Technical Writing

Technical Writing




 

Date posted: Thursday, January 12, 2012
   
Company: Techwriters
   
Job title: Technical Writer with InDesign for Med. Device User Guides, Labels
   
Job location: San Jose, CA 95138
   
Contract or staff: Contract
   
Pay: $42./hr.
   
On site of off site: On site
   
Duration: three months, contract
   
Degree: B.A., B.S., or higher
   
Major: Technical Writing, Medical Writing, English, Engineering
   
Skills, experience:

Technical, Medical writing, InDesign: labels, inserts, package labels.

   
Job description:

Our client needs a good user guide writer (hardware, equipment) for their medical equipment. Use InDesign to produce user guides, labels, inserts. This company makes a wide range of patient-handling furniture, operating-room instruments, orthobiologics, and orthopedic devices. They need someone who has written FDA-approved instructions for use.

   
How to apply: Upload your resume and sample user guides with numbered-step instructions here. Please include the city and state where you live on your resume.
   
Contact name: Dorothy Webster
   
Website: www.Techwriters.com

 


 

Date posted: Monday July 25, 2011
   
Company: Techwriters
   
Job title: Technical Writer for Heavy Equipment Manuals
   
Job location: Fremont, CA 94538
   
Contract or staff: Contract
   
Pay: $45./hr., W2
   
On site of off site: On site
   
Duration: six months
   
Degree: B.A., B.S., or higher
   
Major: Technical Writing, Mechanical Engineering, English
   
Skills, experience:

Technical writing, hardware equipment operation, troubleshooting, maintenance manuals, work in Technical Publications at Applied Materials, KLA-Tencor, Ultratech, or other semiconductor co.

   
Job description:

Join one other writer creating instructions and training materials for Chinese factory-floor workers who will operate machines that make large solar panels for power plants and cities.

Take digital photos, apply callouts in Word, write safety warnings, installation, operations, maintenance, troubleshooting directions. Write simple, direct, active steps for translation into Chinese.

The equipment (similar to large tools that make semiconductors) uses vacuum chambers, pneumatics, hydraulics, and robotics to move sheets of glass from one mfg. process to another. Study existing doc, make recommendations to improve it. Know Visio, Corel Draw or other graphics app., doc management systems.

   
How to apply: Upload your resume and samples of hardware, equipment use instructions here. Please include the city and state where you live on your resume.
   
Contact name: Dorothy Webster
   
Website: www.Techwriters.com

 


 

Date posted: Thursday June 30, 2011
   
Company: Techwriters
   
Job title: Technical Writer to Redesign, Rewrite Solar Panel Install Instructions
   
Job location: Campbell, CA 95008
   
Contract or staff: Contract
   
Pay: $38/hr.
   
On site of off site: On site
   
Duration: two months
   
Travel: No
   
Degree: B.A., B.S., or higher
   
Major: English, Mechanical Engineering, Technical Writing
   
Skills, experience:

Technical writing, end-user guides, Apple-type manuals, hardware, equipment assembly instructions using basic tools.

   
Job description:

Our client has a manual for brave homeowners and solar-energy contractors to follow, to install their panels, but they want to improve it, make it more standalone, self-sufficient, and painless.

So we need a tech writer who has written ’24-carat’ user instructions, and has the samples to prove it. Show us your sharp, crisp, lovely user guides you wrote (for Apple, for example), and we’ll put you in this fun job, reassessing, rethinking an approach for a homeowner who wants to take the plunge into solar.

Help this fine, household-name company now in the solar business. They want to do it right. Are you the right writer?

   
How to apply: Upload your resume and URLs of websites you wrote the content for here. Please include the city and state where you live on your resume.
   
Contact name: Dorothy Webster
   
Website: www.Techwriters.com

 


 

Date posted: Thursday June 9, 2011
   
Company: Techwriters
   
Job title: Technical Writer with InDesign for Med. Device Labels, User Instructions
   
Job location: San Jose, CA 95138
   
Contract or staff: Contract
   
Pay: $45/hr. W2
   
On site of off site: On site
   
Duration: three months, contract to staff
   
Travel: No
   
Degree: B.A., B.S., or higher
   
Major: Technical Writing, Nursing, other Medical
   
Skills, experience:

Technical, Medical writing, labels, inserts, package labels, InDesign

   
Job description:

Work as a beginner or intermediate Technical Writer at a medical device manufacturer. Update package labels, inserts, and user instructions using Adobe's InDesign. This company makes a wide range of patient-handling furniture, operating-room instruments, orthobiologics, and orthopedic devices.

   
How to apply: Upload your resume and URLs of websites you wrote the content for here. Please include the city and state where you live on your resume.
   
Contact name: Dorothy Webster
   
Website: www.Techwriters.com