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Job Description:
Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards. Are you seeking a career opportunity that recognizes and maximizes your unique talents? Do you want to work in an exciting and challenging environment? Are you interested in being part of an innovative, industry-leading team? Then consider joining Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) as aTechnical Document Specialist. At SEL, we recognize the talent of our employees and provide exciting and challenging opportunities, as we continually seek to lead our industry in technological innovation and cost-saving solutions for our customers.
The Technical Document Specialist position is located at our Pullman headquarters, in Eastern Washington, where you’ll enjoy an unmatched quality of life; the benefits of smaller town life; country space and fresh air; freedom from traffic; easy access to recreational activities in nearby mountains, rivers, and forests; and great schools and universities.
Technical Document Specialist (This is not a technical writing position) Responsibilities:
Format, proofread, and prepare for publication company documents including application guides, technical papers, presentations, training manuals, and technical drawings.
Complete other duties as assigned by department manager.
Follow and improve area development and maintenance processes. Qualifications:
Three years experience in desktop publishing, secretarial experiences with a technical emphasis, or other directly related experience
Expertise in MS Word and PowerPoint
Excellent proofreading, grammar, and communication skills
Ability to learn and communicate technical/scientific information
Ability to learn new skills and assume new responsibilities
Ability to work cooperatively in team environment
Background check results satisfactory to SEL
Negative drug test result(s) Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with technical drawing software (e.g. MS Visio or Adobe Illustrator)
An Award Winning Company Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. (SEL) has a reputation for quality, reliability, integrity, and service, which has enabled us to expand both within the electric utility market and into industrial, international, and OEM markets.
In an independent survey conducted by Newton-Evans Research Company, SEL ranks first in seven categories of performance including technology, features, security against hackers, web/internet information ability, technical service and support, price, and relay setting PC software. SEL provides an excellent work environment and is the recipient of several awards, including one of the “100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Washington State” (Puget Sound Business Journal, 1999 – 2003), ”Most Innovative Supplier” (Energex, 2002), "Entrepreneur of the Year" (Ernst & Young, 2000), and the Washington State Quality Achievement Award (WSQA).
Apply Your Talent. Make a Difference. Enjoy the Rewards. Are you ready to be part of a highly motivated and well-equipped team? Are you a quick learner who likes new challenges? If so, then you are ready to join us at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. Dr. Edmund O. Schweitzer III delivered the first commercial digital protective relay in 1984. Under his technical, managerial, and fiscal leadership, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories has expanded to over 1000 employees. Ed understands and supports the need for investing in employees. In return, he expects that we hire only the best, most highly motivated team members, and that we deliver simple, reliable, and cost-effective products and solutions.
Our products and solutions must be simple and reliable because they protect the largest, most complicated machine on earth: the electric power grid. Blackouts in the U.S. and Canada remind us that reliable electric power is crucial to our society. SEL provides systems, services, and products for the protection, monitoring, control, automation, and metering of utility and industrial electric systems worldwide.
Our company and our products exist to make electric power safer, more reliable, and more economical. That purpose has made SEL very successful, and the company is managed with sound fiscal judgment and that purpose in mind. Profits are reinvested to fuel the company’s growth.
In addition to offering a variety of challenges in a supportive, stable environment, SEL shares its success with employees by giving them stock in the company. All employees earn stock at the same rate. And because only employees can own SEL stock, the stock price is not subject to market volatility. Even when the stock market value has plunged, SEL stock consistently increased in value.
If you are ready for the challenge and benefits of being part of the SEL team, and you meet the requirements listed above, please apply online at www.selinc.com/careers.
Benefits: SEL has an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, and vision for employees and their entire family; long-term disability and life insurance; education assistance programs; a very generous employee stock ownership plan; 401K; flexible benefit account; and an outstanding work environment.
SEL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and a Drug Free Workplace.