Technical Writer (Saudi National)

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Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Technical Writer (Saudi National) to join our team! In this role, you will collaborate with Project Managers, Technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and other team members to produce high-quality, compliant, and compelling documentation for transportation-related projects. You will be responsible for creating, editing, and refining technical content, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to project requirements.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Proofread and perform editorial functions, including formatting, stylesheet verification, copy editing, and production planning for technical documents.

• Ensure compliance of all assigned documents with required presentation standards, including correct use of paragraph headings, numbering, referencing of illustrative and tabular matter, and bibliographic styles.

• Ensure consistency in the application of technical abbreviations, acronyms, figure and table callouts, captions, and boilerplate materials.

• Compile and verify tables of contents, lists of figures and tables, references, and printer’s dummy. Mark copy to provide clear instructions for spacing, indentation, and corrections.

• Conduct research to support copywriting assignments and verify acronyms, terms, and technical details.

• Assist in developing drafts and revisions for reports, manuals, white papers, and other internal and external technical content.

• Work directly with project managers, engineers, and SMEs to review content, illustrations, and materials, recommending improvements for accuracy, clarity, consistency, and grammatical construction.

• Recast text as needed, subject to review by the author/requestor.

• Coordinate document production schedules with other technical writers, authors, and required resources, ensuring conformance to deadlines and specifications.

• Review and verify materials after reproduction to ensure conformance to the printer’s dummy.

• Serve as part of a functional team or work independently to complete assignments according to scheduled deadlines.

• Perform other responsibilities associated with this position, as appropriate.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or a related field.

• Minimum 5+ years of technical writing experience, with expertise in system documentation and process documentation.

• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on compliance with project and client requirements.

• Ability to interview SMEs to gather technical information and translate it into clear, concise documentation.

• Strong attention to detail, with expertise in reviewing documents for typographical, spelling, grammatical, punctuation, acronym callout, sentence structure, and active/passive voice issues.

• Comfortable collaborating with people from a variety of disciplines and asking questions to ensure understanding.

• Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask, supporting multiple projects and quickly shifting priorities.

• Experience with Office 365 (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and SharePoint.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information

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