Senior Technical Editor — Federal Transport Lead

Nexight Group; Silver Spring (MD); Híbrido; USD 120.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Nexight Group seeks an experienced Senior Technical Editor to lead editorial quality for a high-volume portfolio of technical publications supporting a federal transportation client. The role requires strong editorial judgment, technical editing expertise, and leadership to guide writers and editors across complex workflows.

The position involves ensuring accuracy, clarity, and publication readiness across print, web, and digital formats, while maintaining compliance with federal requirements

Formación

• Master's degree required in English, Journalism, or a technical field.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in technical editing, writing, publishing, or related technical communications work.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience leading, mentoring, or directing writers, editors, or other communications professionals.
• Demonstrated project management experience managing complex editorial or publication workflows, schedules, assignments, reviews, and deadlines.
• Extensive experience performing substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, reference checking, and quality assurance for complex technical publications.
• Experience managing technical publications through multiple review and approval cycles from draft through final production.
• Experience working directly with subject matter experts and translating complex technical or research information for diverse audiences.
• Experience applying formal editorial standards, accessibility requirements, copyright and permissions requirements, and publication quality controls.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and electronic review/editing tools.
• Ability to successfully complete required federal personnel security/background investigation and obtain required facility and system access.

Responsabilidades

• Provide editorial leadership and quality oversight across a high-volume portfolio of technical publications and communications products, establishing consistent standards and practices for editorial quality, technical accuracy, and consistency across the team.
• Direct and mentor writers and editors, assigning editorial work based on subject matter, product requirements, staff expertise, workload, and deadlines and providing constructive feedback that strengthens team performance.
• Perform and oversee substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rewriting, and formatting to improve accuracy, clarity, logical flow, organization, readability, and consistency.
• Review complex technical and research content for accuracy and completeness, including fact checking, reference checking, data verification, terminology, tables, figures, citations, product names, trademarks, copyrights, and permissions.
• Collaborate with authors, researchers, engineers, subject matter experts, communications staff, designers, and other stakeholders to translate complex technical information into authoritative, audience-appropriate communications.
• Manage complex editorial workflows and multiple review cycles, maintaining version control and ensuring comments, technical review feedback, and required approvals are accurately incorporated.
• Ensure compliance with applicable agency and federal editorial, accessibility, copyright, permissions, and publishing requirements.
• Provide editorial oversight throughout the complete production lifecycle, from initial content review and planning through layout, quality assurance, approval, and final publication across print, web, and digital formats.
• Proactively identify editorial risks, inconsistencies, recurring quality issues, and process inefficiencies and implement practical improvements to strengthen quality and efficiency.
• Manage editorial workload, priorities, schedules, quality, and continuity across concurrent assignments.

Conocimientos

Editorial leadership

Mentoring writers

Editorial workflows

Technical editing

Quality oversight

Stakeholder communication

Security clearance readiness

Educación

Master's degree in English, Journalism, or a technical field

Herramientas

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Descripción del empleo

Nexight Group seeks an experienced Senior Technical Editor to lead editorial quality for a high-volume portfolio of technical publications supporting a federal transportation client. The role requires strong editorial judgment, technical editing expertise, and leadership to guide writers and editors across complex workflows.

The position involves ensuring accuracy, clarity, and publication readiness across print, web, and digital formats, while maintaining compliance with federal requirements