Technical Writer - Medical and Scientific Documentation

Technical Writer

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

A technical writer manages IFUs by gathering information, ensuring regulatory compliance, and creating clear, accurate instructions to support safe and effective product use.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

• Identify IFU/label requirements and obtain necessary raw information from various sources.  
• Learn and understand the design and behavior of the company’s products.
• Design, develop, and maintain IFU/label using FrameMaker® and other software applications.
• Control IFU versioning and maintain the IFU archives.
• Provide IFU/label -related support to the Marketing, Product Development, and Regulatory groups.
• Identify IFU translation requirements, prepare and manage translation projects to completion.
• Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator, and some database experience
• Perform the administrative documentation tasks required to establish and track IFU in a Product Lifecycle Management system.
• Continuously evaluate business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and implement improvements.
• Proofread and edit the work of other writers.
• All activities must be performed in compliance with the Quality System.
• Performs duties in compliance with environmental, health and safety related site rules, policies or governmental regulations.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Medical, Mechanical, Electric Life Science or Masters in Pharmaceutical
• 4-7 years experiences as a technical.
• Proficient with FrameMaker® software
• Proficient with Adobe Acrobat® and PhotoShop® software, vector graphics software (e.g. Adobe Illustrator® or CoreDraw) and HTML.
• Preferable experience in the medical or scientific software field
• Experience with Structured Authoring using XML and content management solutions.
• Experience writing for a global audience.
• Experience with professional translation services.
• Excellent written, organizational, and communication skills is required, and have a flexible and team-oriented attitude.
• Strong attention to details and ability to handle multiple tasks, good at planning and can work under pressure;
• Good at English, including reading, writing, and speaking;
• Good Learning attitude

 

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

 

 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create.  We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

 

 

This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. 
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here  

Experience Level

Mid Level