Location : Chennai
Budget : As per market
Technical Editor
Educational Qualification: Bachelors/Masters in English or Physics with a strong flair for technology.
Experience: 10+ years of professional experience, with at least 4 years as a Technical Editor.
Note: Prior experience as a Technical Editor is mandatory.
Job Description
Work with project leadership to schedule and track editing milestones, and ensure that the documentation is developed, edited, and delivered according to the established schedule.
Perform substantive copyedits and production edits to help produce highquality product documentation. Edit content quickly and independently.
Edit change order text fields (this would be the major part of the job).
Be familiar with MSTP and KLA-Tencor Style Guide. Enforce grammar and style conventions accordingly.
Collaborate with technical writers to provide meaningful feedback in a sensitive manner.
Develop and maintain departmental and product linespecific style guides, and create and maintain corresponding writing/editing checklists as appropriate.
Maintain copyright statements and other front matter.
Recommend process improvements pertaining to writing and/or editing that are subsequently implemented by the team with proven positive results.
Develop and deliver training and mentorship to writers based on metrics derived from various writing and editing cycles.
Help ensure the production of superiorquality product documentation quickly and efficiently, with minimal need for full edit cycles.
Recommend and drive process improvements that are subsequently implemented by the writing team with proven positive results.