Job Title: Senior Technical Author/ ILS Engineer

Location: Rochester

Salary: £41,000 – £47,000 depending on experience and skills

What you’ll be doing:

• Working within the documentation team and liaising with project teams and engineers to author Component Maintenance Manuals, Data Modules, Illustrated Parts Catalogues etc
• Creating new technical documentation and amending existing technical documentation, ensuring all information is up-to-date and accurate
• Working closely with engineers to gather information, including design drawings, to fully understand the impact that changes have on technical documentation
• Interpreting engineering data, and where appropriate, querying data to ensure correct and accurate interpretation
• Producing production specifications for sub-contracted work packages and effectively managing the lifecycle of the sub-contracted packages

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• BTEC Level 3/HNC/HND in an engineering discipline
• Understanding/ability to read technical design drawings
• Experience in a maintenance or manufacturing environment
• Computer literate with a sound knowledge of Microsoft Office products
• Experience of creating/ updating Data Modules (DMs) Component Maintenance Manuals (CMMs) Initial Provisioning Lists (IPLs), and Interactive Electronic Technical Publications (IETPs)

Desirable:

• Experience of Adobe FrameMaker (Structured & Unstructured), S1000D editor or Eagle EPS, Initial Provisioning to S2000M

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Technical Engineering team:

You will work within a team of Technical Author’s and ILS Engineers, as part of Electronic System’s supportability engineering function. You will be contributing to the development and through life support of customer facing documentation. This will involve researching, developing, writing and reviewing technical information and guidance for new and existing products, used by both UK and overseas customers.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work within many project teams across a wide range of products and grow key skills.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 21st October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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