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Technical Writer
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Intermediate Technical Writer for hybrid role in Toronto. Create and maintain technical documentation, translate complex concepts, and develop presentations.
About the role
- Senior Technical Writer responsible for revising Canadian Forces Technical Orders at Thales. Collaborates across teams to ensure clarity and compliance in technical documentation.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and revise existing CFTOs, incorporating updates from OEM manuals, specifications, and preventive maintenance routines.
- Author, edit, and format technical documentation with a high standard of grammar, clarity, consistency, and style.
- Perform editorial reviews of technical documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency of terminology, and compliance with editorial and formatting standards.
- Collaborate with LCMMs, engineers, procurement, and configuration management teams to ensure technical documentation reflects the latest approved system/equipment configuration.
- Support configuration control by analyzing Document Change Requests, preparing Change Packages, and ensuring revisions are properly tracked, reviewed, and implemented.
- Conduct thorough research and cross-referencing to confirm documentation accuracy and completeness.
- Coordinate verification and validation of CFTO updates and associated technical data packages.
- Ensure preventive maintenance routines in Logistics Support Analysis Records (LSARs) remain aligned with current technical publications.
- Manage indexing, cataloguing, and control of documentation in alignment with the National Defence Index of Documentation and Equipment Registration processes.
- Support translation processes and accuracy checks for CFTO updates when required.
Requirements
- Canadian citizenship with a valid Secret Level II security clearance (or ability to obtain).
- Diploma or degree from a recognized college/university in a relevant technical field (mechanical, electrical, electronic, naval architecture, computer science, or equivalent).
- Minimum 4 years of demonstrated experience maintaining or revising technical documentation such as CFTOs, OEM manuals, equipment specifications, or preventive maintenance documentation.
- Direct experience with configuration management principles, tools, and processes, including change control, revision tracking, and version management.
- Proven editorial, grammar, proofreading, and editing skills, with the ability to produce polished, high-quality documentation.
- Proficiency in requirement gathering, analysis, and documentation procedures.
- Strong proficiency in word processing and documentation management tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Language: English (Essential), French (Desirable).
Benefits
- Company paid Extended Health, Dental, HSA, Life, AD&D, Short-term Disability, Cancer Care Program, travel insurance, Employee Assistance Plan and Well-Being program.
- Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP, DCPP, TFSA) with a company contribution and a match to a DCPP, with no vesting period.
- Company paid holidays, vacation days, and paid sick leave.
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, Critical Illness, Long-Term Disability.
- Employee Discounts on home, auto, and gym membership.
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