Technical Editor - Landover, United States - Peraton

Peraton

Verified Company

Landover, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

About Peraton

Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a motivated
Technical Editor to join our team at our Landover, MD office.

Our program provides full life cycle support for a large Information Technology (IT) system for the Department of Defense (DoD).

This program delivers full life-cycle engineering support for all system elements including Development (hardware, software and networks), Systems and Security Engineering (Integration, testing and Deployment), Sustainment (Logistics, and field support), Network Operations Center (NOC)/Help Desk, and Government user training support for user community.

Technical editing is a collaborative process of generating content with authors to check the correctness of specialized terminology, equations, and combinability of textual and visual elements.

In this role you will be reviewing, editing, improving written technical documents or technical materials prior to publication.

The
Technical Editor will be responsible for but not limited to:

Edit documents to ensure compliance with style, design, layout, specification, and grammar and spelling requirements.
Edit, format, and maintain documents including, but not limited to program plans, system test reports, procedures, design documentation, requirements, user manuals, training materials, presentations, meeting minutes, and reports.
Conduct quality review of materials and provide peer review of program documents.
Manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

This role is required to provide support, on-site, Mon-Fri

This program does allow for a flexible work schedule and is walking distance from a Metro station

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

An active Top Secret/ SCI Security Clearance.
Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related+ discipline and five (5) years of relevant experience, or Masters Degree and three (3) years of experience, or a PhD and zero (0) years of expeience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Must have atleast two (2) years experience in MS Office Suite with proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Skills must include ability to create and modify styles, forms, and templates.
Must possess excellent communications and interpersonal skills, be proactive, possess excellent problemsolving and organizational skills, and be selfmotivated.

Desired Qualifications:

Experience drafting technical documents and SOPS
Expert knowledge of MS Office Products
Experience working with Jira and Confluence
Experience with a version control system
Experience with LibreOffice

Salary Range Estimates:

The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Peraton's total compensation package for employees.

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO
An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily.

We're fully committed to the growth of our employees.

From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.