Graphical Illustrator

Permanent Graphical Illustrator position - London - Hybrid 3 days per week onsite

Job Scope

• To provide a drawing and illustration service
• To support the technical authors in the preparation, generation and maintenance of product and system manuals for Surveillance Systems products and other publications are required as part of the role.
• To support to the other Bid Team members, and in the preparation of bid documentation.
• To support of programme management, engineering activities and other support functions, including the production of customer project deliverables.
• To work with the other members of the Team, and management, to design, develop and implement agreed templates to enhance bid presentations and project a consistently high standard of brand image.

Job Functions (Essential)

• 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.
• Meeting contractual requirements regarding content, security, and unit operating procedures.
• Maintaining and handling of classified documents subject to security grade and potential UK restrictions.
• 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.
• Supervise the work of junior authors or trainees assigned to him/her from time-to-time.
• Ensuring that all requirements on security and health and safety under his/her control are dealt with as specified in company procedures.
• As required, liaison with MicroConcepts (CAD package provider).
• As required, administration of 'Vault' MicroConcepts storage facility.
• Development and maintenance of procedures associated with the technical publication's role.
• Any other tasks associated with this role.

Requirements

• Computer literate especially in the use of illustration tools such as AutoCAD, CorelDraw, and Acrobat, and in appropriate word processing packages such as Microsoft office.
• Attentive to detail
• Flexible in approach and able to prioritise and multi-task
• Good communicator, able to extract information from various engineers and sales personnel, sufficient to create or modify drawings and to edit/author documents successfully
• Confident in the manipulation of .pdf files