Technical Writer, Relays

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🔏 Technical Writer

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Littelfuse

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1927

🚘 Automotive

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Automotive • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Littelfuse is a diversified industrial technology manufacturing company that focuses on empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. It offers innovative products to enhance the safety and efficiency of rechargeable lithium batteries in various applications, including smartphones, power tools, electric vehicles, and renewable energy systems such as wind and solar farms. Littelfuse provides advanced solutions for electrification and battery operation of off-highway vehicles and specializes in battery temperature monitoring devices for EVs. Recognized for its positive impact on environmental, social, and ethical standards, Littelfuse is also a leader in arc-flash protection and offers products like metal oxide varistors, silicon carbide MOSFETs, and battery fuses, serving markets such as automotive, industrial, and alternative energy systems.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain datasheets, product manuals, user guides, installation instructions, white papers, and other customer-facing technical content. • Collaborate directly with product development engineers and application engineers to translate technical designs, specifications, and functionality into clear documentation for end users, distributors, and internal stakeholders. • Work with product management to align documentation with product positioning, release timelines, and customer needs. • Interpret engineering drawings, schematics, and test data accurately in written materials. • Maintain document version control, templates, and style consistency across the documentation portfolio. • Support new product introduction (NPI) processes by delivering documentation on schedule alongside engineering milestones. • Identify opportunities to streamline the documentation process — evaluating and implementing new authoring tools, templates, automation, or AI-assisted workflows to reduce cycle time and improve document quality. • Review and edit technical content produced by engineers for clarity, accuracy, and consistency with company style standards. • Manage documentation within a document control system, following established numbering and revision conventions.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Technical Writing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. • 3+ years of technical writing experience in an engineering or manufacturing environment. • Demonstrated experience writing documentation for products in at least one of the following domains (required): Electrical power systems, Electrical safety products (e.g., protective relays, monitoring devices), Electronics systems. • Proven ability to work cross-functionally with engineers and product managers to gather and clarify technical information. • Strong command of technical writing fundamentals: clarity, structure, audience awareness, and consistency. • Self-motivated, with a track record of proactively identifying and implementing process or tooling improvements to increase documentation productivity. • Proficiency with standard documentation and publishing tools (e.g., Microsoft Office/365, Adobe FrameMaker or similar, PDF authoring tools).

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits • Performance-based incentives • Flexible work arrangements • Development opportunities