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- 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.
- Collaborate with authors, assigned stakeholders, and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to gain better understanding of subject matter.
- Conduct quality review of materials and provide peer review of program documents.
- Manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- 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
- Must have at-least two (2) years experience in MS Office Suite with proficiency in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- Must possess excellent communications and interpersonal skills, be proactive, possess excellent problem-solving and organizational skills, and be self-motivated
- 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
- Paid Time-Off and Holidays
- Retirement
- Life & Disability Insurance
- Career Development
- Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
- Paid Parental Leave
- Additional Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Care
Technical Editor with Security Clearance - Greater Landover, MD, United States - Peraton
Description
About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxyAs the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies
Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace
The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S
armed forces
Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers
Visit to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
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:
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:
Desired Qualifications:
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.