Arcfield Overview:
Arcfield was purpose-built to relentlessly protect the nation and its allies from today’s national security threats. We have nearly 70 years of proven expertise and excel in space superiority, hypersonic defense and nuclear deterrence, digital transformation, and surface and undersea warfare domains. Our solution areas include space mission engineering, atmospheric science, digital engineering, mission assurance, and advances in modeling and simulation that together with our enterprise-wide adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, lead to better systems and timely, reliable decision-making. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA with 18 North American offices, Arcfield employs 2,200 engineers, scientists, analysts, IT specialists and other professionals who challenge the status quo to deliver an efficient technological advantage to our national security and defense partners.
Responsibilities:
Arcfield is looking for an aspiring, enthusiastic Technical Writer to support a dynamic team providing systems engineering and software development support for critical submarine systems for the U.S. Navy. If you're passionate about producing useful technical content with an engineering team, leveraging cutting-edge tools, and making a significant impact, this is the opportunity for you.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support the writing, rewriting, and editing of documents in response to upcoming deliverables and customer reviews.
- Edit draft content by reviewing for completeness, accuracy, clarity, brevity, correct language use, compliance, consistency, flow, tone, organization, and alignment with specified style guide(s).
- Manage all documentation versions including centralization, configuration management, and master document lists.
- Provide media content management within Confluence, SharePoint, and other team-related sites.
- Support model-based document auto-generation setup and content maintenance.
- Collection and preparation of Weekly and Monthly Status Reports.
- Support technical meetings and various reviews through preparation of meeting materials, recording/distribution of meeting minutes and action items.
- Coordination and scheduling of all formal contract documentation deliverables.
- Collaborate with technical leads and subject matter experts to formulate long-term improvement plans and update technical content.
- Assist with documenting, maintaining, and using internal documentation processes.
- Contribute to and benefit from maintaining a collaborative environment - expanding skills and mentoring others.
Qualifications:
Position Requirements:
- HS 3-4
- Minimum of 2-3 years of experience writing, updating, and maintaining technical systems documentation for a team
- Demonstrate exceptional technical writing skills, with the ability to draft, edit, and refine reports, summaries, presentations, and other technical documentation
- Strong Microsoft Word and PowerPoint skills
- Experience with Confluence and/or similar Wiki tools
- Ability to quickly learn new software, tools, and technical concepts
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance within one year of employment
Additional Skills of Interest:
- Familiarity integrating graphics into documents
- Demonstrated experience and willingness to be a technical writer and editor when producing content
- Experience with Microsoft Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, including using document collaboration and content management / authoring tools
- Experience providing technical writing, particularly submarine-related systems, for Federal Government, specifically U.S. Navy
- Understanding of Government contracts, CDRLs, and Data Item Descriptions (DIDs)
- Experience with process improvement methods, practices, and procedures
- Experience in an Agile-driven, Scrum team-centric development environment
Equal Pay Act:
This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.
Min: $46,012.92
Max: $80,676.00
EEO Statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.