The Technical Writer at Philips is responsible for creating high-quality technical documentation, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to established writing standards. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather and clarify complex technical information, producing user manuals, guides, and specifications. The writer will draft, review, and edit content to align with project guidelines and stakeholder feedback, working under direct supervision to maintain consistency and quality in all documentation.

Must Have

• Adhere to established writing standards and organizational protocols
• Work with cross-functional teams to gather information and clarify technical content
• Draft clear and concise technical documents (user manuals, guides, specifications)
• Review technical content for grammar, structure, and coherence
• Complete assigned writing tasks within defined timelines
• Support senior technical writers in document preparation and formatting
• Utilize content management tools and systems (e.g., ST4)
• Implement revisions and updates to existing documentation
• Ensure documentation meets company branding and technical standards
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Technical Writing
• Proficiency in MS Word, SnagIT, Content Management System like ST4, XML editor like X-Metal, Visio, Image Editing tools like Photoshop, Structured documentation tools like Frame Maker, Arbor Text Editor
• Knowledge of STE (Simplified Technical English), Style Guides like MSTP & CSTP

Job Title

Technical Writer

Job Description

Technical Writer

The Technical Writer is responsible for creating high-quality technical documentation, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and adherence to established writing standards, working under direct supervision. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams, gathers and clarifies complex technical information to produce user manuals, guides, and specifications. The role helps in drafting, reviewing, and editing content to ensure it aligns with project guidelines and stakeholder feedback.

Your role:

• Adheres to established writing standards and organizational protocols to ensure consistency and quality in all technical documentation, working under direct supervision.
• Works with cross-functional teams to gather information and clarify technical content, ensuring accurate and comprehensive documentation.
• Drafts clear and concise technical documents, such as user manuals, guides, and specifications, under the supervision of senior team members.
• Reviews technical content for grammar, structure, and coherence, ensuring alignment with project guidelines and feedback from stakeholders.
• Completes assigned writing tasks within defined timelines, meeting project deadlines while maintaining high-quality output.
• Supports senior technical writers in the preparation and formatting of documents, ensuring compliance with document management systems.
• Utilizes content management tools and systems to organize, track, and maintain versions of technical documentation.
• Implements revisions and updates to existing documentation based on feedback from internal and external reviewers.
• Identifies potential issues in documentation processes and suggest improvements to enhance workflow efficiency and document quality.
• Ensures that all documentation produced meets the company’s branding and technical standards before release.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in areas such as Technical Writing or equivalent.

Tools knowledge required:

• MS Word
• SnagIT
• Content Management System like ST4
• XML editor like X-Metal
• Visio
• Image Editing tools like Photoshop
• Structured documentation tools like Frame Maker, Arbor Text Editor

Skills:

STE (Simplified Technical English), Style Guides like MSTP & CSTP

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office-based role.

About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.

To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.

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