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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Oversees the technical editing of material for reports, memorandums, sales proposals, training materials, engineering specifications, meeting minutes, presentations, and other technical and administrative publications.
- Performs copyediting on technical documents according to the Chicago Manual of Style and Osborn’s in-house style guide.
- Reviews documents with a strategic lens to ensure they fulfill their intended purpose, asking clarifying questions and using editorial expertise to enhance clarity, flow, and audience understanding.
- Conducts research and ensures the use of proper technical and industry terminology; ensures consistency and accuracy of language use and acronym usage.
- Prioritizes editing focus based on the requested level of effort and time available for each project.
- As necessary or as requested, reorganizes, cuts, or rewrites document content.
- Reviews draft Word tables and figures to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text.
- Serves as the company subject matter expert on Microsoft Word and Excel formatting.
- Ensures documents meet ADA accessibility requirements and follow recommendations for accessible Word documents.
- Performs final formatting and production of documents, including compilation of PDFs.
- Manages the Osborn template library, creating new, easy-to-use Word templates and revising templates as needed.
- Manages the Osborn style guide and usage guide.
- Develops internal training to promote technical report writing skills.
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, communications, engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of related work experience
- Strong writing, technical editing, proofreading, and page composition skills.
- Strong Microsoft Suite skills, including formatting and report production.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines and work with multiple project managers concurrently.
- Flexibility to edit to requested level of effort and understand when lighter copyediting or more detailed line editing may be required.
- Strong attention to detail and takes ownership of managing workload.
- Experience in A/E/C industry strongly preferred.
- Experience in SpecsIntact is preferred but not required.
Benefits
Comp & perks- Competitive pay
- medical and dental insurance
- a 401K plan with matching
- PTO and holiday pay
- health and fitness stipend
- commute support
- profit sharing
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Hard Skills & Tools
technical editingcopyeditingproofreadingpage compositiondocument formattingreport productionresearchdocument content reorganizationADA accessibility compliancetemplate management
Soft Skills
strong writingattention to detailtime managementflexibilityownership of workloadstrategic thinkingclarifying questionsaudience understandingproject managementtraining development