Technical Writer

Company: TriStaff Group of Companies
Location: Carlsbad
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

6 months+ long contract positionLocation: CarlsbadRate: $25 to $30 per hour

The Technical writer position is responsible for documentation of processes and specifications utilized in the Operations department. They will work closely with Manufacturing, Quality Control/Assurance, Research & Development, Engineering and Logistics teams to translate processes into approved internal documents. They will author and revise internal documents and identify areas of improvement. In addition, this role is responsible for the scheduling and resource management of incoming and ongoing projects for the technical writing team. This position supervises part-time and contractor level employees.

RESPONSIBILITIES:Job performance will involve a variety of activities including:

• Understand processes from both the perspective of the user and the quality system.
• Translate the needs of the user into functional process documents while maintaining compliance with regulatory and quality requirements.
• Project management of documentation revisions.
• Author and revise documentation.
• Assist in documentation hierarchical organization.
• Work across departments to ensure needs are met and that input is incorporated in documentation
• Maintain global tracking of documents within the technical writing team.
• Assess new requests for level of effort and time/resource allocation.
• Assign projects/tasks out to technical writing team for timely completion.
• Point of contact cross-functionally for status of documentation projects.
• Supervise contract and part-time technical writers.
• Create and execute training and onboarding of new technical writing staff.
• Track to and adhere to regulations, standards and guidances that govern the processes documented within the Operations department umbrella (e.g., 21 CFR 820, ISO13485, etc.)
  
  EXPERIENCE:
  • 3+ years of technical or scientific writing experience
  • Experience managing multiple projects, resources, and/or teams.
  • Experience in cGMP and ISO9001 environments preferred
  • Must have demonstrated expertise in authoring SOPs or similar process directed documentation
  • Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat
  • Flowcharting software (preferred)

Keywords: TriStaff Group of Companies, San Diego , Technical Writer, IT / Software / Systems , Carlsbad, California