Senior Technical Author Plymouth
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Job Title: Senior Technical Author Location: Plymouth Compensation: £39,408.00 Role Type: Full time / Role ID: SF51733 At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Technical Author at our Devonport site. The role As a Senior Technical Author, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary where you will be tasked with managing a team of Technical Authors who are responsible for authoring procedures required within the industrial teams to carry out operations and maintenance on the facility. Day to day, you'll oversee a team of Technical Authors who are responsible for delivering operating procedures for both maintenance and operations within the radioactive waste management organisation. You will be required to interpret the demand for each document and foresee the requirement for documentation for future projects or novel tasks. Managing a team of Technical Authors, ensuring enablement of activities within the integrated master schedule through the production of technical documentation Ensuring that strict mandatory / ual and legislative standards of nuclear safety and conventional health and safety are maintained when producing technical documentation You will be producing documentation and perform quality checking to your own work and the work of your peers You will provide advice and guidance to Project/Production departments to support with costing and planning analysis for on-going work programming Liaising with other departments as necessary to provide technical input/receive technical information Essential experience of the Senior Technical Author: Understand/interpret a variety of technical documents and drawings Ability to use a variety of sources of information to extract necessary and important data to populate procedures and operational documentation Understanding of/experience working in a regulated environment Appreciation/understanding of/experience working in industrial areas and the associated hazards Experience in maintenance of facilities and equipment to support industrial activities both nuclear and non-nuclear This role is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard full time. The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role. Our Benefits Generous holiday allowance Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance Employee share scheme Employee shopping savings portal Payment of Professional Fees Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity Babcock International For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. Closing date: 27/07/2023 Babcock
