To be clear, NO, I'm not looking for another job. Today is my 3 month anniversary - YAY ME!!! - and I'm 100% percent content to retire from this position. Seriously.
Besides, what the heck is in Beaverton, OR, that would compel me to leave Iowa?
Technical Writer -- Intermediate to Advanced (Hillsboro, OR)
compensation: competitive
employment type: part-time
Company Description
PTIGlobal is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon and provides translation, localization, and managed services for world-wide customers. With its mission to help clients turn globalization strategy into tangible revenues, PTIGlobal manages the conversion of software, web content, documentation, and mobile apps into targeted languages, offering end users a seamless experience and transparent functionality.
Job Description
We're looking for Intermediate to Advanced level Technical Writers. Ability to gather content through networking, interviewing or other means, and enjoys working close with peers and stakeholders to generate new topics, maps, and documents from 'scratch', and apply edits to source files to ensure content freshness and accuracy.You may be the single point of contact to ensure your project is planned and developed per schedule, and maintain that plan over program lifecycle. You may use scripting languages to create scripts to automate data processing. For any given project (documents, DITA topics etc) you may work with other contributors including authors, editors, or publishers to assist and drive delivery.
As an Intermediate or Advanced Technical Writer in our team, you will use authoring tools to edit for grammar, technical, usability, legal and production purposes. Use Adobe Acrobat Pro to initiate PDF Shared Reviews. You will need strong experience with Reposit processes, for both structured and unstructured document generation, and file management system(s) such as Sharepoint, Documentum and others. FrameMaker expertise is a must.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
Team players with a strong results orientation spirit and mentality, who can effectively communicate and work with business requirements, evaluate 'as-is' business processes and define efficient 'to-be' processes as related to product technical information planning, development, review, reposit, reuse, deliver and publish. Assist in training others when necessary (formally and informally) on tools, processes and content best methods.
These positions require strong technical authoring, editing, and reviewing skills. To be considered for these positions you must have strong, to expert level understanding and experience with:
· Reposit processes -- Structured and Unstructured.
· Document generation and file management system(s) such as Sharepoint and Documentum.
· Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) such as SDL Trisoft or others.
· Creating folders, templates, topics, and maps per industry specification.
· Working with datasheet, developer manual, reference manual, errata.
· Learning and applying style guides, templates.
· Editing for format, grammar, legal, corporate branding.
· Using authoring tools such as MS Word, Adobe FrameMaker to generate information sets such as PDF Books and Volumes or converting from one tool to another.
· Using manual and automated methods to convert text/tables/graphics content from applications such as MS Word and Adobe FrameMaker.
· Converting content from Word to FM.
· Using illustration tools such as MS Visio and others to create and/or modify technical illustrations.
· Generating outputs such as XML, HTML, CHM or other, and use rendering engines such as Antenna House.
Qualifications
A degree in Technical Communications, Journalism, and or English is preferred - with emphasis on Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. The successful candidate will have 5 or more years of relevant Technical Writing and project lead role experience. Special consideration will be given to those with semiconductor product development and associated specifications experience:
· Must have
o Microsoft Office, with emphasis on Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
o Adobe Acrobat Pro, Adobe FrameMaker preferably 10, 11,or 12
o PDF, XML, HTML, CHM
o Sharepoint, Documentum
o DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture)
o SDL Trisoft, Antenna House
· Preferred to have
o JustSystems XMetal
o FrameScript, Perl, Visual Basic
o Familiarity with semiconductor products or document types is a plus
Additional Information
Interested?
SEND A COVER LETTER AND RESUME.
• Location: Hillsboro OR
• This is a part-time position
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.
Please APPLY ONLINE at: http://tnij.com/qyyCy
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