Production Editor

Louisiana State University

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Experienced production editor oversees the copyediting and publication process for scholarly and trade books published by the Press. Duties include working with freelance contractors, copyediting, and production editing. Reports to the managing editor.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 1 year of relevant experience
employment on the staff of a publishing house as a copyeditor, production editor, or managing editor

Nice To Haves

2 years of relevant experience

Responsibilities

Serves as a production editor to facilitate the copyediting process for selected titles, as assigned.
Evaluates manuscripts and sends them to freelance editors, recommends kind and level of editing, and tracks and troubleshoots projects through the copyediting process.
Sets budgets and schedules in consultation with the managing editor and receives invoices.
Finalizes and transmits manuscripts to the production department, checks permissions, coordinates page proof review with authors, finalizes page proof corrections, schedules indexers and editing indexes, checks revised stages of proof, tracks publication schedules, edits and proofreads promotional copy, troubleshoots, communicates with other departments as needed, and acts as primary liaison between author and Press.
May copyedit short manuscripts and those with complicated picture programs.
Prepares and formats manuscripts for electronic editing, using Editor’s Toolkit or other applicable programs, as assigned.
Cleans and formats indexes.
Performs final cleanup of edited MSS, as assigned.
Performs editorial work on reprints and new paperbacks as assigned.
Performs other tasks within the editorial department as needed.