Senior Technical Publications Specialist - Aerospace Manufacturing

Position Summary 

The Senior Technical Publications Specialist is responsible for developing, revising, and maintaining technical publications that support our Aircraft products, certification activities, customer deliverables, and aftermarket services. 

This role converts engineering, test, manufacturing, supplier, and regulatory source data into accurate and usable maintenance and product-support documentation. You will independently manage complex publication assignments and work closely with Engineering, Configuration Management, Quality, the Repair Station, Customer Support, and Program teams to ensure technical data is complete, controlled, and aligned with the approved product configuration. 

The position serves as a senior individual contributor and technical resource for publication standards, document quality, and the timely release of customer-facing technical data. 

What you will be doing:

• Develop, revise, and maintain Component Maintenance Manuals, Service Bulletins, Instructions for Continued Airworthiness, installation and maintenance instructions, illustrated parts information, and other customer technical data. 
• Interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, engineering changes, test reports, supplier data, and maintenance procedures to create clear and accurate technical content. 
• Develop publication content in accordance with applicable ATA, S1000D, customer, and internal standards, as required by the program. 
• Coordinate technical illustrations, parts information, warnings, cautions, and procedural content to ensure publications are complete and usable by the intended audience. 
• Ensure technical publications reflect the approved product configuration, effectivity, and revision status. 
• Support document review, approval, release, and revision-control processes in coordination with Configuration Management and Engineering. 
• Verify traceability between publication content and approved engineering source data. 
• Support compliance with FAA, EASA, customer, Repair Station, and quality-system documentation requirements, as applicable. 
• Work with design, stress, systems, test, manufacturing, quality, certification, customer support, and program personnel to validate technical content and resolve documentation questions. 
• Coordinate with subject-matter experts and suppliers to obtain missing source data and close technical publication action items. 
• Support customer and regulatory reviews of technical data and incorporate approved comments into released publications. 
• Communicate publication status, schedule risks, dependencies, and required decisions to program and engineering leadership. 
• Perform peer reviews and quality checks for technical accuracy, consistency, grammar, format, and compliance with publication standards. 
• Provide guidance to technical writers, illustrators, and engineering personnel on documentation requirements and authoring practices. 
• Develop and maintain publication templates, style guidance, checklists, and standard work instructions. 
• Identify opportunities to improve authoring, review, approval, and release processes while maintaining configuration control. 

What you need to qualify:

• 7+ years' experience developing technical publications in aerospace, defense, aviation maintenance, or a similarly regulated industry 
• Advanced technical writing, editing, and document-development capability 
• Strong knowledge of aerospace maintenance and product-support documentation 
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, and technical source data 
• Understanding of configuration management, document control, effectivity, and engineering change processes 
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and technical problem-solving skills 
• Effective communication and collaboration across engineering, quality, manufacturing, and customer-facing teams 
• Experience with structured-authoring and publishing tools such as Arbortext, FrameMaker, XML or SGML applications, or comparable systems 
• Associate or bachelor's degree in Technical Communication, Engineering, Aviation Maintenance, English, or a related discipline preferred 
• Demonstrated experience developing or maintaining Component Maintenance Manuals, Service Bulletins, Instructions for Continued Airworthiness, or comparable aerospace technical data 
• Working knowledge of ATA iSpec 2200, S1000D, FAA or EASA documentation requirements, or customer publication standards preferred 
• Experience with document-management, product-lifecycle-management, or configuration-control systems preferred 
• Experience supporting certification, Repair Station, aftermarket, or customer technical-data activities is a plus 

What's in it for you:

• Competitive salary
• Excellent health benefits
• Matching 401k plan
• Tuition reimburement
• Fun, entrepreneurial working environment

We are an established and growing aerospace manufacturing company whose products are found in nearly every commercial aircraft.