Location Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire
Salary up to £45,000, depending on experience
Hybrid working 3 days/week on-site
We're looking for a Technical Author to join our team and help shape the user experience of our Intelligent Metrology software portfolio, MODUS IM.
MODUS IM is a suite of inspection software applications that work together to support programmers, operators, data analysts, and automation engineers. Its modular architecture allows us to create tailored solutions for a diverse range of manufacturing and metrology environments.
As a Technical Author, you'll be responsible for creating, managing, and delivering high-quality user documentation across the MODUS IM product range. Working closely with software engineers, product owners, and support teams, you'll ensure that our customers receive clear, accurate, and effective guidance that helps them get the most from our software.
Responsibilities
- Create, edit, and maintain user-facing documentation, including Help systems, release notes, datasheets, and supporting technical content.
- Apply best-practice authoring techniques to develop topic-based, modular, and reusable content.
- Structure and organise documentation to meet the needs of various user groups.
- Collaborate with product owners, subject matter experts, support teams, and software developers to ensure that content is accurate, complete, and easy to understand.
- Follow and contribute to documentation standards, style guides, terminology, and processes.
- Review and advise on user-facing text within software applications.
- Manage localisation activities, including localisation engineering processes and language pack verification.
Key requirements
- An interest in technical writing within an engineering or software environment.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- The ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly and concisely. Unnecessary
- Strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for collaborating with colleagues across teams and locations.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- A positive attitude towards feedback and continuous improvement.
- An interest in multilingual content and localisation processes.
- Experience creating technical documentation or user assistance content.
Desirable requirements
- Experience working with software development teams or engineering products.
- Knowledge of structured authoring, content reuse, or modern documentation practices.
What we offer
- A collaborative and supportive working environment.
- Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
- A competitive salary and benefits package.
- A discretionary hybrid working arrangement, with a minimum of three days per week in the office (non-contractual).
- The opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the experience of software users around the world.
The successful candidate will be comfortable managing a varied workload across multiple projects. You'll have strong interviewing and information-gathering skills, enabling you to work effectively with subject matter experts. You'll also have, or be keen to develop, an awareness of current trends and best practices in technical communication.
Benefits
When you join Renishaw, we're committing to your future career. That's because we believe in developing our people's skills and promoting them internally. We also offer a benefits package that's highly desirable; including a 9% non-contributory pension, discretionary annual bonus, *subsidised onsite restaurants and *coffee shops, free parking, *car sharing scheme and *24 hour fitness centres. ( not available at all sites).
We also want to promote a healthy work-life balance as much as possible, so we have introduced a hybrid working policy which allows for a combination of home and office based working depending on the nature of your role. We also offer a variable working programme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, Life Assurance policy of 12 times annual salary, Cycle to Work scheme, enhanced maternity pay subject to qualifying criteria, Health Cash Plan, the option to join Renishaw Health Trust (Aviva) and an Employee Assistance Programme for employees and family.
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At Renishaw we believe that our success is powered by welcoming a workforce of diverse and talented people. Through encouraging an inclusive culture, where all our employees are free to be themselves, we can achieve our core values: Innovation, Inspiration, Integrity, and Involvement.
If you are excited about the role but feel as though you don’t meet all the requirements, we would encourage you still to apply. You might just be the right person for this role or another opportunity at Renishaw.
We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, or require any reasonable adjustments please contact the recruitment team on 01453 490384 or [email protected].
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Employment Type:
PermanentTime Type:
Full timeRequisition Number:
R9898 Technical Author (Open)Skills Required
- Interest in technical writing within an engineering or software environment
- Excellent written communication skills
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and explain them clearly and concisely
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy
- Positive attitude toward feedback and continuous improvement
- Interest in multilingual content and localization processes
- Experience creating technical documentation or user assistance content
- Experience working with software development teams or engineering products
- Knowledge of structured authoring, content reuse, or modern documentation practices
Renishaw Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Renishaw and has not been reviewed or approved by Renishaw.
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Retirement Support — The pension scheme includes a 9% employer contribution with salary‑sacrifice options, signaling strong long‑term savings support. Feedback suggests this materially strengthens total compensation in the UK.
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Healthcare Strength — Subsidized private medical cover, life assurance, and a 24/7 EAP—alongside options like a health cash plan and on‑site fitness centers—indicate comprehensive health and wellbeing support. These provisions contribute to a sense of strong healthcare coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days of annual leave with company days, long‑service accrual, and the option to buy additional leave point to generous time‑off provision. Hybrid and “variable working” arrangements further support work–life balance when roles allow.
Renishaw Insights
What We Do
Renishaw is one of the world's leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery. It is also a world leader in the field of additive manufacturing (also referred to as 3D printing), where it designs and makes industrial machines which ‘print' parts from metal powder. The Renishaw Group currently has 80 offices in 36 countries, with over 5,000 employees, of which over 3,000 people are employed within the UK. The majority of the company's R&D and manufacturing is carried out in the UK and for the year ended June 2019, Renishaw achieved sales of £574 million of which 94% was due to exports. The company's largest markets are USA, China, Japan and Germany
