TECHNICAL WRITER
Company: Wood-Mizer Products
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: May 6, 2024
Job Description:
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 PrefSkills 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 skillsLicenses 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. Compensation details: 0 Yearly
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