Technical writer

GE Vernova’s Digital Business

Oslo, Norway

Why you should apply for a job to GE Vernova’s Digital Business:

  • We offer 10 weeks parental leave, $10k adoption assistance, Dependent Daycare FSA, and a moms-on-the-move milk ship program
  • We prioritize women's development through coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship programs for women at all levels.
  • A culture of continuous improvement: Employee listening, inclusion and diversity training, and actionable solutions.
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    Position summary

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    • Analyze complex technical systems and software and fill any gaps in existing documentation.

    • Obtain appropriate information from subject matter experts and establish reproducible methods for generating clear and concise documentation in accordance with professional standards.

    • Establish and evaluate effective document presentation methods.

    • Actively participate in daily Scrum stand-up meetings, weekly planning and review meetings.

    • Ensure the product documentation produced by the team is of high quality and is presentable to our customers.

    • Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in technical writing to enhance content delivery.

    Required qualifications:

    Technical:

    • Strong skills in editing (QA for documentation) - ability to recognize errors and opportunities for developmental improvement in a variety of information deliverables.

    • Strong skills at researching and leveraging information architecture principles to create a content structure that supports a wide variety of information types and deliverables.

    • Clear understanding of Lean/Agile/XP software development processes, their application to projects, and how to drive information development in these processes.

    • Strong understanding of the major aspects of software design, development, and QA and ability to leverage this understanding to inform planning and execution for information development projects.

    • Knowledge of core technical communication concepts, such as topic-based authoring, minimalism, task-oriented design, single-sourcing.

    • Outstanding ability to define and research user profiles and to create content targeted appropriately to meet user goals.

    Business:

    • Strong domain and product knowledge, including appropriate terminology, with a clear understanding of product line(s) and offerings, competitive landscapes and associated industries.

    • Excellent skills in the process of breaking down software processes into tasks necessary to the targeted user and effectively explaining those tasks to the user.

    • Ability to drive increased efficiency across the teams, eliminating duplication, leveraging product and technology reuse.

    • Excellent project management skills/ ability to lead a writing project: ability to coordinate work of other writers, accurately estimate scope and time, create and work to deadlines, take multiple variables (including other functional areas) into account when setting a schedule.

    Personal Attributes:

    • Superior ability to collaborate with subject matter experts.

    • Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.

    • Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.

    • Champions an innovative spirit within the business and is constantly looking for new and better ways to do things.

    • Constantly thinking critically about the task at hand and maintaining an understanding of the problem in the bigger picture.

    • Effectively manages risk and weighs the pros and cons of important decisions that affect multiple team members.

    Additional Job D escription

    Additional Information

    Compensation Grade

    LPB2

    Relocation Assistance Provided: No

    Why you should apply for a job to GE Vernova’s Digital Business:

  • We offer 10 weeks parental leave, $10k adoption assistance, Dependent Daycare FSA, and a moms-on-the-move milk ship program
  • We prioritize women's development through coaching, mentoring, and sponsorship programs for women at all levels.
  • A culture of continuous improvement: Employee listening, inclusion and diversity training, and actionable solutions.