Job#: 3035297

Job Description:

Location: Houston, Texas or Pittsburgh, PA offices

Schedule: Onsite preferred (Flex for Partial Remote)

Employment Type: 6+ Month W2 Contract

An experienced Technical Writer is sought for a large-scale power plant maintenance and operations initiative. This role involves developing, organizing, and maintaining detailed technical documentation for maintenance, outage, and restart activities across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation and controls disciplines. This position is part of a long-term project supporting critical infrastructure.

• Develop, edit, and maintain technical documentation, including maintenance work packages, job plans, procedures, and task sequencing.
• Translate complex technical input from engineering, maintenance, and operations teams into clear written documentation.
• Support preventive and corrective maintenance documentation efforts.
• Assist with scoping work orders and documenting labor, materials, tools, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, maintenance, and planning teams to ensure documentation readiness and accuracy.
• Utilize maintenance management systems to support documentation and work planning activities.
• Support outage, turnaround, and restart documentation requirements.
• Ensure documentation aligns with safety, regulatory, and organizational standards.
• Provide documentation support to scheduling and execution teams as needed.

Experience: 3–5+ years of technical writing experience in an industrial, energy, utilities, or highly regulated environment. Experience working with maintenance or asset management systems is required. The role requires experience documenting maintenance activities involving pumps, valves, piping, rotating equipment, and instrumentation.

Technical Skills: The ability to interpret mechanical, electrical, and I&C documentation, drawings, and procedures is necessary. Candidates must have the capacity to work independently in a remote environment and collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

• Experience supporting power generation facilities or large industrial sites.
• Familiarity with maintenance planning, outage planning, or major maintenance initiatives.
• Exposure to scheduling tools.
• Experience documenting electrical or instrumentation and controls systems in addition to mechanical systems.
• Experience working in highly regulated or safety-conscious environments.

The pay rate for this position is between $55.00 and $70.00 per hour. Compensation may vary based on factors such as experience, skills, and location. Eligible employees may be offered a benefits package.

This employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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