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Get Access To All JobsAt ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
This position reports to:
Quality & Operations Excellence Manager
As a Technical Writer supporting ABB’s Motion Drive Products business, you will turn complex technical and manufacturing information into clear, accurate, and user-friendly documentation that helps teams and customers use products and processes effectively. In this hybrid role, you will work closely with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, and testing teams to create, improve, and standardize manuals, work instructions, SOPs, specifications, and other key documentation.
The work model for the role is: Hybrid in New Berlin, WI.
Your role and responsibilities:
- Create, edit, and maintain technical documentation including user manuals, work instructions, standard operating procedures, requirements, specifications, and related product documentation.
- Partner with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, testing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to gather technical information and translate complex content into clear, user-friendly documentation.
- Review and improve existing documentation to increase consistency, accuracy, usability, and standardization across products and processes.
- Coordinate document reviews and approvals, ensuring documentation stays current with product changes, operational needs, and internal standards.
Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.
Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree Communications, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience; OR Associate’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience creating technical documentation such as manuals, publications, work instructions, SOPs, specifications, or similar materials.
- Experience gathering requirements and collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts into clear, easy-to-follow documentation.
- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
- Experience in power electronics, industrial automation, electronic manufacturing, or variable frequency drives (VFDs) is strongly preferred.
- Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
More about us
ABB Drive Products serves the industries and infrastructure segments with world-class drives and programmable logic controllers (PLC). With its products, global scale and local presence, the Division helps customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety.
What's in it for you
We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.
ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees
[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on “Candidate/Guest” to learn more
Health, Life & Disability
- Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
- Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner—and every person here makes that happen. You’ll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.
This position reports to:
Quality & Operations Excellence Manager
As a Technical Writer supporting ABB’s Motion Drive Products business, you will turn complex technical and manufacturing information into clear, accurate, and user-friendly documentation that helps teams and customers use products and processes effectively. In this hybrid role, you will work closely with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, and testing teams to create, improve, and standardize manuals, work instructions, SOPs, specifications, and other key documentation.
The work model for the role is: Hybrid in New Berlin, WI.
Your role and responsibilities:
- Create, edit, and maintain technical documentation including user manuals, work instructions, standard operating procedures, requirements, specifications, and related product documentation.
- Partner with R&D, engineering, operations, quality, testing, and other cross-functional stakeholders to gather technical information and translate complex content into clear, user-friendly documentation.
- Review and improve existing documentation to increase consistency, accuracy, usability, and standardization across products and processes.
- Coordinate document reviews and approvals, ensuring documentation stays current with product changes, operational needs, and internal standards.
Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there.
Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree Communications, Engineering, Business, or a related field and 2+ years of relevant experience; OR Associate’s degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.
- Experience creating technical documentation such as manuals, publications, work instructions, SOPs, specifications, or similar materials.
- Experience gathering requirements and collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts into clear, easy-to-follow documentation.
- Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
- Experience in power electronics, industrial automation, electronic manufacturing, or variable frequency drives (VFDs) is strongly preferred.
- Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.
More about us
ABB Drive Products serves the industries and infrastructure segments with world-class drives and programmable logic controllers (PLC). With its products, global scale and local presence, the Division helps customers to improve energy efficiency, productivity and safety.
What's in it for you
We want you to bring your full self to work—your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You’ll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.
ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.
For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to US-AskHR@abb.com. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees
[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]
Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on “Candidate/Guest” to learn more
Health, Life & Disability
- Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
- Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
- Vision benefit
- Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
- Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
- Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
- Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
- Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to “buy-up” to 66 2/3% of pay.
- Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
- Employee discount program
Retirement
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
Time off
ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
Ready to make an impact?
Apply today or visit https://www.abb.com to learn more about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Senior Technical Writer
Align your portfolio to PERM job requirements
PERM certification locks in the minimum qualifications your employer will list. Before your employer files, confirm your portfolio demonstrates exactly those qualifications, since USCIS will verify your credentials match the certified job description at I-140 adjudication.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Use the OFLC Wage Search to filter employers who have filed PERM applications for technical writer roles. Companies with recent certifications already understand the documentation burden and are far less likely to abandon sponsorship mid-process.
Search green card sponsoring jobs on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by green card sponsorship availability, so you can surface Senior Technical Writer openings at employers who have already committed to the PERM process rather than cold-applying and asking later.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 during salary negotiations
If your role requires an advanced degree or specialized knowledge that meets EB-2 criteria, request that your employer file under EB-2. EB-3 is faster to certify in some cases but EB-2 priority dates are generally current for more countries of birth.
Verify your employer's O*NET job zone classification
DOL's O*NET classifies Senior Technical Writer under Job Zone 4, which requires a bachelor's degree and work experience. Confirm your employer's PERM job description references this classification to avoid a prevailing wage determination that undersells the role.
Get the offer letter language reviewed before signing
Ask your employer to confirm the offer letter specifies PERM sponsorship, not just H-1B visa transfer. A letter that says only 'visa sponsorship available' doesn't obligate the employer to initiate the labor certification required for permanent residency.
Green Card Senior Technical Writer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior Technical Writer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Senior Technical Writer roles typically qualify under EB-3 as skilled worker positions requiring a bachelor's degree in technical communication, English, or a related field. If the role requires an advanced degree or specialized expertise in a regulated industry such as medical devices or aerospace, your employer may file under EB-2 instead. The qualifying tier depends on how the employer defines minimum job requirements in the PERM application.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B sponsorship grants temporary work authorization for up to six years and is subject to an annual lottery for cap-subject petitions. PERM-based green card sponsorship is a permanent immigration pathway with no annual cap at the petition stage. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification alone takes six to twelve months before the I-140 filing, and priority date waiting periods can extend the total process by years depending on your country of birth.
What documentation do I need to support a PERM application as a technical writer?
Your employer files PERM, but you'll need to provide official transcripts confirming your degree, a detailed employment history matching the job description, and evidence of any required certifications such as technical communication credentials. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation from a NACES-recognized evaluator is typically required for DOL to confirm educational equivalency.
How do I find Senior Technical Writer jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Most job postings don't specify green card sponsorship, which makes targeted searching difficult. Migrate Mate filters listings by employers who actively sponsor employment-based green cards, so you can identify Senior Technical Writer openings without spending time on roles where sponsorship isn't available. Focusing on companies with PERM filing history in technical documentation roles significantly improves your odds of a sponsored offer.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved but before I get my green card?
Under AC21 portability, you can change employers after your I-140 has been approved and your adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days, as long as the new role is in the same or similar occupational classification. For Senior Technical Writers, a move to a comparable documentation role at a different company generally qualifies, but you should have an immigration attorney review the new job description before you resign.