Technical Writer

As a Technical Writer, you will join the Documentation team within the Innovation and Development department at our client located in Louvain-la-Neuve. You will generate and keep up-to-date high-quality technical documentation (Medical User Guide, System Description, System Maintenance Accelerator Operator's Guide, Installation manuals, and others).

Your role

You will perform an important role through a collaboration with a vast range of stakeholders within the organization, including but not limited to project engineers, architects, managers, scientists, and technicians to obtain a very good understanding of the products and the documentation requirements.

Your skills:

• Master’s degree in engineering/sciences in electricity/electronics, electro-mechanical, biomedical, or physics
• At least 2 years of experience as a Technical Writer (or Scientific Writer)
• Excellent command of English;
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures according to the audience
• Good level of abstraction to understand and maintain the information architecture of the manuals
• Focus on reuse and single-sourcing opportunities
• Continuous improvement mindset regarding the processes and technical writing-related matters
• Critical thinking and curiosity
• Attention to editorial details
• Analytical mind and a holistic view of looking at situations
• Strong overall organization skills: able to plan efficiently and multi-task
• Great communication skills to facilitate day-to-day information exchange and foster trusting relationships with stakeholders
• Very good knowledge of the Microsoft Office package

Additional skills:

• You have proven writing skills, e.g., authored peer-reviewed articles
• You speak French
• You have knowledge of Medical Device Regulations
• You have experience with Author-it and Adobe FrameMaker tools
• You have experience with other authoring tools (Arbortext, Oxygen)
• Knowledge of the breakdown of product and construction of the documentations structure
• Knowledge of structured authoring language (XML, sGML)