Technical Writer

Mission

As a Technical Writer, you will join the Documentation team within the Innovation and Development department at our Belgian headquarters in Louvain-la-Neuve. You will generate and keep up-to-date high-quality technical documentation (Clinical User Guide, System Description, System Maintenance Accelerator Operator's Guide, Installation manuals, and others) related to Proton Therapy, RadioPharma, and Industrial Solutions activities.

Challenges we trust you with

You will perform an important role through a collaboration with a vast range of stakeholders within the organization, including but not limited to project engineers, architects, managers, scientists, and technicians to obtain a very good understanding of the products and the documentation requirements.

What we value

You have:

• A Master’s degree in engineering/sciences in electricity/electronics, electro-mechanical, biomedical, or physics 
• At least 3 years of experience in a technical position including a minimum of 1 year in technical writing
• Excellent command of English
• Ability to quickly grasp complex technical concepts and make them easily understandable in text and pictures according to the audience
• Good level of abstraction to understand and maintain the information architecture of the manuals
• Focus on reuse and single-sourcing opportunities
• Continuous improvement mindset regarding the processes and technical writing-related matters
• Critical thinking and curiosity
• Attention to editorial details
• Analytical mind and a holistic view of looking at situations
• Strong overall organization skills: able to plan efficiently and multi-task
• Great communication skills to facilitate day-to-day information exchange and foster trusting relationships with stakeholders
• Very good knowledge of the Microsoft Office package

Cherry on the cake

• You have proven writing skills, e.g., authored peer-reviewed articles 
• You speak French
• You have knowledge of Medical Device Regulations
• You have experience with Author-it and Adobe FrameMaker tools 
• You have experience with other authoring tools (Arbortext, Oxygen, etc)
• Knowledge of the breakdown of product and construction of the documentations structure
• Knowledge of structured authoring language (XML, sGML)