Technical Writer

Location: Full-time onsite in Texarkana, Texas, at the Munitions & Government facility; 40% travel to company worksites and customer locations required.

Salary: $68,480–$102,720 per year.

Company

Day & Zimmermann operates across government, commercial, and industrial sectors, including munitions and plant operations.

What you will do

• Review solicitations, statements of work, specifications, and customer documents to identify requirements, evaluation factors, and deliverables.
• Develop, edit, and proofread technical, management, and operational proposal sections with subject-matter experts.
• Build and maintain compliance matrices, outlines, templates, and checklists.
• Coordinate inputs and timelines across engineering, operations, finance, contracts, quality assurance, and supply chain.
• Research markets, customer priorities, and competitors to strengthen proposal messaging.
• Format, compile, archive, and maintain proposal documents, resumes, past-performance records, and content libraries.

Requirements

• Associate’s degree in English, communications, technical writing, business, journalism, marketing, engineering technology, project management, or a comparable discipline.
• At least two years of experience in proposal writing, technical writing, research, contracts support, or business development support.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills are required.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and shared content repositories.
• Strong analytical, research, organizational, editing, proofreading, and communication skills.
• Ability to regularly perform all job functions at the company office or worksite and travel 40%.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in arts, sciences, or a related field.
• Experience with proposal processes in government or industrial procurement environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage.
• Life, AD&D, and disability insurance.
• Flexible spending accounts and voluntary benefit programs, including pet insurance.
• Paid maternity leave for up to 12 weeks, parental leave, family leave, and other paid time off.