Technical Author

Salary: £40,000 - 45,000 per year

Requirements:

• An interest in technical writing within an engineering or software environment.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• The ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly and concisely.
• Strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for collaborating with colleagues across teams and locations.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• A positive attitude towards feedback and continuous improvement.
• An interest in multilingual content and localisation processes.
• Experience creating technical documentation or user assistance content.
• Experience working with software development teams or engineering products.
• Knowledge of structured authoring, content reuse, or modern documentation practices.

Responsibilities:

• Create, edit, and maintain user-facing documentation, including Help systems, release notes, datasheets, and supporting technical content.
• Apply best-practice authoring techniques to develop topic-based, modular, and reusable content.
• Structure and organise documentation to meet the needs of various user groups.
• Collaborate with product owners, subject matter experts, support teams, and software developers to ensure that content is accurate, complete, and easy to understand.
• Follow and contribute to documentation standards, style guides, terminology, and processes.
• Review and advise on user-facing text within software applications.
• Manage localisation activities, including localisation engineering processes and language pack verification.
• Manage a varied workload across multiple projects.
• Work effectively with subject matter experts through strong interviewing and information-gathering skills.
• Develop awareness of current trends and best practices in technical communication.

Technologies:

• Support

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We are based in Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, with hybrid working and a minimum of three days per week on-site. We offer a collaborative and supportive working environment, opportunities for professional development and career growth, and a competitive salary and benefits package. Our role gives you the opportunity to help shape the user experience of our Intelligent Metrology software portfolio, MODUS IM, a suite of inspection software applications used by programmers, operators, data analysts, and automation engineers across a range of manufacturing and metrology environments. We also offer a wide benefits package including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, subsidised onsite restaurants and coffee shops, free parking, a car sharing scheme, 24-hour fitness centres at some sites, variable working, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, cycle to work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, a health cash plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva), and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.

last updated 39 week of 2026