Structured Communications

You may not be able to teach intelligence, but critical thinking can be
learned. Sometimes an engineer's experience will tell him the probable
cause of a problem, simply because he has seen it before. It's important to
take your time and think things through. Through a professional engineer
and technical copywriter, “technical writing is not just about language skills
– it's also about how we think.”

Being an excellent engineer or skilled mechanic is insufficient. You might be

the smartest person in the company because of how well you understand
what you're doing and how the answers were discovered.
(However, if you don't give much thought to how effectively you convey
what you know) it's likely that your value to the organization will decline
with each ineffective communication.