Would you love to work for a fast-growing company with amazing perks and benefits including educational and professional development and a great Work-Life balance? Then Forward Slope wants you to join our team! We are a fast-paced global engineering company with a great reputation in the Department of Defense industry (DoD) for over 20 years.

 

Location:

San Diego/ Hybrid /Remote

• We are looking for candidates for different programs.

 

Job Description:

Forward Slope is seeking a fast-learning Technical Writer to provide documentation support for the Department of Defense (DoD).

 

This position entails identifying, creating, reviewing, editing, and formalizing technical documents that will be used by the program and its users. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a distributed team environment following Agile methodologies.

 

Responsibilities Include:

• Researching, documenting, and developing detailed operator, maintenance, and troubleshooting procedures, checklists, technical specifications, training materials, and other similar documents to become soft copy documentation and to live on knowledge management applications.
• Identifying, creating, reviewing, editing, and formalizing technical documents with requested specifications that will be used by various programs and stakeholders, including users, engineers, analysts, and sponsors.
• Ensuring that final documents communicate information and data clearly and effectively.
• Correcting technical and editorial errors and participate in rewrites as necessary.
• Working closely with team members and government clients to ensure documentation is effectively created, edited and then delivered on time to the clients consistently.
• Reviewing and/or editing content developed by other members of the team.

 

Required Qualifications:

• Technical Writer Experience: Minimum of three (3) years
• Experience working within a software development team following Agile methodologies
• Experience developing, editing, and formalizing technical and graphical documentation
• Expert knowledge and highly proficient with Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
• Must be proficient with creating and working on PDFs
• Be able to work well under high demands and adapt to deadline changes as well as technical requirements and agile schedules.
• Be organized while working with several documentation and communication tasking at once
• Can problem-solve independently while working and staying accountable to team members in different time zones
• High proficiency in communication skills, verbal and written

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Atlassian products, such as Confluence and Jira
• Experience with MS Teams and similar collaboration tools
• Expert level in Adobe Acrobat or PDF applications
• Expert level in knowledge management tools such as Confluence, SharePoint, or similar applications

 

Other Requirements:

Currently hold an active U.S. security clearance or be able to obtain one.

Pay Range: $38.50 - $45.00/hour

Job Type: Hourly

Why Join Forward Slope?

• Fast-paced global company with a great reputation in the DoD industry for over 20 years
• Telework option available
• Flexible working hours based on job needs
• Great and fun work culture
• Amazing benefits package for full time employees (including 90% employer contribution for employee medical benefits)
• 3 weeks of PTO a year
• 11 paid company holidays a year
• Team Building - Continuous appreciation events for our employees
• Education and Professional Development – programs to help you with your educational and professional growth!

Forward Slope is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

*The listed pay scale reflects the broad, minimum to maximum, pay scale for this position for the location for which it has been posted and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Other compensation considerations may include, but are not limited to, job responsibilities, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or other applicable factors.

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