Amentum is now hiring for several Technical Editor (All Levels) positions in support of the Field, Lab and Air Integration / Experimentation / Modeling and Risk Reduction (FLAIR) office at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD and other locations. This project will provide the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Research (C5ISR) Center services to include programmatic/business management services, engineering support services, field engineering, laboratory, logistics, and acquisition / administrative support services to augment FLAIR core Government personnel and turn-key solutions to support the missions of FLAIR and its associated Managers and customers. This support will be conducted in close coordination with Government project leads within FLAIR.

*** This position is contingent upon award ***

The candidate will perform the following duties:

• Refines work of writers, and heads and coordinates activities of writers engaged in preparing technical, scientific, medical, or other material for publication in conjunction with or independent from manufacturing, research, and related activities.

• Assigns staff writer or contracts with specialist in subject area to produce draft of manuscript.

• Oversees staff writers and delineates standard procedures for gathering data and writing.

• Analyzes developments in specific field to determine need for revisions, corrections, and changes in previously published materials and development of new material.

• Confers with customer representatives, vendors, plant executives, or publisher to establish technical specifications, determine specific or general subject material to be developed for publication, and resolve problems concerned with developing and publishing subject material.

• Reviews draft of manuscript and makes recommendations for changes.

• May edit and correct final draft to prepare for typesetting.

• May perform similar duties to those supervised. May select or recommend graphics, such as drawings, diagrams, pictures, and charts to illustrate manuscript.

• May specialize in particular type of publication, such as manuals, handbooks, articles, or proposals.

• Has experience in the edit of narrative and graphic products to identify and correct typographical and grammatical errors and to identify logical inconsistencies that will require author attention.

• Must have experience in gathering required data and inputs to create written narrative and graphic documents of a technical and business nature, ensuring grammatical, format, style, and logic while using a variety of word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and scheduling tools.

• Must be able to edit highly technical documents involving IT software and hardware systems and networks.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or other engineering or technical discipline is required.

• 1-10+ years of experience.

• 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.

• Must have an Active TOP SECRET US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to maintain a TOP SECRET Clearance. 

Compensation:

HIRING SALARY RANGE: $60,000 - $200,000 (Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant internal equity, and alignment with market data.).

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