Technical Writer - Development Function - IKEA of Sweden
IKEA is one of the world's leading home furnishing companies. Our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We do this by offering a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low that as many people as possible will be able to afford them.

As a Technical Writer you are the key stakeholder to help the Development Function to create and secure correct and relevant requirements adhering to formatting and publication standards within the Development Function. By making the documentation simple and pedagogical you are enabling it to both IKEA internal and external users to adapt an increasing overall understanding of the content.
You will support specialists and engineers in deriving documentation and initiating necessary documentation updates (IKEA specifications in particular) in order to create, maintain and secure product requirement information for IKEA suppliers and product developers

Your assignment
• Serving as a part of the team creating draft, new and amended versions of standard publications as content-wise primarily populated by Laws & Standards Specialists.
• Support Laws & Standards Specialists with optimal, consistent and standardized ways of communicating complicated technical content.
• Deliver correct language in GB English - grammatical, spelling, tonality and readability.
• Initiate improvement actions in relation to writing structure and use of font, colour, graphs, tables, pictures or new media.
• Plan and coordinate updates of documentation together with Laws & Standards Specialists.
• Improve documentation quality by quality checks on language, layout, structure, readability, simplicity, redundancy etc.
• Together with the requirement coordinator coordinate team and releases.

Is this an opportunity for you?
You must be able to understand complex technical and scientific information and communicate this information to people with diverse educational and professional backgrounds.

As a person you are analytical and business oriented with a high verbal capacity. You have deep developed skills in English language. You are excellent in writing and explaining technical information in a clear way. You have a high social competence, service minded and have the ability to communicate in a complex international environment. You like to work with high quality demands, precise and the details in every step.

You are experienced and have a proven track record of technical documentation preferably from a product development environment. You are used to technical, legal and/or natural science oriented content and have a scientific writing sense of style. You have an academic background preferably a degree in information technology/logistics, English, communications and/or in an engineering field.

Growing together
IKEA offers an exciting and empowering work environment in a global marketplace. And as the world’s leader at life a home, you have exceptional opportunities to grow and develop together with us.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Specialist, Jonas Levin at +46 72 886 53 84

We look forward to receiving your application in English as soon as possible.

IKEA of Sweden is responsible for developing the IKEA range and making it available to stores and customers all over the world. IoS is based in Älmhult – the heart of IKEA and the center of IKEA product development.
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