Technical Writer Oil & Gas and Marine

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As a member of an international team working on automation, electrification and digitalization solutions, and within an editorial team, your responsibility is to produce technical documentation of one or more products, with the Siemens Energy quality. During your day you’ll process technical documents using CCMS or Latex-based solutions. You will handle all the inherent complexities of a such systems, creating and updating document type definitions and style templates, based on SE guidelines. You will apply information architectures and standards to facilitate information transfers from knowledge bases and ensure high reuse of templates and content. Most of the times you’ll see yourself crafting and maintaining documents, by constantly creating, importing, updating, revising and organizing the technical content, and tailoring each document to the target audience. For that you’ll adopt a highly efficient workflow, leveraging the CCMS capabilities, using AI tools for quick reviews and improvements, applying international standards, as well as your customer-oriented writing skills and technical expertise for the perfect final touch, eventually consulting technical experts for accuracy. All of that for documents in paper-based and online formats. Documentation is becoming modern and interactive, so you will play an important role ensuring the best user experience for our customers and end users in all media formats.

Your new role – challenging and future-oriented:

• Deliver pristine reader-friendly technical documents in English: error free, grammatically and syntactically correct; writing style tailored to the target audience; content is logic, coherent, and accurate, in the right quantity, with the right amount of contest and structured from general to the detail
• CCMS / Latex specialist: handles all the complexities in document creation / editing
• Handles paper-based and digital based documentation
• Document quality inspection observes standards and ensures content is on point
• Revise technical content for an entire document or just changes (‘deltas’) with focus on
• terminology and style 
• Implements document type definitions and style templates in editorial tools
• Support setup of CCMS or Latex based editorial solutions
• Support management of editorial processes: manage reviews and archiving of content
• components
• Devise and test basic user flows and storyboards for the user journey through product documentation 
• Import multimedia and other types of content from engineering applications (Autodesk, Siemens NX, EPlan, COMOS), directly or by using middleware or APIs 
• Translation assistance: translation previews with AI; manages peer support for translations; reimport translations
• Communicate with authors, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders for clarifying
• and addressing content-related issues.

We don’t need superheroes, just super minds:

• University degree in IT, computer science, engineering, or similar education
• Minimum of 3 years writing technical documentation, preferably 5
• Proven writing and editing skills in English:
• organizes information logically and systematically
• proper grammar, syntax and style
• adapt language to suit the understanding level of the target audience
• digest complex information and break it down into understandable parts
• attention to detail: spot inconsistencies, and inaccuracies in content
• provide context as needed
• Customer and end user oriented: notions of User Experience and best practices for
• technical content media (paper and digital). 
• Familiarity with style guidelines and document type definitions, and experience
• implementing them in editorial tools, for paper and online formats
• Technical knowledge and experience in tools:
• CCMS solutions such as COSIMA and Schema ST4
• Latex solutions
• XML-based architectures and Markup languages (XML, DITA, or Markdown)
• Version control systems such as Git
• Basic scripting, to handle information transfer through APIs
• Basic media editing for quick fixes: raster and vector graphics, audio, video
• Other software for inspections and fixes: pdf editors, Excel
• Export settings on known CAD applications
• Using AI tools for content review
• Knowledge and experience using documentation related standards:
• ISO/IEC/IEEE 26511, IEC/IEEE 26514, ISO/IEC 82079-1, ISO/IEC 18019, ASD-
• STE100 (Simplified Technical English) 
• CCMS standards such as ISO/IEC 26531
• General experience in technical domains: automation systems, software development
• Preferably experienced in:
• DCS (Distributed Control Systems), PCS (Process Control Systems), PCS 7 and /
• or TIA Knowledge, PMS (power management systems) OR
• Information-dense dashboard-style applications for analysis of real-time and
• historical data, such as Omnivise.
• Experience working in international development teams
• Experience working in agile environments and good knowledge of agile processes
• Experience with task management and tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, Asana)
• Personal:
• Proactive and continuous learner
• Highly organized and systematic
• Ability to handle complexity
• Communicative, and collaborative
• Can take constructive criticism, appreciates feedback on own work .

We’ve got quite a lot to offer. How about you?

This role is based at Site (Gurgaon). You’ll also get to visit other locations in India and beyond, so you’ll need to go where this journey takes you. In return, you’ll get the chance to work with teams impacting entire cities, countries – and the shape of things to come.

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