Technical Writer

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⛰️ Colorado, Florida, +4 more states – Remote

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💵 $65.2k - $105.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔏 Technical Writer

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Fairwinds Technologies

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

🎖️ Defense

Consulting • Manufacturing • Defense

Fairwinds Technologies is a small, woman-owned defense-focused communications and systems-integration company based in Annapolis, Maryland. It designs, integrates, and delivers mission-ready communications, networking, and information-technology solutions — including satellite/NTN, radio, and networking products — for U. S. defense, government and commercial customers, combining professional services with proprietary products to keep users connected in harsh and contested environments.

📋 Description

• Develop, edit, maintain, and publish technical manuals, operation manuals, maintenance manuals, installation guides, deployment instructions, training materials, engineering documentation, and product support documentation • Create and maintain technical publications supporting system operation, troubleshooting, preventive and corrective maintenance, fault isolation, software updates, and hardware replacement activities • Develop and manage Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETP) utilizing Markdown-based publishing tools and approved customer delivery platforms • Produce formal contract deliverables including project management plans, quality assurance plans, configuration management plans, integrated product support plans, status reports, acceptance reports, and sustainment documentation • Collaborate with engineering teams to create and maintain requirements traceability matrices, system architecture documentation, interface descriptions, compliance documentation, and design review materials • Develop integrated product support documentation including reliability reports, FMECA documentation, provisioning data, obsolescence reporting, and PHST documentation • Support development of training plans, instructor guides, student guides, lesson plans, training presentations, examinations, and knowledge transfer materials • Develop and maintain cybersecurity documentation, including incident management plans, operating procedures, accreditation packages, security testing documentation, and compliance reports • Support document review, approval, revision control, baseline management, and engineering change activities • Conduct quality reviews to ensure technical accuracy, consistency, formatting compliance, and customer acceptance readiness • Manage document repositories, document classification, revision histories, publishing workflows, and deliverable schedules • Work directly with subject matter experts, engineers, logisticians, trainers, and customer representatives to ensure documentation accuracy and completeness

🎯 Requirements

• Active Secret Security Clearance required at time of employment • Must be eligible to work in the US • Associate’s degree in Technical Communication, English, Journalism, Communications, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related discipline • Equivalent military or defense-industry technical writing experience may be considered in lieu of formal education • Minimum of 8 years of professional technical writing experience • Experience supporting defense, aerospace, SATCOM, telecommunications, engineering, logistics, sustainment, or government programs • Demonstrated experience producing complex technical and engineering documentation • Experience working directly with engineers, technical subject matter experts, and multidisciplinary project teams • Experience supporting documentation through review, approval, publication, and configuration-control processes • Experience managing document repositories and version-controlled documentation environments

🏖️ Benefits

• Additional incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package • Medical benefits • Financial benefits • Other benefits • Equal Opportunity Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity

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