Job Title: Technical & Graphical Illustrator
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Fixed Term – 12 Months
Industry: Defence
Job Location: Hertfordshire
Salary: Negotiable

Profile – Technical & Graphical Illustrator

Our client is a leading defence organisation who design/develop and manufacture complex systems for use in the marine and defence sectors globally. Candidates will have the opportunity to work with an internationally renowned brand providing superior products to their clients.

Job Role – Technical & Graphical Illustrator

Reporting to the ILS and Training Manager the Technical & Graphical Illustrator shall support the technical authors in the preparation, generation and maintenance of product and system manuals for products and other publications are required as part of the role.

Duties – Technical & Graphical Illustrator

• 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 back 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.
• Safeguarding the copyright, trademarks and patents of documents and designs in the company name.
• Ensuring that documents do not infringe other companies’ copyrights, trademarks, or patents.
• Maintaining document masters, and associated material to reproduce the same or similar documents at a later date.

Experience/Qualifications – Technical & Graphical Illustrator

• Engineering knowledge including understanding of electronics.
• Experience of illustration tools such as AutoCAD, CorelDraw, and Acrobat.

Candidates who are currently a Technical Author, Graphical Illustrator, Engineering Illustrator, Communications Author and Technical Illustrator could be suitable for this role.

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