Technical Writer- Perrigo

Perrigo Company is dedicated to making lives better by bringing Quality, Affordable Self-care products that consumers trust everywhere they are sold.  Help us do it.

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Description Overview

Primary Responsibilities
The Technical Writer works within the Operations department where direction and assistance are provided by the PWS Lead and Training Manager. As a Technical Writer, you will utilize stakeholders to understand processes to capture knowledge and recreate this information into many different forms of documentation including how-to guides, troubleshooting guides, one-point lessons, and standard operating procedures (SOPs) to help strengthen continual training within the organization. In this role, you will build knowledge within the entire manufacturing process as well as the maintenance department and Quality procedures.

This will be a Monday - Friday position with a tentative schedule of 8am - 4:30pm. 

Hourly non-exempt position with a payrate of $28-32 an hour due to experience.

Scope of the Role

Knowledge and Skill Requirement
•    Using defined formats and/or style guides, the incumbent prepares written descriptions of work processes and includes visual aids as necessary and appropriate. 
•    Interview subject matter experts to determine work processes and identify and resolve any gaps in instructions and ensure all Perrigo requirements are met by document content.
•    Contributes to the development of new documentation to produce requested results.
•    Assist with creation of training material for Perrigo systems and processes.
•    Recommends modifications to standard operating procedures, logs, forms, attachments, checklists.
•    Advises departments on the creation of new standard operating procedures.
•    Fulfill requests from the Document Change Request Form process as needed.
•    Contributes to projects resulting from the root cause analysis process. 
•    Clearly communicates any barriers or resources needed to complete all requested changes within timelines given.
•    Creation and ownership of weekly site communication around trending topics.  

Experience Required

Requirements:
•    Associates Degree in Technical Writing or Communications preferred; or minimum of 3 years' experience in Technical Writing.
•    Effective communication skills, written and oral. 
•    Previous experience in a highly automated environment preferred. 
•    Experience in FDA regulated facilities such as medical, pharmaceutical, or infant formula heavily preferred.
•    A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
•    Must be able to work on multiple concurrent projects and work successfully in a team environment.

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