Senior Technical Author

Senior Technical Author

Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Senior Technical Author
Location: Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61380

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 Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Senior Technical Author, you’ll manage a team of Technical Authors responsible for authoring procedures required within the industrial teams to carry out operations and maintenance on the facility.

Day-to-day, you’ll be managing and coordinating a team of Technical Authors in the production of technical documentation.

• 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/contractual and legislative standards of nuclear safety and conventional health and safety are maintained when producing technical documentation.
• Producing documentation and performing quality checks on your own work and the work of your peers.
• Providing advice and guidance to project/production departments to support costing and planning analysis for ongoing work programming.
• Liaising with other departments as necessary to provide technical input/receive technical information.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working.

Essential experience of the Senior Technical Author

• Understanding/interpretation of 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 and experience working in a regulated environment.
• Appreciation, understanding, and experience of working in industrial areas and the associated hazards.
• Experience in the maintenance of facilities and equipment to support industrial activities both nuclear and non-nuclear.

Qualifications for the Senior Technical Author

• Level 4 in STEM Qualification.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This may affect your eligibility for certain roles based on your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK.

What We Offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance.
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+.
• Employee share scheme.
• Employee shopping savings portal.
• Payment of Professional Fees.
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave.
• Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or 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.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International
For over a century, Babcock has 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.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. 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.