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Job Ref:  12711
Employer:  Tesla Motors.
City:  Fremont
State/Province:  CA
Country:  United States
Type of Employment:  Full Time
Job Description: 
About Tesla Motors

Tesla's goal is to accelerate the world's transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs, as well as EV powertrain components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler. Tesla has delivered more than 2,400 Roadsters to customers worldwide and received more than 13,000 reservations for Model S. Model S, the world's first premium sedan to be engineered from the ground up as an electric vehicle, began deliveries to U.S. customers in June of this year and was named Motor Trend's prestigious 2013 Car of the Year.

Position Description :

We are looking for a Sr Staff Technical Writer with hardware knowledge who can expertly understand the complex problems that occur on a modern high-tech automobile. There is no requirement to understand the latest EV technology; we will train on these systems if needed. A general understanding of automotive technology is preferred.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:
  • Write technical automotive documents, primarily focusing on service bulletins for the service department but not excluding various training aids and internal communications documents.
  • Manage the current documents and all new documents in a document/change control database.
  • Follow up with various engineering and quality teams to gather technical information. Understand the problems and communicate them into the proper bulletin.
  • Validate the information for accuracy and use a routing and review process to get approval on the documents.

Qualifications/Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in English, technical writing, or a related degree, and/or 8-10 years of technical writing experience
  • Experience in automotive repair or automotive engineering (design or testing) preferred
  • Must be able to extract and comprehend system operation from typical engineering documentation (schematics, subsystem specifications, or equipment spec docs)
  • Strong attention to detail and personal organization
  • Expert understanding of MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint
  • Proven professional attitude toward work assignments and customer relationships
  • High level of interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to collaborate in a team environment
  • Pro-active team player who thinks ahead, plans, and suggests solutions
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work with little supervision
  • Positive attitude toward change and inevitable mid-project course corrections
  • Moderate skill in photography and audio visual a plus
  • Excellent Mechanical aptitude with hand tools a plus
  • Strong Experience in Adobe FrameMaker or similar structured authoring tool a plus
  • Solid Experience in HTML, XML, or other markup language a plus

Tesla Motors is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, color, age, sex, ancestry, marital status, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, present or past history of mental disability, genetic information or any other classification protected by state or federal law.

08/02/2013

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