Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. The job opportunity below is with one of our clients specializing in biotechnology product development services. The client is dedicated to supplying laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies, and services essential in healthcare, scientific research, safety, and education. As a global leader in serving the scientific community, the organization generates approximately $40 billion in annual revenue and is committed to making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Their global team delivers innovative technologies, convenient procurement solutions, and pharmaceutical services through industry-leading brands.
Position: Manufacturing Technical Writer
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, 94085
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, 94085
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Summary
Manufacturing Technical Writer / Technical Writer develops and maintains digital manufacturing batch records and work instructions using the Dozuki platform. Translates complex manufacturing processes into clear, standardized, user-friendly documentation. Collaborates with Operations, Quality, R&D, and subject matter experts to ensure documentation supports safe, compliant, and efficient production.
Responsibilities
- Develop, edit, and maintain manufacturing batch records and work instructions in Dozuki.
- Translate technical processes, including chemical manufacturing, polymer synthesis, and purification, into clear step-by-step digital guides.
- Collaborate with manufacturing chemists, process development teams, quality teams, and SMEs to capture accurate process information.
- Ensure documentation meets quality standards and internal documentation requirements.
- Standardize formatting, terminology, and structure across batch records.
- Incorporate images, diagrams, tables, and other visuals to improve clarity and reduce operator errors.
- Support version control, change management, and document updates.
- Participate in process walkthroughs and shop-floor observations.
- Identify documentation gaps, ambiguities, and procedural risks and recommend improvements.
- Develop templates and documentation best practices for scalable manufacturing workflows.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives; PPI, Lean, or Six Sigma experience is a plus.
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences, or another technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of technical writing experience in manufacturing, biotechnology, or a regulated environment.
- Experience creating SOPs, batch records, or work instructions.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to simplify complex technical information.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Experience with Dozuki or similar digital work-instruction platforms preferred.
- Familiarity with ISO 9001 or regulated manufacturing environments preferred.
- Knowledge or exposure to chemical or polymer manufacturing processes preferred.
- Experience incorporating visuals and instructional-design best practices preferred.
- Continuous improvement mindset; PPI, Lean, or Six Sigma experience a plus.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Sunnyvale, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $35–$40 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Chemical Engineeringunmatched
- Chemical Processesunmatched
- Chemistryunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Document Change Managementunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Documentation Standardsunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- ISO 9001unmatched
- Instructional Designunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Lean Six Sigmaunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Technologyunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Polymersunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Process Developmentunmatched
- Producer Price Index (PPI)unmatched
- Product Developmentunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Research & Development (R&D)unmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM)unmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Support Documentationunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Deliveryunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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