Senior Technical Editor

Level: Senior

Location: McLean, VA / Washington, DC (onsite and offsite support as authorized by the customer).

Clearance: No Clearance Required. However the agency will conduct a National Agency Check and Inquiries (with fingerprinting), which consists of searches of records covering specific areas of a person's background during the past five (5) years. Those inquiries are sent to current and past employers, schools attended, references, and local law enforcement authorities.

Education: Master's degree in English, Journalism, or a technical field

Outcomes:

The successful candidate is expected to accomplish the following outcomes in the first year on the position:
• Deliver accurate, high-quality, accessible, and timely products and services that meet FHWA requirements and support positive Government performance feedback.
• Identify and resolve quality, coordination, schedule, or technical issues early enough to prevent customer or mission impact.

Responsibilities:
• Oversee the entire editorial process for high-stakes technical documentation, ensuring stylistic consistency across large-scale programs and mentoring junior staff.
• Transform raw data and engineering jargon into authoritative documents that meet the stringent requirements of the agency, including reference checking, fact checking, and ensuring copyright compliance.
• Conduct substantive editing, verify technical accuracy, and ensure compliance with agency style guides for all documents, reports, and manuals.
• Apply and enforce the GPO Style Manual, Chicago Manual of Style, FHWA guidance, Section 508 accessibility requirements, and copyright/permission requirements.
• Review complex schematics, tables, figures, references, and supporting content for integration, consistency, accuracy, and readability.
• Manage the full lifecycle of a document from outline to final publication including online and web publishing.
• Mentor and provide quality oversight to junior editors and writers and assign editorial work based on schedule and complexity.
• Coordinate with authors, researchers, technical SMEs, designers, project managers, Public Affairs, legal reviewers, and other stakeholders

Qualifications:
• 10+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in technical editing, writing, publishing, or related editorial work.
• Supervisory and project management experience supporting complex editorial and publication workflows.
• Expert-level command of English grammar, substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, and Federal publishing standards.
• Expert knowledge of the GPO Style Manual and ability to apply Section 508 accessibility requirements to online and web products.
• Ability to work independently and manage high-stakes documents from initial development through final publication.

The following qualifications are desired:
• Transportation experience, especially highway or surface transportation research.
• Federal technical publishing experience.
• Experience editing large technical reports, manuals, and complex engineering content.

Travel: Continental U.S. (CONUS) travel may be required to attend customer meetings, program reviews, stakeholder engagements, training events, conferences, production activities, or mission-related activities as directed.

Other Requirements:

We seek:
• Highly motivated self-starters
• Resourceful individuals with extraordinary intellectual capability and the ability to rapidly learn and apply new concepts
• Individuals who have a "let me try" attitude and are resilient, present an opinion/position, justify it, and then accept whatever decision is made and charge forward
• Individuals who view criticism as an opportunity to improve ("let me try again")
• Individuals who think and create, enhancing the company with a steady flow of fresh ideas, perspective, and energy.

Direct Inquiries and Resumes to our Talent Management Team:
Yashira Santiago
Andrew Ackley
Gabriel Mira
Mitchell Jimenez
Gemini Industries Inc.
Telephone: (813) 286 - 4777