Technical Document Writing

Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Experience: 5–10 Years
Industry: Nuclear, Defense & Engineering

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Technical Writer to develop, review, maintain, and manage technical and procedural documentation within a regulated engineering environment. The ideal candidate will have strong technical writing, document control, document conversion, revision management, and quality assurance skills.

The role involves collaborating with engineering teams and document owners to produce accurate, consistent, and professionally formatted documentation while maintaining document traceability, access controls, approvals, and revision history.

Experience supporting nuclear or defense programs and working with export-controlled technical documentation is highly desirable.

Primary Skills

• Technical Writing and Editing,
• Nuclear and Defense Engineering Documentation,
• Technical Document Management,
• Procedural Document Creation and Maintenance
• Document Control and Revision Management
• Document Conversion and Formatting
• Document Review and Approval Workflows
• Quality Assurance and Compliance
• Document Issuance and Distribution
• Technical Content Validation

Secondary Skills

• Document Indexing and Version Control,
• Source File and Access Management,
• Obsolescence and Supersedure Management,
• Periodic Document Adequacy Reviews,
• Acronym and Requirements Management
• Workflow and Forms Administration
• User Access Group Management
• Documentation Process Automation
• Technical Data Analytics and Reporting
• First Pass Yield and Defect Trend Analysis
• Backlog and Throughput Reporting
• Change Request Tracking

Key Responsibilities

Technical Writing and Editing

• Attend project briefings and technical meetings to understand documentation requirements.
• Review and edit text-based technical documents in accordance with applicable engineering processes.
• Collaborate with document owners, subject matter experts, and content creators to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, and professional presentation.
• Recommend improvements to document structure, formatting, terminology, and readability.
• Complete documentation tasks using designated systems, tools, and information-sharing platforms.

Procedural Documentation

• Create, review, and maintain procedural documents in accordance with established standards.
• Coordinate document identification, review requests, comments, approval, issuance, and communication.
• Incorporate reviewer feedback and ensure documents follow approved processes.
• Maintain accurate records of document status and revisions.

Document Conversion and Control

• Convert documents between formats and manage conversions across different document revisions.
• Maintain document indexes, source files, access permissions, and revision histories.
• Track superseded and obsolete documents and ensure appropriate status updates.
• Coordinate document reviews, approvals, issuance, and distribution.
• Conduct periodic adequacy reviews of procedures, guides, and supporting documentation.

Supporting Documentation Management

• Create and review supporting product, project, and business documents.
• Manage identification, formatting, editing, review, approval, and distribution activities.
• Maintain document traceability and ensure compliance with established document management processes.
• Develop and maintain lists of acronyms, terminology, and requirements used in technical documents.

Tools and Workflow Support

• Support access to documentation tools required for project execution.
• Maintain user access groups, forms, and document workflows.
• Identify opportunities to improve documentation processes through automation.
• Help ensure documentation systems support efficient review and approval cycles.

Data Analytics and Reporting

• Prepare weekly documentation performance reports by project and deliverable type.
• Track planned versus actual delivery and requested versus completed work.
• Monitor on-time delivery, backlog, throughput, and quality metrics.
• Analyze first-pass yield, defect trends, change requests, and recurring quality issues.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to improve documentation quality and delivery performance.

Required Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in technical writing, engineering documentation, or document management.
• Experience creating, reviewing, editing, and maintaining technical and procedural documents.
• Knowledge of document control, revision tracking, approval workflows, and document distribution.
• Experience converting documents between formats and managing different revisions.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain document accuracy and traceability.
• Experience coordinating with technical teams, subject matter experts, and document owners.
• Strong written communication, organization, and quality assurance skills.
• Experience with documentation reporting, metrics, and process improvement.
• Experience with nuclear, defense, or other regulated engineering documentation is highly desirable.