Vacancies

We are currently recruiting for the following roles. If you think you fit the bill, please contact us:

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Technical Authoring Assistant

USE* is currently looking to recruit a Technical Authoring Assistant for a position based in the West Midlands and UK South East.

Key responsibilities include:

• providing support to the Owner Literature Information Author and Service Communications Author whilst also supporting the Parts and Workshop Manual team with minor responsibilities and reactive work. This support will vary and level of support to each work stream is fluid


• the main responsibilities for Owner Literature Author support will include, raw handbook pagination, translation content management, part number release and tracking, service duplicate owner guide creation and tracking, file storage housekeeping and tracking, information gathering support, sign off tracking and reporting, reporting to author and team lead weekly


• the main responsibilities for Service Communications Author support will include, information gathering, support of core and non core communications, translation content management, technical illustration creation - the minor responsibilities for Parts Cataloguing and Workshop Manual will include ERN analysis and allocation to the parts team and illustration annotation and information gathering for the Workshop manual team.
 

This position can support experienced technical authors, or equally graduate candidates looking to build up skills and expertise in technical authoring or automotive business sectors. We will be considering applicants for this role against the following criteria:

• liaison with Product Development as appropriate to determine Service level requirements and offer design options and suggestions, and to ensure Service Parts requirements are clearly defined, as well as understood, in Product Development many months prior to the formal preparation of parts-related aftermarket documentation;


• previous experience in a technical authoring position will an advantage; so will experience of working with technical publications content;


• very strong IT skills are a requirement. You need to demonstrate extensive experience and comfort working with a range of applications running in a Windows environment as well as advanced skills relating to the use and application of Microsoft Excel; - working flexibly is essential, as this role is to support multiple workstreams the workload can change from week to week;


• previous experience of pagination using Framemaker;


• the ability to produce excellent written English is essential — all documentation is prepared in English;


• familiarity with cars, ideally from the perspective of workshop experience and interaction, is a distinct advantage;


• demonstrating organisational and project management skills will help: you will need to be organised because managing deliverables and accountability relating to their delivery is fundamental to this role;


• communication and customer facing skills are important. All of our Authors work directly with our customers. A tenacious and can do approach to our (and their) business is imperative;


• ambition: we want you to be an active participant in a team focused on the quick development of skills that will enable USE* to grow as a business and as a team. 

Starting salary and supporting benefits are very competitive and you will be working within an engaging and supportive team environment which places clear focus on your needs and aspirations. 





Workshop Manual Technical Author


We are presently seeking a Workshop Manual Technical Author initially to be based with a prestigious OEM in the West Midlands, but flexibility in terms of work location will be essential since we have a range of projects in different locations that will need to be supported.

This opportunity is a perfect entry level role for graduate engineers looking to find a way into the automotive industry working with household name OEM’s and an established tier 1 supplier with a proven track record in developing our employees’ careers.

Key responsibilities include:

• analysing and documenting repair processes using CAD data and SRTD (Service Repair Time Database)


• liaising as necessary with SST (Special Service Tool) developers, upstream service co- ordinators, engineers and After Sales personnel to properly scope a given repair method


• time each service repair procedure using a selection of synthetic time elements


• once the method has been derived, use image manipulation software to annotate CAD images showing each step of the procedure. These are then uploaded to SRTD where they can be aligned with correct steps


• on the rare occasions where it is not possible to generate a procedure digitally then the author may be required to conduct a trial on a pre-production vehicle to make sure that methods are accurate and timed correctly
 

We are looking for intelligent, proactive individuals with good IT skills and first-hand experience of automotive workshop repairs, ideally as a dealer technician. We will be considering applicants for this role against the following criteria:

• Hands on vehicle workshop experience is key. Workshop Manual authoring in essence involves replicating workshop service operations in a digital engineering environment. Having a feel for realistic work parameters in service operations is a must;


• Excellent communication and customer facing skills are essential. All of our engineers work directly with our customers. A tenacious and can do approach to our (and their) business is imperative;


• Excellent computer skills are important and experience of working in the 3D digital environment is helpful. Use of CAD and CAD visualisation tools are an important part of the day-to-day role of a Workshop Manual Technical Author, but we do offer training in these areas;


• First class organisational and project management skills; you will need to be organised because in time your responsibilities will include understanding and implementing how your work will interact with a vehicle programme’s product development lifecycle;


• Ambition: we want you to be an active participant in a team focused on the quick development of skills that will enable CADIT UK to grow as a business and as a team. 

Starting salary and supporting benefits are very competitive and you will be working within an engaging and supportive team environment which places clear focus on your needs and aspirations.