Technical Author / Technical Documentation Writer in Bristol

Job Title: Technical Author / Technical Documentation Writer

Location: Hybrid - Bristol, Stevenage, Bolton

Salary: up to £45,000 Depending on experience + benefits including Bonus, Pension contribution of up to 14%

Security Clearance : British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.

Omega is working with world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft with over 16,200 seats currently in service.

Our client, a global leading manufacturer at the forefront of weapons systems design, development, and deployment, is seeking a Product Cyber Security Officer.

The organisation develops Advanced Missile and Defence Systems, providing decisive national security capabilities to our Home Nations and strategic allies.

They're looking for a Technical Author to join their Technical Publications department within MBDA. The purpose of these roles are to analyse, develop and deliver the Technical Publications for a complex portfolio of MBDA's products across the Air, Land and Sea domains.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Authoring specialists to support and develop complex engineering descriptive and procedural documentation.
• Experience in technical authoring is essential. Use in particular of SGML is required but also the ability to adapt to other formats of authorship is desirable.
• You will need to be familiar in the use of S1000D based authoring tools, be aware of BREX (Business Rules Exchange) use and Guidance Documents, a CSDB (Common Source Data Base) environment and the associated reports.
• You need to be able to work with a variety of different types of people and will maintain a willing, helpful attitude and a calm professional manner.
• Provide technical expertise in ensuring design teams have a clear understanding of the publication development, production and upkeep process.
• You may be required to be involved in demonstration or process proving activities at an alternative MBDA site or the Customer's location, in the UK or overseas.
• Experience and a working knowledge of the military environment for operation and maintenance technical publications is preferable but not essential.
• Liaise with product suppliers in support of technical publication technologies whilst maintaining personal and technical reports, records etc. of all technical publication activities to a high standard.
• Willingness to travel within the UK and overseas.

For more information on this role, please contact Angelika Zaucha by sending a copy of your CV to

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