Senior Technical Writer

Senior Technical Advisor – Defence & Communications

Redhill, Surrey | Hybrid (3–4 days onsite) - £60,000–£70,000 + Bonus + Benefits

We’re hiring an experienced Senior Technical Advisor to support complex defence and communications projects within a fast-paced SME environment.

This role is ideal for a technically strong engineer with excellent technical writing skills and experience producing customer-facing technical documentation, bids, and compliance artefacts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Produce technical proposals, requirement responses & compliance matrices

• Support bids, tenders & technical solution development

• Work across engineering, delivery & business development teams

• Manage multiple technical workstreams simultaneously

Essential Experience:

• Degree-qualified engineering/technical background

• Strong technical authoring experience (personally written proposals, reports, system descriptions, compliance documentation etc.)

• Experience in defence, EMC, safety, or regulated technical environments

• Comfortable working in an SME environment with fast context switching and ambiguity

• Able to attend Redhill office routinely (3–4 days/week)

Desirable:

• RF, EW/SIGINT, embedded systems, UAS, or defence systems experience

• UK Engineering Council registration

Please be happy to provide:

• Confirmation of practical commute to Redhill

• Examples of technical artefacts personally authored

• Evidence of working across multiple technical disciplines/projects