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Senior R&D Documentation Specialist at ANSYS in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Posted in Other 30+ days ago.





Job Description:

Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation, helping the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, Ansys helps companies solve the most complex design challenges and engineer products limited only by imagination.


The Senior R&D Documentation Specialist writes, edits, and creates a variety of Ansys documentation deliverables for Ansys Electronics. They reviewall work for organization, content, technical accuracy, and style. This role requires effective planning, scheduling, research, writing, and editing skills. The Senior Documentation Specialist participates as a member of development teams, keeping informed of product development activities to determine the need for new documentation as well as revisions, corrections, and changes in previously released materials.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES


  • Determines audience needs to create user documentation, tutorials, and videos for Ansys Electronics products

  • Updates and revises previously released documentation

  • Attains a high level of knowledge about both Ansys products and Ansys documentationtools, processes, and procedures

  • Works closely with development teams to create Ansys documentation

  • Requires minimal supervision

  • May mentor other documentation specialists

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS


  • BS in Technical Writing, Technical Communication, Computer Science, English/Linguistics, Journalism, or Engineeringwith 5 years' experience or MS with 3 years' experience

  • Fluency in English, along with excellent written and spoken communication skills

  • Skilled at gathering and analyzing technical and product information from various sources, paying close attention to detail

  • Proven experience developinguser-centricdocumentation ensuring a high level of quality, consistency, and accuracy

  • Adept at managing multiple tasks and priorities simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, geographically diverse environment

  • This position does not qualify for immigration sponsorship

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS


  • Familiarity with Ansys products

  • Experienced with the concepts of documentation authoring, common project management software, version control, and agile development methodologies

  • Experience with MadCap Flare or similar authoring tool and HTML

  • Proven experience determining the best method in which to present information and then creating the appropriate output(s), such as topic-based help, videos, tutorials, and graphics

  • Develop competence in Electronics software and use that experience when developing documentation


CULTURE AND VALUES

Culture and values are incredibly important to Ansys. They inform us of who we are, of how we act. Values aren't posters hanging on a wall or about trite or glib slogans. They aren't about rules and regulations. They can't just be handed down the organization. They are shared beliefs - guideposts that we all follow when we're facing a challenge or a decision. Our values tell us how we live our lives; how we approach our jobs. Our values are crucial for fostering a culture of winning for our company:


  • Customer focus

  • Results and Accountability

  • Innovation

  • Transparency and Integrity

  • Mastery

  • Inclusiveness

  • Sense of urgency

  • Collaboration and Teamwork



WORKING AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary of leaders, collectively aiming to change the world with innovative technology and remarkable solutions. With the prestigious reputation in servicing well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high, met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head-on. Because at Ansys, it's about the learning, the discovery and the collaboration. It's about the "what's next" as much as the "mission accomplished". It's about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can and will impact real people in real ways, forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy and ethics.



At Ansys, you will find yourself among those eager to drive the world towards the next best thing with hands planted firmly on the wheel.

Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology so our customers can turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at lower cost. As a measure of our success in attaining these goals, Ansys has been recognized as one of the world's most innovative companies by prestigious publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek and FORTUNE magazines.



Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a component of the NASDAQ-100.



For more information, please visit us at www.ansys.com



Ansys is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.



Ansys does not accept unsolicited referrals for vacancies, and any unsolicited referral will become the property of Ansys. Upon hire, no fee will be owed to the agency, person, or entity.

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