Technical Writer I

Additional Location(s): US-MA-Marlborough; US-MA-Boston

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:
The technical writer will work as a team member on the Global Medical Affairs team to support technical writing activities for the cross-divisional Clinical Risk teams. The tech writer will assist clinical evaluation authors to revise, organize, plan, gather, summarize, edit, and proofread documents and maintain project records. The Technical Writer will support the editing of clinical evaluation documents such as Clinical Evaluation Reports (CERs), Clinical Evaluation Plans (CEPs), Post Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF) Plans, PMCF Evaluation Reports, and Summary of Safety and Clinical Performance (SSCP) reports. Your efforts support documentation of benefit/risk profiles for the Boston Scientific portfolio devices.
Your responsibilities will include:

• Clearly and correctly state and summarize technical information in documents.
• Assist clinical evaluation authors with gathering, compiling, and/or verifying information and data from source documents.
• Review formatting to ensure technical and stylistic consistency.
• Use the document management system (Windchill) to access documentation, initiate change notices, and maintain documentation in line with regulations / standards and BSC requirements on document control aspects.
• In all actions, demonstrates a primary commitment to patient safety and product quality by maintaining compliance to the Quality Policy and all other documented quality processes and procedures.
• Perform proofreading for grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and formatting errors.
• Support reference management using EndNote.
• Apply corporate and regulatory documentation requirements.
• Interface cross-functionally within project teams to acquire source material for documents and to develop understanding of the products and processes.
• Manage, organize, and communicate project information and project activities.

Required qualifications:

• Ability to work both in collaboration with others on a project team and independently on tasks.
• Able to work quickly and efficiently on documents and tasks while still maintaining high quality in work
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel (e.g., sorting, filtering, pivot tables, navigation)
• Strong writing, editing, and communication skills
• Project management and time management skills
• 1 - 3 years of technical writing experience
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving skills and an ability to respond and adapt to change
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Word (e.g., Experience working in long large [shared] documents, styles (headers, tables, figures, text), word formatting, cross-referencing, update/refreshing of cross-references/fields)
• Aptitude to understand engineering and other technical information
• Proactive work habits and assertiveness in creating and owning documents

Preferred qualifications:

• Knowledge with using EndNote as a reference manager in Microsoft Word preferred
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, degree in technical writing, or related technical field such as engineering or biology preferred
• Working knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint

Requisition ID: 564101

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