Technical Writer - Nss

Position: TECHNICAL WRITER - NSS
About Us

Nova Space Solutions, LLC (NSS) is a joint venture between Wolf Creek Federal Services, Inc. (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chugach Government Solutions, LLC) and Amentum Technology, Inc. When you join NSS, you also become a part of a proud legacy of supporting missions while sustaining culture.

The federal division of Chugach Alaska Corporation, Chugach Government Solutions, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has been supporting critical missions as a government contractor for over 25 years. We are proud to have built, and continue to foster, an incredibly talented team spanning across the globe in hundreds of different fields - each team member proud to serve our country with first-class business services, while also making a difference for our Chugach shareholders.

Empowering employees is a part of our core, and that focus is one of the ways we build and foster high-performing teams. We empower our employees through competitive compensation and benefits package, professional growth opportunities, truthful communication, and more!

If you are looking for an opportunity to serve something bigger than yourself; if you want your day job to be one that creates meaningful value; if you are looking for an environment that highly values employees and respects individual differences - then Nova Space Solutions may be the right fit for you!

Job Overview

Nova Space Solutions (NSS) is seeking a Technical Writer to join our PLM group within the Engineering Services Department team at NASA John

C. Stennis Space Center, Mississippi and NASA Michoud Assembly Facility, Louisiana. The Technical Writer revises or writes standardized material for site-wide standards, work instructions, procedures, reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, specifications, and other related technical administrative publications.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing, writing, and editing material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, specifications, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures, and installation, operation, and maintenance of machinery and other equipment.
• Observe production, developmental and experimental activities plus attend meetings as assigned to document meeting minutes, operating procedures, and details.
• Organize material and complete writing assignments according to set standards regarding order, clarity, conciseness, style, and terminology.
• Review published materials and recommend revisions or changes in scope, format, content, and methods of reproduction and binding.
• Maintain records and files of work and revisions. Select photographs, drawings, sketches, diagrams, and charts to illustrate material.
• Assist in laying out material for publication.
• Edit, standardize, or make changes to material prepared by other personnel.
• When required, write material regarding work methods and procedures.
• When required, support tenants, customers, engineers in the field.
• Clerical & technical writing duties for critical correspondence, reports, forms, and presentations from draft form to final completion.
• Support tracking and reporting monthly data requirements deliverables (DRD) for COSMIC, including PC07, PC17, FA01, FA02, FA03.
• Support project planning initiatives, particularly with CoF program, including risk matrices, quads, technical writeups, imagery, formatting for presentations or data calls.
• Support design deliverable development through planning, kickoff, design reviews, and final design submission, including scheduling and attending meetings and design reviews.
• Assist in A/E service transmittal review, RFI response, change orders, and data management.
• Utilize NASA and NSS data management systems.
• Attend, host, or coordinate meetings and conference rooms.
• Support purchase requisition documentation for engineering services department, including technical writing and compiling SOWs, estimates, forms and upload and processing through Maximo data management system module.
• Progress and tracking design progress, milestones, due dates, metrics; communicate concerns with project team members; support management data requests.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

Mandatory:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Journalism, or English with an emphasis in technical writing/editing or degree may be substituted by equivalent experience.
• At least five (5) years' experience in a position requiring writing and editing.
• At least two (2) years' experience in a position requiring organizing, coordinating, and publishing large documents.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Word and beginning proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Must be comfortable working with several different levels of management within the Business Development Unit, as well as marketing and cost personnel.
• Must be able to work under tight deadlines and in a rapidly changing environment where changes happen quickly, and customers require a quick response.
• Analytical, highly…