Senior Technical Editor - Part-Time, Telework Eligible

N4 Solutions, LLC; Greenbelt (MD); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

N4 Solutions, LLC seeks a Senior Technical Editor to lead editorial quality for highly technical documents and publications. You will manage the full editorial lifecycle, mentor staff, ensure compliance with federal style guidelines, and coordinate with researchers, engineers, and program staff to deliver publication-ready content.

You will transform complex engineering information into clear, authoritative material while maintaining accuracy, readability, and consistency across multiple

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in English, Journalism, Communications, a technical discipline, or a closely related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience in technical editing, publishing, communications, or related work, including supervisory and project management experience.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing editorial processes for complex, high-stakes technical documentation.
• Expert-level command of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Style Manual and strong knowledge of professional editorial standards.
• Extensive experience with substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rewriting, fact-checking, and reference verification.
• Experience managing the full lifecycle of documents from draft through final publication, including electronic and web publishing.
• Experience supervising, mentoring, or providing quality oversight to editorial staff.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the editorial lifecycle for high-visibility and technically complex publications and communications products.
• Establish and maintain editorial quality standards across multiple concurrent projects and product lines.
• Review and edit technical documents for clarity, consistency, grammar, punctuation, organization, logical flow, style, formatting, and overall readability.
• Perform substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rewriting, and reorganization as needed to improve the quality and effectiveness of content.
• Serve as a final editorial quality gate for complex or high-profile deliverables before submission or publication.
• Ensure consistent application of editorial standards across large-scale programs, recurring publications, reports, manuals, and other communications products.

Skills

Editorial leadership

Quality assurance

Substantive editing

Copyediting

Proofreading

Fact-checking

Content validation

Team mentoring

Education

Master’s degree in English/Journ/Communications

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

N4 Solutions, LLC seeks a Senior Technical Editor to lead editorial quality for highly technical documents and publications. You will manage the full editorial lifecycle, mentor staff, ensure compliance with federal style guidelines, and coordinate with researchers, engineers, and program staff to deliver publication-ready content.

You will transform complex engineering information into clear, authoritative material while maintaining accuracy, readability, and consistency across multiple