Technical Writer

Dometic is a global market leader in the mobile living industry. Millions of people around the world use Dometic products in outdoor, residential, and professional applications. We are on a journey of continuous growth – now looking for our next star – a passionate Technical Writer.

About the position

This role is Technical Writer in Technical Documentation function. This role reports into Head of Technical Documentation, with a dotted line report to Head of Process & Service R&D China.

Your main responsibilities

·The Technical Writer/Project Manager creates technical documentation for Dometic products and other Dometic brands. This technical documentation must be compliant according to various national and international laws, directives, regulations, and technical standards.

·The Technical Writer/Project Manager uses an Oxygen XML/DITA XML based authoring environment to create the technical documentation.

·The Technical Writer/Project Manager acts as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) towards the Product Managers and responsible persons in the factories for the management of all projects regarding technical documentation (internal and external documents).

·The Technical Writer/Project Manager secures up-to-date creation, translation, archiving and publication of technical documents (operating, installation, service manuals etc.). To achieve this, he/she creates technical documentation by himself/herself or authorizes service providers to do so.

·The Technical Writer/Project Manager will spend 75% on authoring tasks and 25% on QA, implementation and development of authoring guidelines.

·He/she monitors and follows-up on translations quality. He/she adapts processes and tools in the technical documentation to the latest technical developments.

·He/she develops layout guidelines and editorial guidelines for technical documentation. He/she supervises the observance of layout guidelines and editorial guidelines.

·He/she develops and monitors a consistent terminology.

What do we offer?

You are offered an interesting role in a dynamic, fast paced and global environment with great opportunities to grow and take on new challenges. The growth at Dometic is continuous – which gives you great possibilities to evolve with the company.

A suitable background would be a solid experience within Technical Writing and Project Management – as well as the following qualifications and experiences:
• Takes responsibility, working independently and responsibly, excellent communication skills, problem awareness, creativity, addicted to transparency, shares knowledge.

To be successful in this role, we believe that you possess the following skills, competencies & characteristics:

• The Technical Writer/Project Manager knows the applicable technical standards, directives and laws and researches new ones that apply to Dometic products.
• He/she uses Oxygen XML/DITA for creating the technical documentation and uses modern terminology management tools.
• He/she should have worked in a technical documentation department before. Technical Writing Bachelor of Engineering/Arts or similar qualification, at least English Level B2, CET-6 or other equivalent level.
• He/she creates, edits and proof-reads technical documentation with Oxygen XML/DITA XML from draft to print.
• It would be advantageous if he/she has experiences of automated content delivery (DocOps) or continuous deployment (CD).
• It would be advantageous if he/she has experiences in terminology management.
• It would be advantageous if he/she has experience with XML programming with XSLT.
• It would be advantageous if he/she has experience with Adobe InDesign or Adobe FrameMaker.

Dometic's Core Values

To thrive and succeed in this role, you understand the importance of our core values – Together We build our future, We play to win, We embrace change and We walk the talk; these values reflect the heart and soul of Dometic and they define what it takes to work here and how we do things.

Are you our next star? Then we would love to see your application. Selection is being made on a running basis. If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Taylor Xu at taylor.xu@dometic.com.