Senior Analyst, Technical Writer (onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-12-18

Country:

United States of America

Location:

HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

The Global Technical Solutions group, in partnership with the Environmental Effects Engineering team, at Collins Aerospace is a seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Lab Technical Writer to join our staff. This position will be responsible for supporting the dynamic day-to-day pre-qualification and qualification testing for products and sub-systems of moderate to high complexity. In this role, you will be an integral contributor working with a team of engineers to generate qualification test procedures and reports of Company products and programs for various military and commercial industry standards; particularly MIL-STD-461 and DO-160. You will lead all pre-testing documentation activities for assigned projects including the preparation of test plans and procedures, peer reviews, and the release process. During test events, you will ensure correct organization of equipment lists, set-up logs, measured data, and photos for the various tests. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to produce and release a complete test report.

The successful candidate will work closely with engineers, operations staff, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to produce, revise, and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including job plans, procedures, manuals, and engineering reports and simultaneously handle multiple projects and tasks.

What You Will Do:

• Develop, edit, and maintain Engineering documentation such as Qualification Test Procedures, Pre-Testing documentation, Engineering Reports, and Task Plans.

• Interface with program and lab engineers to generate/edit repeatable test documentation

• Validation of all test documentation to ensure compliance with applicable methods and standards

• Support of internal/external meetings

• Facilitate PREP reviews for program test documentation

• Maintain program schedules for documentation release

• Oversee the release of program documentation in Enovia

• Maintain and continuously update the department program documentation database

• Assist program and lab engineers with gathering, collecting, and organizing data for ad-hoc test evaluations

• Provide input on evolution of lab tools that affect your domain

• Communicate with external calibration houses regarding documentation needs

• Maintain SVN locations, export compliance and access

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 2 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required 

• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance 

• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel and Adobe

• Experience with PDM

• Experience with Enovia

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience working with PREP tool

• Experience with Microsoft Visio

• Experience with military aerospace testing standards is desired (DO-160; MIL-STD-461; MIL-STD-704)

What We Offer:

Some of our competitive benefits package includes:   

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance  

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees  

•Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option  

•Tuition reimbursement program 

•Student Loan Repayment Program  

•Life insurance and disability coverage  

•Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection 

•Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits 

•Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning  

•Adoption Assistance           

•Autism Benefit  

•Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions  

•Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program 

•Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits  

•Bright Horizons, child and elder