Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?
At Leica Microsystems, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.
You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. At Leica Microsystems, we have been shaping the future for over 175 years with groundbreaking optical and digital solutions. Here, you will work on meaningful projects alongside passionate colleagues, driving progress and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
As a Technical Writer, you will be part and work in a global, cross-functional team, to support the development of our latest innovations in the field of Life Science and Applied Solutions. You will coordinate and create product-specific online help in collaboration with various internal departments and external partners.
The goal is to provide our customers with comprehensive and high-quality online help to ensure their satisfaction and to support the success of their research.
This position reports to the Senior Manager Global Product Compliance and Technical User Documentation and is part of the Technical User Documentation located in Mannheim and Wetzlar. Create the online help. Preparation of data (text/graphics) and implementation in the online help. Testing of the created online help on demo devices/prototypes to verify quality and usability. Provision of the final localized online help in the required format.
Cross-site research and information gathering in the departments to compile product-specific information for documentation purposes in the online help.
Coordination of timing and content with the stakeholders and departments involved in the development process
Couple of years experience in the field of technical documentation and/or online-help
Very good written and verbal skills in English and German
Knowledge in relevant software tools like MadCap Flare
Programming and markup languages (HTML, XML, XSLT, etc.)
Leica Microsystems, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.