Dorothy Webster     Website: www.Techwriters.com Date posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2010     Company: Techwriters     Job title: Technical Writer for Physical Therapy Office Job Aids     Job location: Huntington, WV 25719     Contract or staff: Contract     Pay: $30/hr.     On site of off site: On site for meetings     Travel: No     Degree: B.A., B.S. or above     Major: Technical Writing, English, Physical Therapy (PT)     Skills, experience: Writing office procedures and job aids for doctor’s offices or other institutions’ accounts payable, accounts receivable, patient scheduling, practitioner scheduling, patient evaluations. Have good procedures, job-aids you wrote as a technical writer for a bank, hospital, or government agency. Know FrameMaker, Word, or InDesign.     Job description: Large, five-location physical therapy (PT) provider needs procedures for all back office personnel to follow. Go to one of the PT facilities, observe and tape record what secretaries, therapists, and all back-office, support personnel do every day. Organize the procedures you write by job title in a handbook for new hires. Label each task by activity (heading), format your procedures, write short, clear, numbered steps using active verbs only.     How to apply: Send your resume, Word or PDF sample office procedures to reply1@techwriters.com. Your resume must show your home address (city, state, zip code).     Contact name: Dorothy Webster     Website: www.Techwriters.com