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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 Writer
Document your degree field precisely
PERM requires your degree to align with the specific Writer role being sponsored. A communications or journalism degree supports most editorial positions, but a creative writing or liberal arts degree may need supplemental documentation showing it meets the job's educational requirements.
Target publishers with established PERM history
Media companies, corporate content teams, and university publishing houses file PERM sponsorships more consistently than small agencies. Search DOL's foreign labor certification disclosure data to identify which employers have sponsored Writer roles in the past two years.
Separate your writing portfolio from your resume
PERM job descriptions focus on minimum requirements, not accomplishments. Prepare a separate portfolio that demonstrates specialty occupation depth, such as technical writing, grant writing, or specialized editorial work, since your published clips will matter more during the I-140 stage than your resume formatting.
Search green card sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Filtering by employers who have sponsored Writer or content roles historically saves weeks of manual research. Migrate Mate surfaces companies with active green card filing history, so you can focus your applications on employers already familiar with PERM sponsorship obligations.
Clarify sponsorship scope before accepting an offer
Some employers will sponsor an H-1B visa but not a green card, or will only agree to EB-3 rather than EB-2. Ask directly during the offer stage which preference category the employer will file under and whether they use outside counsel or handle PERM filings in-house.
Understand how the prevailing wage affects your offer
DOL sets a prevailing wage for each Writer position based on job duties, location, and experience level using OFLC Wage Search. Your offered salary must meet or exceed that level throughout the PERM process, so confirm the wage determination before you negotiate your compensation.
Green Card Writer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Writer role qualify as a specialty occupation for green card sponsorship?
Yes, Writer positions typically qualify under EB-2 or EB-3 when the employer can demonstrate the role normally requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as journalism, English, or communications. Technical writers, grant writers, and editorial roles with specialized subject matter often meet this threshold more clearly than general content roles, so the specific job duties listed in the PERM application matter significantly.
How does PERM green card sponsorship differ from H-1B sponsorship for writers?
H-1B sponsorship is temporary, capped at 65,000 new visas annually, and subject to lottery selection. PERM green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the EB-3 level for most countries outside India and China, and it leads to permanent residency rather than a temporary status. The process is longer overall, typically two to four years from PERM filing to a green card, but it removes the uncertainty of lottery-based approval.
How can I find employers who sponsor green cards for Writer jobs?
Migrate Mate lets you search specifically for employers with documented green card sponsorship history in writing and content roles. This is more reliable than filtering general job postings, since most employers don't advertise PERM sponsorship upfront. Focusing on companies that have already completed the PERM process for similar roles significantly improves your chances of securing a sponsoring offer.
What happens to my green card case if I change employers mid-process?
If you change employers after your I-140 petition has been approved for more than 180 days, you may be able to port your priority date to a new employer's petition in the same or a similar occupational classification under AC21 portability rules. For writers, a move from one editorial role to a comparable writing position at a new company generally qualifies, but your new employer must file a fresh PERM labor certification.
Does the specific type of writing work I do affect which EB preference category I qualify for?
Yes. EB-2 requires the position to normally demand an advanced degree or its equivalent, while EB-3 covers roles requiring at least a bachelor's degree. Highly specialized writing roles, such as medical writing, legal writing, or policy analysis, more readily support an EB-2 classification. General content writing or copywriting roles are more commonly sponsored under EB-3, which is still a fully viable path to a green card for most nationalities.