Technical Publication Writer

To learn more about CAE Binghamton, our open positions and the Binghamton community, please visit our website at CAE Binghamton. 

Put your passion to work and propel yourself towards success. 

Welcome to CAE! We are excited to become a part of your professional journey and to help you discover a career that aligns with your values, experience, expertise, and aspirations! As a leader in the defense and security industry, CAE’s team is passionate about simulation and training and developing the most sophisticated solutions to help our defense and security customers prepare for mission success. With our people at the very heart of our organization, driving innovation and new technologies, we are committed to providing a work environment for employees in which they can thrive and one that values professional growth, teamwork, and engagement. 

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, civil aviation, and healthcare by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

As a Technical Writer you will work independently to develop, write, and edit material for reports, maintenance manuals, user manuals, instructor operator handbooks, training documentation, and related technical documentation. 

Primary responsibilities of the Technical Writer are as follows: 

• Assist in preparing and maintaining operations documentation, user guides and manuals and technical publications 

• Understand basic concepts (to include basic grammar concepts), responsible for writing technical content for various types of documents 

• Maintain a current internal documentation library  

• Use multiple word processing and presentation tools such as MS Word, Interleaf Quicksilver and Adobe Framemaker  

• Work with engineers to produce quality documentation and training materials 

• Work on all phases of documentation 

• Understand basic concepts and write technical content for various types of documents for a program/project of similar complexity 

• Prepare reports, responses, and briefings targeted to a wide range of audiences 

• Coordinate layout and design of documents 

• Produce technical documentation, user manuals, training manuals, and other documentation utilized by the end-user community of DoD electronic equipment and systems 

• Work with engineers and other technical personnel to develop and verify technical content. 

• Provide editing and formatting support of Engineering documentation. 

• Participate in peer reviews of documentation developed by colleagues.  

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor degree or equivalent experience (Technical or Professional Writing, English, or Communications) 

• Experience in technical editing and writing and have strong writing and editing skills, including ability to manipulate usage and grammar. 

• Experienced in querying authors for clarity and compliance purposes and must be skilled in Microsoft Word, MS excel, and PowerPoint.  

• Must have an active DoD Secret or higher clearance that has been granted or renewed in the last 5 years. 

• Must be able to obtain and maintain Special Program Access prior to the start of employment. 

• Flexibility to support occasional overtime, weekend work, shift work and site travel (CONUS) 

• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• History of collaboration in small teams with different organizations. 

• Experienced with configuration management, electrical and mechanical knowledge. 

• Ability to identify and possibly work around limited engineering data and understand hardware drawings.. 

• Technical Writing experience within the aerospace and defense industry  

• Working knowledge of PTC Arbortext Editor, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw 

Security Responsibilities  

Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures. Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form. Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval. All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.  

•  Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.  

Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.  

Salary Range: $77,000 to $85,500 

Please note: The actual compensation rate is subject to the evaluation of the following factors (but not limited to): the candidate's work experience, qualifications, skills, internal equity, and market. 

Other Duties  

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.  

CAE USA Inc. is an EOE/AA employer and gives consideration for employment to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. If you’d like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click here Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal.  

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.