Technical Editor Job Opening

The candidate will serve as a technical editor for a program preparing to go through DoD acquisition milestones. Documents to be edited may include but are not limited to systems engineering plans, acquisition strategy, software support plans, and various reports, briefs, and standard operating procedures (SOPs). Prefer recent professional experience performing technical editing in support of the DoD acquisition community and excellent word processing skills.

Responsibilities:

• Developing/maintaining document, brief, and worksheet templates and libraries.
• Incorporating consistent tables, graphs, charts, and/or multiple column spreadsheets into technical reports without format error.
• Editing and delivering reports involving complex and lengthy technical data.
• Editing documents with multiple contributors under strict deadlines.
• Strictly adhering to company and customer-provided guidelines for documentation configuration management.
• Work in a fast-paced environment while balancing multiple priorities.

Education: Bachelor's degree is preferred, but not required.

Required Skills & Experience:

• At least five years of experience using Microsoft Office products to perform technical editing functions; specifically mastery of advanced functions for MS Word (e.g., style development/application, formatting, templates, etc.) and PowerPoint (e.g., slide master development, animations and layering, etc.), and competent use of MS Excel (e.g., formulas, conditional formatting, cross-sheet linking, etc.
• 1-2 years’ experience with Adobe Acrobat Professional (e.g., document conversions, document security, form development, etc.)
• 1-2 years’ experience with MS SharePoint

Security Clearance Level: Active Secret Clearance

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.