Job Description
Technical Illustrator
£35,000 - £40,000 DOE
1-Year FTC
North London
Monday to Friday - Stanard Office Hours
Hybrid working after probation
Our client who is a global defence company based in North London is seeking an experienced Technical Illustrator to join their team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a highly respected company in the defence industry. This is a 1-Year FTC.
The purpose of the role is to support the technical authors in the preparation, generation and maintenance of product and system manuals for the products and systems of the client.
Duties of the role
£35,000 - £40,000 DOE
1-Year FTC
North London
Monday to Friday - Stanard Office Hours
Hybrid working after probation
Our client who is a global defence company based in North London is seeking an experienced Technical Illustrator to join their team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a highly respected company in the defence industry. This is a 1-Year FTC.
The purpose of the role is to support the technical authors in the preparation, generation and maintenance of product and system manuals for the products and systems of the client.
Duties of the role
- Create and maintain technical, illustrative and systems drawings to support technical manuals including circuit diagrams, flowcharts, exploded views and dimensional drawings.
- Create and maintain 3D colour solid model, system and other diagrams supporting sales bids.
- Redraw and update existing drawings to ensure their continuing availability for use in page make-up packages.
- Maintaining the storage and accessibility of existing drawings such that they can be re-used or modified to suit further applications.
- Create and maintain a numbering system such that drawings can be identified, dated, and related to their source information.
- Participate generally in the creation of high-quality bid responses to meet customer-imposed deadlines, including collation, editing and generation of both paper and electronic versions.
- Preparation of new handbooks and other documents in both paper and electronic formats to the required standards and amendment state within the allocated time scales as directed by the Technical Publications Manager.
- Meeting contractual requirements regarding content, security, and unit operating procedures.
- Computer literate especially in the use of illustration tools such as AutoCAD, CorelDraw, and Acrobat, and in appropriate word processing packages such as Microsoft Office.
- Attentive to detail
- Flexible in approach and able to prioritise and multi-task
- Good communicator, able to extract information from various engineers and sales personnel, sufficient to create or modify drawings and to edit/author documents successfully
- Confident in the manipulation of .pdf files
- A broad engineering background, including a basic knowledge of electronics
- Confidence in reading circuit and wiring diagrams
- Familiarity with mechanical assembly and installation techniques
