AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
ResponsibilitiesAs a Technical Writer II with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:
- Work with the technical implementation teams to understand the product document requirements.
- Assist in the creation and submission of documentation required for compliance with our Quality Management System.
- Assist in establishing and continuously improving the standardization and simplification of technical writing processes, procedures, and style guidelines.
- Contribute to documentation development lifecycle improvements
- Convert legacy/previous formatting to latest formatting/style guidelines.
- Create documentation based on standardized templates.
- Analyze and edit content to maintain continuity of style and content.
- Assess the audience needs for whom the technical and procedural documentation is intended.
- Conduct document reviews and collect input from stakeholders.
- Create data flow diagrams, component diagrams, and similar technical illustrations.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems.
- Secret Clearance or the ability to obtain a Secret clearance (US citizenship required).
- At least 2 (two) years of experience in: Writing technical reports, analyzing technical literature, writing descriptive copy, and verifying documentation with appropriate sources.
- Ability to use various word-processing and desktop publishing software applications. Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite required. Familiarity with Arbortext Editor, Adobe CC, Adobe Acrobat, HTML, and XML.S1000D specification to produce technical publications preferred.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Active SECRET Clearance and US Citizenship
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Information Systems
- Secret clearance or ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- U.S. citizenship
- At least two years of experience writing technical reports, analyzing technical literature, writing descriptive copy, and verifying documentation with appropriate sources
- Ability to use word-processing and desktop publishing software applications
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Active Secret clearance
- Familiarity with Arbortext Editor, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Acrobat, HTML, XML, and S1000D
What We Do
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned government services contractor that delivers professional, technical, information technology, engineering, analysis, testing, evaluation, and training solutions for complex national-priority programs. Based in McLean, Virginia, the company supports federal customers—particularly defense and other Department of Defense missions—with mission-essential and information engineering, digital engineering, systems integration, cybersecurity, cloud, data, and lifecycle IT services across critical public-sector environments.
