Technical Writer - Flight and Maintenance Manuals

Overview

This position is for a full-time direct Technical Writer with COMAC (Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China). The applicant must have experience in technical authoring of aircraft maintenance and/or flight manuals with a major aircraft manufacturer. Position is based in Shanghai and total comp package to include negotiated housing, travel allowance and benefits commensurate with experience.

Responsibilities

Job Description

DUTIES WILL INCLUDE

• Candidate will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of aircraft flight manuals and associated documentation including but not limited to supplements, check lists, quick reference handbooks, weight& balance.

REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

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Minimum 3 years experience as a technical author writing aircraft technical documentation to the ASD S1000D and iSpec 2200 specification.

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Experienced in the creation and maintenance of airplane flight manuals and associated documentation including but not limited to supplements, check lists, quick reference handbooks, weight& balance.

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Experienced with the creation and manipulation of complex Ms word, adobe frame maker and arbortext editor documentation working knowledge of the ASD S1000D specification within a common source data base(CSDB)environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited university.
• Four (4) years of additional Technical Writing experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Experience with multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, PowerPoint, and Visio etc.
• Experience developing aircraft user manuals, training manuals, and other documentation utilized by the end-user community

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Experience interpreting engineering and maintenance drawings, operational procedures to understand and blend large quantities of data

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Experience researching highly technical subject matter, organized information from multiple sources, and expressed technical information in written form that is comprehensible to a wide audience of readers