Lead Technical Writer

Location: Bellevue,Washington,United States

TITLE:                  Lead Technical Writer

LOCATION:         Bellevue, WA, USA

TerraPower® is a nuclear energy technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At our core, we are working to raise living standards globally. The essential factor? Energy. In 2006, Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries decided that the private sector needed to take action. They believed that business interests could develop a scalable, sustainable, low-carbon and cost-competitive energy source that would allow all nations to quicken their pace of economic development and reduce poverty. TerraPower’s goal is to provide the world with a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy.

TerraPower, LLC was established to bring together the strengths and experience of the world’s public and private nuclear energy sectors to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors that would responsibly meet growing energy needs around the globe.  Its approach addresses the traditional shortcomings of nuclear power, in terms of safety, cost effectiveness, environmental soundness, and resistance to weapons proliferation.

TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development, and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape.  We are an equal opportunity employer.

Lead Technical Writer

TerraPower, LLC. is seeking a highly motivated Technical Writer.  The candidate is expected to be capable of understanding and communicating technical material to technical and non-technical audiences.  The candidate will have broad demonstrated experience writing documents such as training manuals, technical papers, white papers, processes and procedures.

The person in this role will write documents (conceptual and procedural-based writing) that describe the functionality of internal operational tools, systems, and processes; generate internal-user training content and self-service training materials; develop and disseminate technical information through intra-organizational channels; and work with subject-matter experts to improve TerraPower’s processes.

Additionally, as a Lead, this role may include distributing tasks, providing instruction and training to other Technical Writers matrixed within the organization,

Key Qualifications and Skills:

•         Minimum education: A bachelor’s degree in engineering, technical communication, writing, or English, OR a bachelor’s degree in a field of scientific research with demonstrated research writing skills;

•         Minimum experience: 4 years’ experience in technical and/or research writing in organizations adhering to 10 CFR 50 Appendix B requirements. 6+ years preferred.

•         Demonstrated ability to translate technical material into content for nontechnical readers;

•         Demonstrated successful writing and working in a collaborative team;

•         Experience with research, working with researchers, and/or writing scientific research articles;

•         Demonstrated aptitude to learn new technologies, the curiosity to figure out how things work, and a passion for improving the experience of end-users;

•         Demonstrated experience with engineering documentation and practices;

•         Demonstrated experience writing and following procedures for tests, experiments, equipment, safety documentation;

•         Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Office standard suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Project;

•         Demonstrated experience working with Record Management Systems;

•         Demonstrated experience writing high level technical communications for external release, presentations, and white papers;

•         Experience with Job Safety Analyses and/or Job Hazard Analyses a plus;

•         Ability to work with minimum direction to solve challenging problems;

•         The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trustworthiness and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.

Job Functions

Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position.  These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation.  Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations.  An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and