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Milestone Technologies
Seattle, WA, United States
$34 an hour
Full-time
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Company Overview

Milestone Technologies is a global IT managed services firm that partners with organizations to scale their technology, infrastructure and services to drive specific business outcomes such as digital transformation, innovation, and operational agility.

Milestone is focused on building an employee-first, performance based culture and for over 25 years, we have a demonstrated history of supporting category-defining enterprise clients that are growing ahead of the market.

The company specializes in providing solutions across Application Services and Consulting, Digital Product Engineering, Digital Workplace Services, Private Cloud Services, AI / Automation, and ServiceNow.

Milestone culture is built to provide a collaborative, inclusive environment that supports employees and empowers them to reach their full potential.

Our seasoned professionals deliver services based on Milestone's best practices and service delivery framework. By leveraging our vast knowledge base to execute initiatives, we deliver both short-term and long-term value to our clients and apply continuous service improvement to deliver transformational benefits to IT.

With Intelligent Automation, Milestone helps businesses further accelerate their IT transformation. The result is a sharper focus on business objectives and a dramatic improvement in employee productivity.

Through our key technology partnerships and our people-first approach, Milestone continues to deliver industry-leading innovation to our clients.

With more than 3,000 employees serving over 200 companies worldwide, we are following our mission of revolutionizing the way IT is deployed around the globe.

Job Overview

The Technical Writer will be responsible for creating documentation to assist the team with communication, training, projects, organization, processes and procedures.

How You Will Make an Impact :

  • Lead the initiative to audit the current knowledge base systems and provide strategic recommendations for changes and improvements
  • Write and simplify processes and procedures into understandable language, workflows, and instructions
  • Create and maintain internal site content for organization, content accuracy, and brand
  • Maintain library for communications team's document control, team collaboration, and external socialization
  • Write and simplify processes and procedures into understandable language, workflows, and instructions
  • Participate in all aspects of documentation development from project planning through project release, including but not limited to developing, writing, editing, and publishing the content
  • Look for operational efficiencies while documenting content and communicate areas of improvement within the process to SMEs and managers
  • Work collaboratively with various teams and disciplines to develop documentation that satisfies its intended purpose, within schedule and budget limitations
  • Lead or assist with retention, file naming, and file storage initiatives
  • Understand and apply context towards different content types, tailor content to best fit the audience, and apply critical thinking to ensure that content meets standards
  • Maintain a working knowledge of other industry-standard platform
  • Meets regularly with stakeholders and cross-functional teams for status updates.
  • Write concise documentation including but not limited to the following : procedures, work instructions, and other operational documents.
  • Create and maintain internal documents and ensure they are organized, accurate, and meet department branding requirements.
  • Participate in documentation development throughout the document lifecycle
  • Look for operational efficiencies while documenting content and communicate areas of improvement within process to SMEs and managers
  • Work collaboratively with various teams and disciplines to develop documentation that satisfies its intended purpose
  • Write and simplify processes and procedures into understandable language, workflows, and instructions
  • Understand and apply context towards different content types, tailor content to best fit the audience, and apply critical thinking to ensure that content meets standards
  • Assist cross-functionally on documentation tasks as necessary to meet client and stakeholder needs
  • Escalates blockers to team lead
  • Some travel may be required

What You Will Need to Succeed :

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Minimum of 3 + years experience as a Content or Technical Specialist
  • Proficient in MS Suites to include Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Google Workspace tools (Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
  • Effective communication skills, written and verbal
  • Editorial, copywriting, and / or analytics experience

Compensation

Estimated Pay Range : The estimated pay range for this position is USD $28.77 / Hr. - USD $34.00 / Hr. and is a Non-Exempt role.

Benefits : We offer comprehensive benefit options which vary depending on role, location, and employment type. Benefit options may include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.

The Talent Acquisition Partner can share more details about compensation or benefits for the specific role during the hiring process.

Exact compensation and offers of employment are dependent on circumstances of each case and will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, licenses or certifications, and location.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

At Milestone we strive to create a workplace that reflects the communities we serve and work with, where we all feel empowered to bring our full, authentic selves to work.

We know creating a diverse and inclusive culture that champions equity and belonging is not only the right thing to do for ouremployees butis also critical to our continued success.

Milestone Technologies provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, national origin, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law, or local ordinance.

Milestone also makes reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants and employees.

We welcome the unique background, culture, experiences, knowledge, innovation, self-expression and perspectives you can bring to our global community.

Our recruitment team is looking forward to meeting you.

This position may be assigned to a client that requires all individuals on-site to have the COVID-19 vaccination. The individual must be fully vaccinated before starting work at such a client site.

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