Technical Editor

General Dynamics Information Technology; Sierra Vista (AZ); On-site; USD 50,000 - 58,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness

Internal mobility team

Professional growth opportunities

Cutting-edge technology

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

General Dynamics Information Technology is seeking a Technical Writer to support NETCOM at Fort Huachuca, AZ. The role focuses on editing, drafting, and proofreading highly technical documents to meet the Army Writing Style requirements.

Requirements include a Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of related experience (or equivalent), and a Secret security clearance. Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite is highly preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and two years of related experience, or equivalent (equal to 6 years).
• Required Technical Skills: Information Technology
• Security Clearance Level: Secret
• Required Skills and Abilities: communication, problem solving
• Preferred Skills: fluent with Microsoft Office 2007 or higher editions (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS Project, Acrobat)
• Location: Fort Huachuca, AZ

Responsibilities

• Researches, prepares, and edits technical documents.
• Works with a team and document authors to deliver documents with highly technical content while complying with the Army Writing Style.
• Draft, write, edit, proofread, and provide comments to team documents.
• Ensure documents are in correct format, grammatically correct, with proper capitalization, typography, spacing, and numbering.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Proofreading

Punctuation

Spelling

Writing

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree + 2 years experience

Tools

MS Office 2007+

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

MS Outlook

MS Project

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Job Description:

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Interim Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able To Obtain: Secret

Public Trust/Other Required: None

Job Family: Program Delivery and Execution

Skills: Microsoft Office, Proofreading, Punctuation (Inactive), Spelling, Writing

Certifications: None

Experience: 2 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Technical Writer supporting U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Technical Editor Advisor you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our Technical Editor Advisors join our team to edit, create, review, and update technical documents for the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command located at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.

How a Technical Writer Will Make An Impact

• Researches, prepares, and edits technical documents
• Works with a team and document authors to deliver documents that include highly technical content yet comply with the Army Writing Style
• Draft, write, edit, proofread, and provide comments to team documents
• Ensure documents are in the correct format, are grammatically correct, contain proper capitalization, use of typefaces, numerals, compound words, spacing before and after dashes and symbols, and use of correct spelling and grammar. Table of contents agrees with heading in text, and page numbers are correct. Tables, figures, references, equations, and footnotes numbered and identified correctly, and references to other documents are accurate.

What You’ll Need To Succeed:

• Education: Bachelors and two years experience, will consider other combinations of education and experience, equal to 6 yrs.
• Required Technical Skills: Information Technology
• Security Clearance Level: Secret
• Required Skills and Abilities: communication, problem solving,
• Preferred Skills: Must be fluent with Microsoft Office 2007 and higher editions, MS WORD, MS EXCEL, MS POWERPOINT, MS OUTLOOK, MS PROJECT, Adobe Acrobat
• Location: Fort Huachuca, AZ

Gdit Is Your Place:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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The likely salary range for this position is $50,190 - $57,720. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Onsite

Work Location:

USA AZ Fort Huachuca

Total Rewards At GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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