• Technical Writing Supervisor

    TAD PGS, Inc. (Minneapolis, MN)


    We have an outstanding career opportunity for aTechnical Writing Supervisorto join a leading Company located in theMinneapolis, MNsurrounding area.

     

    Salary: $100,000 - $115,000

    Responsibilities :

    + Request Management

    + Oversee the end-to-end prioritization and management of technical documentation projects, ensuring alignment with Engineering, Product Management, Program Management, Services, and Content Operations objectives.

    + Determine priorities based on business value and urgent needs.

    + Workload Planning and Sequencing

    + Assess and manage the technical writing team's capacity.

    + Sequence projects thoughtfully to prevent team overload.

    + Negotiate deadlines with requesters and validate achievability with team members.

    + Process and Quality Improvement

    + Continuously seek process efficiencies and productivity gains. Work to standardize and simplify where possible.

    + Promote and uphold standards for high-quality documentation.

    + Decisive when addressing trade-offs between schedule, quality, and scope.

    + Team Collaboration and Support

    + Coordinate with various teams to understand their documentation needs.

    + Ensure writers have the required tools, resources, and knowledge.

    + Hold regular one-on-ones with team members to discuss active work, clear roadblocks, and encourage personal development.

    + Lead team meetings, preparing agenda and focused topics as needed.

    + Promote the use of best practices within the team.

    + Encourage collaboration across teams and strengthen connections with key stakeholders.

    + Team Development and Culture

    + Act as an ambassador for team culture (LCI: culture, continuous improvement, inclusion).

    + Support career growth for team members, ensuring alignment with individual development goals.

    + Advocate equally for the team and the customer, ensuring customer needs are prioritized in documentation.

    + Foster open, honest, and trustworthy communication.

    Basic Hiring Criteria :

    + Bachelor's degree in communications, business, engineering, or other related fields.

    + Minimum 5 years of experience in a technical environment, preferably with mechanical and electrical systems.

    + Minimum 3 years of experience leading or mentoring teams.

    + Proactive, with the ability to drive a sense of urgency appropriately.

    + Outcome-focused and customer-centric.

    + Strong, clear, transparent communication skills; checks for understanding.

    + Able to motivate and energize the team, promoting positivity and continuous improvement.

    + Approachable and trustworthy leader, fostering open communication.

    + Effective cross-functional collaborator, comfortable working with multiple teams.

    + Experienced in negotiating and coordinating deadlines and workload.

    + Ability to learn new tools/software and understand how they interact with other systems.

    Desired Qualifications :

    + Experience with creating and managing technical content.

    + Understanding of technical writing authoring tools and structured authoring.

    + Understanding of component content management systems (CCMS).

    + Understanding of content strategy.

     

    Benefits offered to vary by the contract. Depending on your temporary assignment, benefits may include direct deposit, free career counseling services, 401(k), select paid holidays, short-term disability insurance, skills training, employee referral bonus, affordable medical coverage plan, and DailyPay (in some locations). For a full description of benefits available to you, be sure to talk with your recruiter.

     

    Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

     

    VEVRAA Federal Contractor / Request Priority Protected Veteran Referrals / Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled

     

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    The Company will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and/or security clearance requirements, including, as applicable:

    + The California Fair Chance Act

    + Los Angeles City Fair Chance Ordinance

    + Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers

    + San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance