Technical Author

Company: Renishaw plc
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Location: Bradley
Job Description:

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

More:

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.

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Posted: October 5th, 2026