Morson Talent are currently recruiting for a Publication development specialist to work on the behalf of one of our prestigious clients based in Fareham. This is a contract role for 12 months, with possibility of extension.
Our clients currently employs over 2,100 people in the UK. They are responsible for delivering several exciting contracts to our UK defence customers including new capabilities like the E-7 AEW&C and the P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Autonomous Systems, C4ISR Services, Support for the Chinook & Apache Fleets, Logistic Information Services and Training Services and are very much in a growth phase.
Our clients engineering function operates a matrix organisation consisting of engineering departments that deliver technical skills, expertise and products into our programmes. This role will be in the Product Support Engineering Department. The Department consists of the following technical areas:
Reliability Centered Maintenance Analysis
Reliability and Maintainability
Logistic Support Analysis
Engineering Data Exploitation
Obsolescence Management
Technical Publications
Product Support Engineering.
You will help to facilitate and implement Product improvement and maintenance of the CH47 Air System Document Set whilst remaining compliant with the appropriate MAA regulatory standards. There may be a requirement to support other platforms on an occasional basis to meet surge requirements. This position will report to the Technical Publications Manager based in Yeovil but will be required to be based at RAF Gosport, on a hybrid working pattern. This position will be technically supported by our other capability specialists within the department as required.
Our client is looking for Aviation Technical Publications Development/Authoring Specialist. The role will comprise of; organizes, reviews and edits technical publications, documentation, and related data. You will be required to gather and analyse customer requirements to understand scope and required elements.
Position overview:
Our client has a requirement to support a range of Technical Publications supporting the platform with both the provision of Aircraft Maintenance Manuals and Component Maintenance Manuals. This position will execute against contract requirements with a Safety and First Time Quality mind-set working within an integrated team environment.
Job Description Qualifications:
The job role will encompass supporting the Publications Lead in the day to day execution of the UK CH-47 publications deliverables to meet contract requirements associated with publication discrepancy reports (MoD F765), generation of amendments and updates to the UK CH-47 Air System Document Set, review technical support publications for grammatical errors, format and style per guidelines. You will contribute to establishing standards and guidelines for technical document structure and format and recommend content edits to improve clarity, impact, flow, meaning, and readability. You will also be required to research source data to verify that support publications are technically accurate. Participate in reviews internally and with the customer. Maintain document configuration, data files, and archives.
The successful candidate will support the Publications Lead to ensure First Time Quality is applied to all publication updates and they comply with quality management system requirements. This post may be required to interface between the customer and other key stakeholders in the absence of the publications lead, therefore good communication skills are essential.
This post requires an understanding of the MoD Unsatisfactory Feature Reporting (UFR) process (MoD F765), aircraft and component maintenance procedures. The role will; gather / analyze customer requirements, research and compile source technical information to underpin and assess requests for change in accordance with documented processes. The publication specialist will determine graphic and authoring requirements and develop detailed estimates and work sheets for integration into the applicable documents..
The post will also require the individual to demonstrate ability for multi-tasking in a diverse teaming environment. Prior aviation maintenance experience is desirable and occasional travel may be required.
Key skills required for the post:
Conversant with ASD S1000D and or AVP70.
Experience of working with Simplified Technical English.
An understanding of Support Engineering as applied to a maintenance environment.
Ability to work with cross functional departments to understand and deliver required outputs compliant with organisational processes and procedures.
Focus on delivering first time quality with attention to detail and alignment with supporting engineering documentation.
Experience Required:
Previous experience in the Aviation Technical Publication (CMM, AMM, EMM, IPC) Authoring environment is essential.
Previous experience with MoD Form 765 processes desirable.
Previous experience liaising with internationally located Teams, including Design Organization (DO) interface.
Preferred but not essential, CH-47 Chinook or rotary wing publications authoring experience.
Experience with creating graphics would be desired but not essential.
If this position is of interest to you, please apply below or contact Alex for more information.
01935 403208 or Alex.Ruttermorson.com