Senior Technical Author - Expression of Interest in Aberdeen

Wood is seeking expressions of interest from Senior Technical Authors to join our Integrated Digital Operations Team based in Aberdeen, supporting a diverse portfolio of global projects.

The Role

This role is responsible for updating and enhancing existing documentation to meet client requirements, ensuring all deliverables are completed within agreed timelines, quality standards, and budget constraints. Experience in Health, Safety, Environmental and Security (HSSE) documentation is desirable.

Our Clients and Projects

Our clients are typically EPC operators in the oil and gas, renewables or petrochemical process industries. We are committed to providing them with best practice operations and maintenance documents to ensure safe and efficient plant start-up and operations.

Our global specialist consultancy business encompasses 3,700+ professionals with industry-leading expertise in areas including decarbonisation, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, renewables advisory, asset optimisation, and digital solutions. A multi-sector business unit, we are focused on providing technical consulting during the planning, design, building, operation and optimisation of assets, facilities, and infrastructure across a range of end markets including energy, industrial, power and mining.

What we can offer

• A caring team culture that supports each other professionally and personally, encouraging knowledge sharing across all areas of the business.
• Energy Transition Academy: join a community of experts sharing your knowledge and gaining more exposure to a variety of existing and emerging energy systems – delivered by experts in their field.
• Meaningful and interesting projects delivered to leaders of industry across the Energy sector.
• Flexible working arrangements that balance client, team and individual needs offering hybrid and remote working where relevant.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
• Commitment to continued professional development; development plans that are tailored to your individual needs and interests.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of our industry, shaping the standards of our profession.

Responsibilities

The Key Objectives of this role are:

• Plan and define the work: Establish objectives, audience, scope, standards, legislation, style, methodology, resources, timescales, and agree these with the client or technical authority.
• Research and structure content: Gather and filter relevant information, organise it logically, define heading hierarchies, and develop synopses where required to ensure clarity and usability.
• Author and develop technical content: Produce consistent, compliant draft documents using templates, incorporating accurate diagrams and graphics, and liaising through review and approval stages.
• Manage document production and quality: Ensure independent quality control checks and coordinate final production deliverables (electronic and hard copy) with production teams.
• Maintain and assure document quality: Revise existing documents as required, ensure consistency of style and language, manage workload priorities, and coordinate with stakeholders to deliver to agreed standards, scope, and budget.

Qualifications

Skills And Qualifications

What Makes you Remarkable? At Wood, we are committed to equal opportunities and welcome all talented individuals to consider joining our team. So even if you don't match every statement below but feel you have some of the experience, knowledge or skills needed for this role, we encourage you to apply. It will take all of us working together to deliver solutions to the world’s most critical challenges.

Expected:

• General Education to secondary level.
• Recognized qualification in Technical Authorship or appropriate discipline.
• Proven years of experience in Technical Authoring.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office packages.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft applications (Word, Excel, Visio, Project).
• Interpretation of the requirements of a client for a technical publication.
• Identification of the objectives of a technical publication.
• Plan projects to develop technical publications.
• Lead the development of technical publications.
• Obtaining, recording and storing information for use in a technical publication.
• Design the structure and style of a technical publication.
• Planning, producing and reviewing with other people the text for inclusion in a technical publication.
• Incorporation of multimedia components (graphics, photographs etc) in a technical publication.
• Identification of supplementary components (title and division pages/cards) for a technical publication or arrange production by others.
• Integration of components of a technical publication (preliminary pages, sections, chapters, content, appendices/addenda, supplementary components).
• Writing and editing technical publications to improve their technical quality.
• Coordination of the development of a new version of a technical publication.
• Obtaining and providing advice and information relating to a technical publication.

Desirable:

• Work experience related to the oil and gas industry (or similar) and associated technical documentation.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines.
• Proposing and presenting recommendations for a technical publication to a client.
• Cost estimating and cost tracking against budget and reporting to clients.
• Training of colleagues.
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of a technical publication.
• Contribute to the design of a technical publication.
• Knowledge of the production process required for each project, the timeframes involved and any potential problems.