What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Writer position at ATR International?
Location: Northridge, CA / Remote
Employment Type: 6-month contract
Pay range: $20-23.60 / hour
Company Overview
Our client is a major medical technology company specializing in diabetes care.
Position Summary
Seeking an entry-level Technical Writer responsible for the assessment, development, and authoring of technical literature deliverables (e.g., Instructions for Use, labeling). The Technical Writer scopes, revises, and drafts a variety of patient-facing technical literature needed to support a broad medical device portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Develop of a working understanding of medical device products
- Work with required subject matter experts to align content changes
- Author new literature in the Component Content Management System
- Review literature to ensure compliance with all known requirements and departmental SOPs
- Collaborate with graphic design team on layouts, drawings, images, and branding needs
- Ensure all required approvals are obtained so literature can complete required technical review
- Proactively identify gaps and work with team members to determine responses Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.
- Creates, develops, plans, writes and edits operational, instructional, maintenance or test procedures for paper, multimedia, web-based publications and user sites; may produce content for embedded user assistance technology.
- Conducts interviews with various users and technical staff to gather data for documentation.
- Researches and translates technical information into manuals and/or web-based documents for nontechnical and technical users.
- May document engineering processes and specifications.
- Recommends formats responsive to technical and customer requirements.
- Produces products that conform to the company documentation and quality assurance standards.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree.
- 2 years of technical writing experience, or advanced degree with 0 years of experience.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience writing in a highly regulated environment.
- Experience writing patient-facing literature.
- Experience authoring in a Component Content Management System (CCMS).
- Medical device and/or patient-facing documentation experience.
Salary : $20 - $24