Senior Technical Author and Illustrator - L&T Technology Services Bengaluru - Bengaluru
(2022-09)
A Senior Technical Author and Illustrator creates clear, accurate documentation and illustrations to support engineering, manufacturing, and maintenance. Combining technical expertise with strong communication and visualization skills, the role involves producing user manuals, service guides, assembly instructions, and illustrated parts catalogs.
- Lead a team of 7–8 illustrators, overseeing illustration quality, delivery schedules, and final QA for automotive aftermarket documentation.
- Managed the Hero (Chaina Market) Illustrations project end-to-end: coordinated engineering inputs, created high-fidelity exploded views and assembly illustrations, and ensured delivery to SCANIA standards.
- Analysed ECOs for SCANIA buses and trucks and converted 3D Experience/CATIA V5 data into publication-ready illustrations using Iso-Draw.
- Created and maintained spare parts lists in SACS and exported part profiles to SVG for manuals and catalogs.
- Implemented checklist-based verification and final review processes; mentored junior illustrators and performed final quality checks on team outputs.
- Coordinated harness routing illustrations and applied harness ECO changes in collaboration with engineering and wiring teams.
Junior Technical Illustrator - Umlaut Private Limited Bengaluru - Bengaluru
(2018-11 - 2022-08)
- Created illustrations for AMM, IPC, CMM, IPL manuals per Airbus standards (ATA iSpec 2200).
- Worked on Airbus CMM manuals for A-350 (XWB), A-320 (SA), A-380 (MB).
- Used Tech Illustrator and Iso-Draw with inputs from Enovia design models, engineering drawings, EDZ, and Product Viewer.
- Analysed engineering drawings to ensure accuracy and quality in technical content.
- Created illustrations using Umlaut Tec-Draw (UI), a tool developed within the organization with our practical input to enhance efficiency; this tool was later adopted by the business for standardized illustration creation tool.
- Followed Airbus tech pub guides including PRD0063.0, TDS0002 and TDG005.
- Performed quality checks to meet high standards and timelines.
- Drafted, revised, and updated technical manuals and documentation.
- Led team coordination and quickly resolved documentation issues.
- Maintained strict adherence to delivery timelines and QA targets.
