Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

In fast changing markets, customers worldwide rely on Thales. Thales is a business where brilliant people from all over the world come together to share ideas and inspire each other. In aerospace, transportation, defence, security and space, our architects design innovative solutions that make our tomorrow's possible.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across the major industries of Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Technical Author           

Crawley

As a Technical Author you will be working within the Through Life Support Engineering (TSE) team and undertake Technical Publications / Authoring activities to customers requirements, within own competence, without day-to-day guidance or supervision, in a professional manner. In accordance with relevant specifications, standards and Thales (Chorus II) and documentation processes.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks

• Make Technical Publications/Authoring decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.

• Fulfil the operating, maintenance and support requirements agreed with the customer. The information must be clearly and unambiguously presented, in a manner appropriate to the level of skill, experience and technical understanding of the users and maintainers of the equipment.  It thus contributes to the customer’s ultimate objective of improving the success rate of maintenance and reducing the lifecycle cost of ownership of equipment.

• Close liaison with all aspects of engineering through the interaction with engineering personnel / interrogation of contributory engineering database. It will involve the research and origination of new and amended textual data for a wide range of equipment and maintenance activities.

• Compile data, to a variety of national / international /civil / military specifications and produce physical/electronic deliverables.

• Provide help and direction to less experienced team members.

• Manage own elements of Technical Publications /Authoring work package.

• Take responsibility for contributing to team planning, risk management, quality and HSE.

• Set targets for and manage own development with line manager. Seek & share good practice & knowledge to continuously improve own practices.

• Manage work packages

• Supervise and coach less experienced members of the team and apprentices

Skills and experience

• Technical Authoring

• Strong proficiency within standard Microsoft office packages/Authoring tools

• Excellent standard of written and spoken  English

• Engineering knowledge/experience

• Good understanding of engineering standards and processes.

• Ability to turn technical information into easily understood text

• Supervisory

• Engineering Product Lifecycle

• Technical Authoring in an engineering environment

• Writing in a structured environment (eg XML to S1000D, Common Source Data Base, HTML, DITA)

One of the following:

• Degree

• HND,

• BTEC qualified in engineering science with some engineering experience

• City and Guilds qualified in engineering science with some engineering experience.

What We Can Offer

We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.

Flexibility

Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

This role will require SC Clearance. It would be advantageous if currently held, however, if not currently held, it is a requirement that the successful applicant will undergo, achieve, and maintain SC Clearance.  Please visit the UKSV website for further guidance.

To be eligible for full SC, you generally need to have resided in the UK for the last 5 years.  In some circumstances, a minimum of 3 years’ residence in the UK over the last 5 years may be accepted, with additional overseas checks.

For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the National Security Vetting (NSV) Agency - United Kingdom Security Vetting - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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