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.