About Wood-Mizer

Wood-Mizer is the world's largest manufacturer of portable sawmills, with over 100,000 mills sold in more than 100 countries. Wood-Mizer provides forestry and timber professionals around the world with a complete line of narrowband portable and industrial sawmills, wideband sawmilling equipment, resaws, edgers, kilns, molders/planers, firewood processing equipment, pallet recycling equipment, material handling equipment, bandsaw blades, and blade maintenance equipment.

Our Culture and Values

Wood-Mizer is dedicated to customer and employee-owner success, putting compassion and faith at the heart of the business, and committing to providing high-quality equipment that makes a positive difference in people's lives. Wood-Mizer is a 100% employee-owned company that believes every mill owner is an extension of our Wood-Mizer family - a philosophy that makes both our customers and employee-owners feel at ease.

What Makes Wood-Mizer Stand-Out

Wood-Mizer believes that investing in people is an investment in the future. As a result, we provide a variety of benefits to ensure that our employees-owners are healthy and happy so that we can all grow, learn, and innovate together.

• Equity: Through our ESOP, you can become a 100% owner and receive Wood-Mizer stock (Employee Stock Ownership Plan).
• Retirement: Matching funds in a 401k.
• Bonuses: Discretionary Bonus available monthly.
• Pay Options: We provide several methods for receiving biweekly payments, as well as the option for Wages On-Demand, which allows you to receive earned wages on a daily basis.
• Paid Time Off: PTO accrual begins with the first paycheck, with immediate eligibility for paid holidays, personal marriage, birth/adoption, and other events.
• FREE Health Care Access: We provide FREE access to Wood-Mizer’s Health Care Clinics by Marathon Health if you are covered by our health insurance.
• Insurance: Health, dental, vision, life insurance paid by the company, supplemental life insurance, and short- and long-term disability are all available.
• Workplace Giving Programs: Employee-owners who serve the community/those in need through monetary donations and hands-on work are eligible for a variety of benefits.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Wood-Mizer offers a generous tuition reimbursement program to help you achieve your long-term career goals.
• Annual Allowances: Employee-owners receive reimbursement for the cost of their own safety boots and safety glasses. Each year, they are also given money to spend on Wood-Mizer apparel and swag.
• Other Rewards: Companywide celebrations, company outings, complimentary coffee stations and fruit, gift cards for your birthday and anniversary, referral reward program, discounted shipping rate, and much more!

A Brief Overview

The key role of a Wood-Mizer Technical Writer is to produce and maintain high-quality documentation that contributes to the overall success of our products. You will join a team of talented technical communicators who work collaboratively with product development engineers, manufacturing, product managers, marketing, sales, customer service, and usability experts to make our products easier to use, all while upholding the integrity of Wood-Mizer's core values.

Locations

Hybrid

What you will do

• Develop Operation, Safety, Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Parts instruction manuals for new product released.
• Update technical documentation based on engineering change notices (ECNs).
• Create assembly and installation instructions for product upgrades, kits, service bulletins, etc.
• Develop line art graphics from CAD models, including exploded views.
• Develop saleable replacement parts lists with input from product development engineers, customer service, and usability experts.
• Monitor and maintain online technical documentation webpages.
• Coordinate and collaborate with other technical writers at our world-wide facilities.
• Collaborate with peer departments based on requests.

Education Qualifications

• Associate's Degree in Communication, Technology, Engineering or a related field Req Or
• Bachelor's Degree in Communication, Technology, Engineering or a related field Pref

Skills and Abilities

• Attention to detail.
• Comfortable interacting with people with cultural and educational differences.
• Ability to write effective and easy to understand instructions based on mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems.
• Ability to track down information that may be scattered between departments or personnel.
• Ability to navigate through server/file systems and maintain file location protocol.
• Bonus: Knowledge of HTML, XML, structured FrameMaker, DITA, VBA, or FrameScript
• Bonus: Knowledge of the industries Wood-Mizer serves.
• Adobe Frame Maker
• Adobe Suite
• PTC Creo Parametric
• PTC Creo Illustrate
• CorelDRAW Graphics Suite
• Microsoft Office 365
• Bonus: AutoCAD, Photoshop, Video editing
• Proficient computer skills

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Professional Technical Communicator (STC) Preferred

If you want a career, not just a job, apply today and learn how Wood-Mizer employee-owners are making a difference around the world!

Wood-Mizer offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and job applicants and prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment, regardless of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.