Technical Editor Maassluis • Lely

As a Technical Editor at Lely, you ensure that our service technicians around the world have the right technical information at the right time. You develop clear, practical, and directly applicable content to support technicians in troubleshooting, maintenance, and installation of our innovative milking robot, the “Astronaut.”

Your primary focus will be creating structured troubleshooting workflows in our service app and composing our periodic technical newsletter.

You also play a key role in maintaining and updating technical documentation—whether driven by user feedback or your own initiative. To do this, you’ll collaborate with colleagues from product development and technical support to collect input, analyze it, and translate it into valuable content. Your main user in mind? The field technician who needs to act quickly and efficiently.

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain troubleshooting workflows in our service app tailored to the daily practice of technicians.
• Collect, analyze, and convert technical input into content in collaboration with engineers, service technicians, and product owners.
• Present technical documentation consistently and accessibly.
• Contribute to the improvement of content processes and enhance user-friendliness for service technicians.

Are you interested in this vacancy? Then we would like to ask you to add your CV and cover letter in English.

You are proactive and result-oriented, and you take pleasure in converting the knowledge of technical specialists into material that seamlessly meets the needs of our technicians. You work with precision, in a structured manner, and understand the importance of consistent documentation.

Furthermore, you bring the following:

• A completed bachelor’s degree (HBO level).
• Proven experience in structuring technical information and creating user-oriented content.
• A result-driven mindset: you work in a structured way and are able to meet deadlines while delivering the right outcomes.
• Excellent English writing and speaking skills (additional languages are a plus).
• You are currently living in the Netherlands and have a valid work permit.

In an international work environment driven by innovation, there are plenty of challenges and growth opportunities. Moreover, we offer you:

• An enthusiastic team that is collectively dedicated to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for the agricultural sector.
• Open and informal atmosphere.
• Excellent employment conditions, including 27 vacation days and 13 ADV days.
• A full-time salary scale ranging from € 3.500 en € 4.800,- gross per month.
• Flexible working hours.
• Freedom and independence in organizing your own work.
• The possibility to sell 6 roster-free days per year.
• Contribution to various insurance premiums.
• Our Lely Academy with a range of different courses.
• The Lely Gym where you can work on your physical and mental health free of charge, with among others our Lely Gym, Padel courts and group lessons.
• A dynamic role with plenty of room for your own initiative and input.

Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or secondment agency? We appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.

A sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotics, engineering, and farming expertise. That's what we believe in.

It all began 75 years ago with a dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Since then, we have been an innovative leader in automated systems for dairy farmers worldwide. With 2,400 specialized professionals, we constantly strive towards new agricultural revolutions. We operate not only from our Campus in Maassluis (the building with the highest sustainability performance in the Netherlands) but also from other international locations. Together, our aim is to make dairy farming interesting for the next generation.