Technical Author

Technical Author – Southampton – Permanent – £20,000-£21,000

Navis Consulting have an exciting opportunity with a world leader in the technical maritime industry for a Technical Author. The main function of this role is to be responsible to the Head of Technical Publications in providing quality, accuracy and development of Technical Publications.

Responsibilities to include:

• Maintain existing Technical Publications’ product content to ensure it is up to date with national and international maritime legislation

• Assist with the development of new Technical Publications’ products and content

• Involvement in stakeholder discussions around the management, development and implementation of new and existing Technical Publications’ products

• Provide support to colleagues and customers with regard to products

• Undertake quality assurance of harvested product media

• Any other related tasks deemed necessary by line management

Qualifications / Experience Required:

• Awareness of the maritime regulatory regime for ships, large yachts and ports around the world

• Awareness of web development, content management systems and basic HTML, or the ability to develop own knowledge through internal training

• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively with team members and independently when required

• Some ability in customer support

• Comfortable with following protocols and procedures

• Able to pay extremely close attention to detail, specifically when auditing accuracy of own work

• Able to plan and prioritise own workload effectively

• IT literate with commonly used office IT systems, particularly MS Office packages

• Able to follow company Health and Safety and quality management guidelines in the workplace

Navis is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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