Technical Writer

**Technical Writer (Permanent)**:

- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA, B3B 1E6 Ottawa, ON, CA, K1P 5E7 Victoria, British Columbia, CA, V8Z 0B9- Onsite or Hybrid:
**Technical Writer (Permanent)**

**Halifax, NS / Ottawa, ON / Victoria, BC**

Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, asset management, and specialist training, Babcock International works with customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability, and availability of their most critical assets within the key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear.

In Canada, Babcock works in the Marine sector, where our teams provide critical and complex support to Canada’s submarine fleet. Our Canadian team is proud to be trusted to deliver key naval in-service support for the Royal Canadian Navy. We also operate in the Aviation sector, where Babcock ensures that the aircrew trainees of our partner nations receive the world’s best flying training. We deliver vital aerial emergency services and are proud to have been selected by the Government of Manitoba to deliver their wildfire suppression services, as well as key components of their critical air ambulance services.

Whether it is providing technical training instruction, developing training materials or maintaining critical training assets, Babcock is trusted by its customers to deliver world-class training solutions.

Babcock’s Purpose is to **create a safe and secure world, together**. Our Principles create the foundation for how we will do this. They keep us on the right course, unify the way we work and guide us towards success. By thinking, connecting, and acting in line with these Principles, we’ll deliver better outcomes for our Culture, Customers and Communities. Collectively at Babcock, our employees embody the Principles that help make us great at what we do:

- Challenge the status quo, **Be Curious**, and ask, ‘how might we?’
- Whenever measuring success, **Think: Outcomes** and positive impacts.
- **Be Kind** to ourselves, each other, and our planet.
- Babcock employees **Collaborate** - we are greater than the sum of our parts,
- **Be Courageous** - be brave, ambitious, and determined.
- Everyone has a part to play -** Own** and **Deliver** to be successful.
- In this role, you will:_
- Provide Technical Writing support to the VISSC program by:

- Supporting written content with visual elements. Design effective visual information including the textual, spatial, and graphic elements that support the rhetorical situation to maximize communication impact through assessing and redesigning online and print elements.
- Producing large publications that focus on visual layout and emphasize automatic formatting features that create structured documents.
- Creating different kinds of online and print documents such as engineering reports, business reports, proposals, formal letters, etc.
- Provide Technical Editing support to the VISSC program by:

- Coordinating the production of all VISSC program documents such as deliverables (including detailed study reports, etc.), proposals, and letters.
- Provide Document Management support to the VISSC program by:

- Carrying out document and records management (electronic filing and archiving) including control of electronic document and drawing files.
- Registering and capturing documents in the document management systems - including Babcock, Client, or any relevant Subcontractors documentation.
- Allocating Babcock and Client document numbering systems.
- Ensuring all deliverables required for handover to the Client are stored during the project or interim delivery at agreed stages.
- Issuing of controlled documentation as required on projects.
- Circulating documents for review, information, and acceptance, etc.
- Reviewing document formats and adherence to checking and approval processes for signatures.
- Supporting the development of good practise processes and instructions, and evaluation and re-design of applicable processes for increased efficiency and improved results.
- Maintaining a central repository of model technical documents, update databases, and contribute to the continuous improvement and consistency of communications resources.
- Supporting the Document Control and PMO shared inboxes.
- Provide daily/weekly and monthly status reports.
- Complete other duties as necessary.
- A Technical Writing program certificate from an accredited college or university program. Further, you possess a Technical (preferred) diploma or degree and 1-3 years’ experience. Equivalent professional experience/combined education, along with specialized training commensurate with the role will be considered.
- Experience with authoring tools (i.e. Adobe Acrobat Pro, etc.) in the creation of online and print documents.
- Fluency in MS Word, MS Outlook, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
- Skills working in a self-directed manner in a team environment, including personal workload management (organizing and pr