Technical Documentation Specialist
Description
Mini-Circuits’ sells its products to over 20,000 customers globally through our direct sales force, applications engineering staff, sales representatives, as well as through our extensive website.
The Technical Documentation Specialist creates and updates technical data sheets for Mini-Circuits’ portfolio of RF & microwave electronic products. This role will be responsible for preparing all technical datasheet content including product descriptions, spec tables, images, drawings and data plots using Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop and publishing finished assets into Mini-Circuits’ documentation system.
Salary Range: $20.00 - 30.00 per hour
- Design layouts for technical datasheets for new products based on content inputs from various product line engineering groups.
- Update legacy datasheets based on markups from ongoing documentation audit.
- Check all work for quality, accuracy and fidelity to engineering sources.
- Edit and retouch product images, drawings and other assets as needed for documentation.
- Communicate with project stakeholders in engineering for clarification as needed.
- Monitor and facilitate project review with engineering in cloud-based collaborative editing platform.
- Generate engineering change orders (ECO’s) for datasheet documentation and publish approved versions in PLM system.
The duties, responsibilities and expectations described above are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks that may be assigned within the scope of the position.
- Associates, Bachelor’s or equivalent training in graphic design, illustration, technical writing or similar discipline.
- 1-3 years’ experience developing product documentation or similar content in a design production environment.
- Mastery of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro.
- Strong proficiency in MS Word®, PowerPoint®, Excel® .
- Comfortable collaborating with partners from a wide range of backgrounds and skillsets including marketing, design, engineering.
- Outstanding written, spoken and visual communication skills.
- Demonstrated success leading complex projects from end to end.
- Sharp eye for detail.
- Creative, resourceful, and open-minded.
- High standards of personal and professional integrity.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit and use hands to operate a computer keyboard. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Additional Requirements/Skills:
- Comply, understand, and support corporate safety initiatives to ensure a safe work environment.
- Ability and willingness to abide by Company’s Code of Conduct.
Disclaimer: The listed qualifications and requirements for each position are intended as guidelines. Mini-Circuits reserves the right to hire outside of these guidelines at Management’s discretion.
Mini-Circuits is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived age, race, creed, color, national origin, sexual orientation, military status, sex, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, marital status, familial status, gender identity, gender dysphoria, pregnancy-related condition, and domestic violence victim status or protected class characteristic, or any other protected characteristic as established by federal or state law.