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Job Title
Technical Writer II

Location
Belmont, CA

Job Description
This is a temporary position for up to 3 months.  
As part of Technical Communications, technical writers are responsible for writing service, training, customer manuals, and other documents to support Nikon semiconductor equipment. Documents come from several sources, including Advanced Engineering, Applications, Service, Technology, Pre-Installation Engineering, Training, etc. Technical writers work with the document owner (the author or person responsible for getting the document published) to develop a grammatically-correct and well-written English language document in a standard format, to have it adequately reviewed (both internally and, if necessary, in Japan), to finalize the document, and to have it approved for release.  Technical writers must be able to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously while producing consistently high-quality documents on sometimes tight deadlines. Some travel may be required.

• BS/BA and/or 2-3 years of industry/equiv. experience
  
• Excellent oral and written communications skills (English)
• Basic to intermediate FrameMaker skills, including cross-references, TOC, Index generation, graphics placement, and using styles; intermediate MS Office and Adobe Acrobat skills, including PDF file extraction; intermediate skills to generate PDF
• Must have strong customer focus and be able to interact successfully with people at all levels in a highly multicultural workplace
  
• Enthusiastic self-starter with excellent organizational and project management skills
• Shows commitment to tasks and is adaptable to rapidly changing situations and timelines
  
• Works effectively in teams, many of those teams being cross-functional
• Understands the consequences of his/her actions and knows how to get things done in corporate structure
• Familiarity with web-based training desirable

About Nikon Precision Incorporated
Nikon Precision Inc. is an industry leader in supplying advanced photolithography equipment used in the critical stages of semiconductor manufacturing.  Headquartered in Belmont, California, Nikon Precision is the North American subsidiary of Nikon Corporation (NikonÔ), a world leader in development and manufacturing of advanced optical and precision equipment.  Nikon designs and manufactures precision equipment for use in semiconductor and liquid crystal display ("LCD") fabrication, inspection, and measurement.  Nikon also designs and manufactures visual imaging products including cameras; instruments such as microscopes; and other products such as chemical mechanical polishing ("CMP") systems, binoculars, surveying instruments, and eyewear.

NPI offers excellent salaries and benefits, including an incentive compensation plan, profit-sharing plan, 401(K) plan with automatic, annual Company contributions.

We are an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Title
Technical Writer III

Location
Belmont, CA

Job Description
As part of Technical Communications, technical writers are responsible for writing service, training, customer manuals, and other documents to support Nikon semiconductor equipment. Documents come from several sources, including Advanced Engineering, Applications, Service, Technology, Pre-Installation Engineering, Training, etc. Works with the document owner (the author or person responsible for getting the document published) to develop a grammatically-correct and well-written English language document in a standard format, have it adequately reviewed—both internally and, if necessary, in Japan—finalize the document, and have it approved for release. Must be able to successfully manage multiple projects at the same time while producing high-quality documents on sometimes tight deadlines. In addition to updating/correcting existing documents, also creates original documents, collaborating in-depth with various subject matter experts and document owners. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action. Interacts frequently with functional peer groups. Normally receives general instructions on routine and new work. Some travel may be required

• BS/BA and/or 4-6 years experience technical writing for the semiconductor industry or at least 6 years other technical writing experience
• Excellent oral and written communications skills,
• Enthusiastic self-starter
• Excellent organizational skills
• Must have strong customer focus and be able to interact successfully with people at all levels in a highly multicultural workplace
• Acts with integrity - follows through on commitments - and supports corporate initiatives
• Shows commitment to tasks/projects and is adaptable to rapidly-changing situations and timelines
• Works effectively in teams, many of those teams being cross-functional, as well as independently
• Understands the consequences of his/her actions and knows how to get things done
• Intermediate to advanced  FrameMaker skills, including cross-refs, TOC, Index generation, and using styles
• Intermediate to advanced MS Office and Adobe Acrobat skills, including PDF file extraction and conversion to other applications
• Intermediate to advanced XML authoring skills required; familiarity with DITA standards a plus
• Experience with web-based training development desirable

About Nikon Precision Incorporated
Nikon Precision Inc. is an industry leader in supplying advanced photolithography equipment used in the critical stages of semiconductor manufacturing.  Headquartered in Belmont, California, Nikon Precision is the North American subsidiary of Nikon Corporation (NikonÔ), a world leader in development and manufacturing of advanced optical and precision equipment.  Nikon designs and manufactures precision equipment for use in semiconductor and liquid crystal display ("LCD") fabrication, inspection, and measurement.  Nikon also designs and manufactures visual imaging products including cameras; instruments such as microscopes; and other products such as chemical mechanical polishing ("CMP") systems, binoculars, surveying instruments, and eyewear.

NPI offers excellent salaries and benefits, including an incentive compensation plan, profit-sharing plan, 401(K) plan with automatic, annual Company contributions.

We are an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Title
Technical Communications Assistant – Part Time

Location
Belmont, CA

• Solely responsible for delivering manual orders to instructors (and verifying delivery/receipt), scanning and photocopying as needed, and archiving materials/files.  
• Coordinates with NPIU staff to deliver materials to classrooms (including off-site classes in the Bay Area), including printing tent cards, stocking pens and tablets, flip charts, etc.; also responsible for after-class tear down and clean-up.  Must know where the NPIU classroom supplies are and organize them for delivery and setup.  
• Training support includes:
  
  • filing (customer and internal class folders after class completion)
  • reserving conference rooms for training
  • entering data in learning management system (adding new customer enrollments)
  • verifying class attendance and  attendance status changes, printing and distributing certificates, posting new classes in Athena (customers and internal)
  • coordinating OEM training (e. g, requesting training attendance reports from vendor, allocating and tracking vendor credits, sending class enrollments to vendor, sending vendor confirmation letters to students and following up on test connections, sending vendor manuals to each student (customers and internal), verifying manual delivery/receipt)
    

• Excellent oral and written communications skills, enthusiastic self-starter, excellent organizational skills.
• Must have strong customer focus and be able to interact successfully with people at all levels in a highly multicultural workplace. Acts with integrity - follows through on commitments. Shows commitment to tasks and is adaptable to rapidly changing situations and timelines.
• Basic to intermediate MS Office, computer, and web skills.
• Ideal candidate is a college student for this part-time internship (~20 hours/week).
  

We are an Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.