Description:
As an Associate Engineer - Technical Author, you’ll be a member of a team of Technical Authors, provisioning of high-quality publications to support those installing, modifying, operating, maintaining, repairing and removing equipment.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide internal and external customers with support documentation in accordance with Technical Publications procedures, Military Aviation Authority (MAA) publications MAM-P, MAM-D and S1000D/ATA iSpec 2200, which will enable them to safely and efficiently install, test, operate, maintain, repair and remove equipment for installations and modifications
Your responsibilities will include:
- Military Aircraft: Making sure that the work produced meets customers’ specifications, Airworthiness requirements and publications standards of the MAA, MAM-P / MAM-D & Defence Guide for Technical Documentation
- Civil Aircraft: Making sure that the work produced meets customers’ specifications, Airworthiness requirements and publications standards of the CAA, S1000D & ATA iSpec 2200
- Planning and prioritising own work, with guidance, to meet customers’ requirements
- Make sure that the work meets customers’ specifications, airworthiness requirements and publications standards
- Assessing compliance with MAA MAM-P & MAM-D and associated Regulatory Articles
- Assessing compliance with Civil Aviation standards (S1000D or ATA iSpec 2200)
Essential experience of the Associate Engineer - Technical Author:
- Qualified aircraft engineer or mechanical engineer or an equivalent level of know-how gained through experience
- A general knowledge of aircraft equipment, systems and documentation
- Competence in the use of Microsoft Word and Adobe FrameMaker to an advanced level
- Competence in the use of S1000D authoring tools and CSDB operations
- Competence in the use of a graphics package such as CorelDraw, for the manipulation of bitmap and vector graphics
Essential qualifications for the Associate Engineer - Technical Author:
- C&G or ONC/HNC in an appropriate technical subject or be able to demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge gained from an aircraft engineering environment
- City and Guilds or equivalent in Technical Authoring