Technical Writer
Company: ARA
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: January 26, 2023
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Job Description:
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is a progressive
research and development company with a 30+ year legacy of
providing innovative products and services to the government and
private sectors. The Algorithms, Modeling, and Assessments (AMA)
Division in Raleigh, NC has a unique opportunity for a Technical
Writer to play a vital role in preparing our teams' documentation
products and professional communications. You will help our
engineers and developers create compelling and compliant project
documents in response to our contract requirements.
This role will be embedded in the Nuclear Environments and Systems
Assessments (NESA) directorate of Applied Research Associates
(ARA). The project you will be working on documentation for is a
long-running software effort to deliver nuclear weapon effects
calculations from advanced physics-based computational models
deployed through standalone applications, web services, and Docker
containers
As a Technical Writer, you will lead the assembly of work products
such as monthly reports, yearly validation reports, and reviewing
technical documents produced by the staff. The teams you support
will look to you as a documentation expert. You will work with them
to collaboratively write and edit documents, and keep existing
content up to date. You will ensure your team's work products
clearly articulate technical attributes (e.g., development
approach, requirements, design, testing), program management
activities, risks, schedule, etc. You will be responsible for
document formats by enforcing a consistent look and feel among
documents, appropriate language use, classification (including CUI
or higher) compliance, and adherence to Microsoft style sheets.
To be successful, you must engage daily with technical staff,
project management, and subject matter experts, capture key
concepts and ideas, and write in the clear, concise, and persuasive
language. You must translate technical concepts into easily
understandable text and graphics.
Because we continuously seek to improve our processes, you must be
able to identify opportunities for improvement and advocate for
process changes when appropriate.
Our technical writers are expert users of a variety of software,
including Microsoft SharePoint and Office Suite, Atlassian
Confluence, Jira, Adobe Acrobat, and RoboHelp. Advanced knowledge
of Excel is especially helpful for project management support.
This position can be mainly performed remotely (-90%), but you do
need to be in the Raleigh, NC area to support classified work and
meetings. Expected travel is anticipated to be less than 1 week a
year.
Technical Writer Required Qualifications:
Technical Writer Preferred Skills:
Who is ARA?
Do you want to work for a purpose? Applied Research Associates,
Inc. (aka ARA) is an employee-owned international research and
engineering company. We have been providing technically superior
solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical
sciences since 1979. ARA has over 1,700 employee owners and
continues to grow rapidly. Together, our offices throughout the
U.S. and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in
defense, civil, and health technologies, computer software and
simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and
testing and measurement.
ARA also prides itself, on having a challenging culture where
innovation & experimentation are the norm. The motto, "Engineering
and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience.
Employee ownership ensures you have a voice with what happens in
the company. We are also very proud of our Women's Initiative
Network (WIN), whose purpose is to motivate, support, and encourage
professional career development for women to maximize career and
professional accomplishments.
To find out more about what the Algorithms, Modeling & Assessments
Division has to offer, visit our website at:
https://www.ara.com/benefits/
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner
discriminate against employees or applicants because they have
inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of
another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access
to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as
a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of
other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise
have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is
(a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance
of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an
investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the
contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR
60-1.35(c)
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