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Technical Writer

Canon USA & Affiliates

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Compensation
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Location
Remote · US
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
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Job overview

Canon Business Process Services is seeking a Technical Writer for a work-from-home opportunity based in one of several listed locations. The role reviews technical documents and develops, writes, and edits technical content, including gas turbine maintenance procedures. It requires understanding complex scientific information and strong writing skills, with work involving engineering teams, document revision control, digital libraries, and workflow systems.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Technical WritingGas Turbine MaintenanceGas Turbine AssemblyDocument CreationRevision ControlWorkflow FormsTechnical ProceduresMicrosoft ProductsMicrosoft WordMicrosoft ExcelAdobeDocument FormattingDocument PublishingGraphics CreationGraphics ModificationEnglish Communication

Qualifications

Gas Turbine Maintenance or Assembly ExperienceField Engineering or GT Manufacturing BackgroundFormal Document Creation TrainingTechnical Writing ExperienceAssociate's in Technical Writing or High School With 2+ Years Technical Document Design2+ Years Technical Document Design

Benefits

Tuition Assistance

Full job description

Overview

Canon Business Process Services has an excellent, work from home opportunity. This role can be based in Schenectady, NY, Atlanta, GA, Greenville, SC or Houston, TX.

The Technical Writer will be responsible for reviewing technical documents to develop, write, and edit a broad range of technical content. The Technical Writer must be able to understand complex scientific information, theories, and practices in addition to possessing strong writing skills.

Responsibilities

Duties to be performed:

  • Review and understand arrangement, assembly and schematic drawings/diagrams

  • Review and compare Bills of Materials (BOMs) for New Product Introduction (NPI) including new units and new outage tooling

  • Review and compare mechanical configurations to revise GT maintenance procedures or create new ones based on design enhancements

  • Write, revise, proofread, review, standardize, and digitize GT disassembly, inspection, repair, and reassembly procedures and inspection forms

  • Collaborate with Productivity Engineering to update Field Procedures as required for NPI tooling development

  • Collaborate with regional Field Engineering teams to simplify and improve Field Procedures

  • Maintain revision control of created and/or revised procedures and documents

  • Create procedures based on standardized templates

  • Convert legacy/previous formatting to latest formatting

  • Work with databases, digital libraries and workflow systems

  • Create One-Page sign-off Field Procedures affecting gas turbine maintenance outages, Field Engineers (FE) and Craft Labor

  • Convert existing FP’s into “fillable PDF” format, enabling mobile devices and simplifying/digitizing outage document retention

  • Apply and maintain metadata tags on created/revised documents. The tags are used in the Master Index search, which is used by over 10,000 FE’s and operations personnel to locate the documents in the Library. Keep library and master index in sync.

  • Self-sufficient interaction with multiple design teams/engineers to secure content necessary for procedure creation/revision

  • Graphics: Experienced in creations and modifications of Fields Procedures, Forms and other documents

Qualifications

  • Gas Turbine maintenance and/or assembly experience. Field Engineering background or GT manufacturing experience.

  • Formal training in document creation and revision control, basic Work Flow Form. Experience in writing technical procedures or documents

  • Microsoft Product knowledge and demonstrated skill set

  • Expertise in MS Word, Excel and Adobe to edit/fix/publish/format the documents. Perform formatting, administration, and publishing tasks

  • Graphics: Experienced in creation and modification of Field Procedures, Forms and other documents

  • Associates Degree in Technical writing or High school diploma with 2 plus years in technical document design, compliance to standards and printing industry.

  • Strong English language communication capability, both verbal and written

What We Offer:

Competitive pay & benefits!

Comprehensive training and development programs that prepare employees to advance from within.

A company focused on creating a positive work and client environment.

Employee discounts on entertainment, products, and services nationwide!

Come Join Our Team!

Job Locations US-SC-Greenville

Posted Date (10/27/2026 4:50 PM)

Requisition ID 2026-21821

# of Openings 1

Category (Portal Searching) Operations

Position Type (Portal Searching) Regular Full-Time

Canon is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Minority/Female/Individuals with Disabilities/Veteran. We value the diversity of our workforce and knowledge of our people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, disability, genetic information or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Click on the following links to learn more "EEO is the Law" poster, "EEO is the Law" poster supplement, NLRA "Employee Rights" poster and Canon’s Pay Transparency Statement.

Canon is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation in order to complete an employment application, or during the application process, please e-mail us at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 785 open Technical Writer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • US median$80–132K/yr450 salary ranges
  • US median$36–41/hr134 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 10 open Technical Writer jobs in South Carolina and 785 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most across the US
Experience
Technical Writer postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (523 postings).
Education
192 of the 785 open Technical Writer jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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