Technical Writer II

Job Category: Service Contract Act

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

Anticipated Posting End: 8/25/2025

Job Description Summary:

CACI is looking for a Technical Writer to join our team!  You will draft, incorporate, edit, review, and publish approved Satellite Control Network (SCN) Technical Order (TO) Changes to the baseline in support of the operations and maintenance personnel performing the SCN mission. Within the realm of a DoD contract and military standard (MIL-STD) guidelines, you will communicate and coordinate with DSLM engineers, project managers, configuration managers (CM) and data managers (DM), logisticians, drafters, and Government customers to efficiently develop and maintain technical documentation and contractual deliverables. The ideal candidate will need to be adaptable in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities and be able to balance and organize projects that span several stages of development.

The Opportunity:

The DSLM Technical Writing team is a tight-knit group of creative and collaborative individuals. We value the balance between work and personal life and will encourage your professional growth aspirations. We also know the importance of trust in the workplace and encourage light-hearted team building. While we often have periods of working individually, we are team players and rely on each other’s unique knowledge and experience to provide outstanding quality documentation. The ideal candidate would bring both a willingness to learn and their own dynamic to our small group of bright, supportive, and genuine writers.

Responsibilities:

• Established and productive individual contributor.
• Understands engineering design of 2-3 projects and can translate that design to identify and redline technical order impacts.
• Works independently with general supervision.
• Problems faced are difficult but typically not complex.
• May influence others technical staff through explanation of facts, policies, and practices.
• Works independently on larger, moderately complex projects/systems.
• Sets objectives for own job area to meet the objectives or goals of projects and assignments.

Organizational Impact:

• Works to achieve operational objectives within job area which has direct impact on the overall achievement of results for the department and for 2-3 projects.

Innovation & Complexity:

• Responsible for adjusting or recommended enhancements in systems and processes to solve problems or improve effectiveness of job area.
• Addresses simple to complex technical issues/problems that require a depth of technical job knowledge from other areas.
• Problems are typically solved through drawing from prior experiences, with analysis of the issue.

Communication & Influence:

• Communicate with contacts typically within the technical writing department and the SCN engineering department on matters that involve obtaining or providing information requiring explanation or interpretation to reach agreement.
• Work alongside the SCN engineering, CM/DM, and logistics teams to drive TO changes that reflect design of 2-3 projects.

Leadership & Talent MGMT:

• May provide guidance, assistance, analysis, and training to entry level professionals, support employees and external departments.

Travel:

• May travel up to %10 of the time.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Writing or technical field or equivalent on-the-job documentation experience.

Technical Experience:

• 3-5 years technical or procedural writing experience.

Hard and Soft Skills:

• Willingness to learn.
• Initiative to expand technical and soft skills.
• Knowledge of Air Force technical orders.
• Ability to problem-solve.
• Adaptability to a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to consistently meet deadlines.
• Experience with MS Word, Excel, and Power Point, Teams, and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
• Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience with Air Force Technical Orders.
• Familiarity of the Satellite Control Network (SCN).
• How to read, interpret, decipher, and understand engineering drawings and design.
• Working knowledge of TM-86-01, TO-00-5-1, TO-005-3, and MIL-STD 38784.