Technical Editor IV
About The Position
HGL - WHO WE ARE At HGL, we value our employees as individuals and as important members of our team. We offer a work environment that is flexible, inclusive, and dedicated to creating a sustainable future. We provide opportunities for a dynamic work environment surrounded by industry leaders working to solve today’s environmental, infrastructure, and natural resources challenges. HGL offers career advancement through internal and external training, skill advancement, and education. Projects at HGL span the United States and its territories all while solving problems associated with emerging contaminants (PFAS, radiological, and unexploded ordnance) along with traditional chemical contamination across all media. With over 550 employees, HGL is large enough to execute high profile projects, but small enough that personal working environments are possible with senior management and HGL's talented team members. By joining HGL, you will be working toward restoring the environment and protecting our future. HGL - WE INVEST IN YOU It’s not just a job, it’s your career. HGL provides career growth opportunities via mentoring, training, education, and support for your certifications and licenses. HGL’s mission is to continually deliver new solutions and technologies for the ever-changing range of environmental challenges encountered in today’s world. HGL’s corporate culture ensures you’ll be given the opportunity for career advancement while being supported by bright, highly productive peers and leaders. POSITION DESCRIPTION HGL is seeking a part-time as needed Technical Editor IV to provide additional overflow support to our Editorial Group. We are looking for an experienced editor with a background in government contract work in the environmental industry. In this role, you will be conducting editorial reviews and revisions of project deliverables such as environmental investigation, restoration, and construction reports. Clients for these reports include the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This is a remote/work from home position based anywhere in the U.S.
Requirements
- Minimum of BS/BA degree.
- Minimum of 10 years of writing/editing experience.
- Minimum of intermediate skills with Microsoft Office 365 Applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint).
- Work independently with limited guidance.
- Excellent time management and organizational skills to meet deadlines/budgets and prioritize tasks.
- Professional communication with authors, project managers, and other reviewers.
- Regular communication with Editorial Group lead on availability and same-day response to emails and/or text messages. Given the variable nature of the work, you will not be expected to be “online” all the time, but you will be expected to provide notice of extended absences and promptly reply to emails or text messages notifying you of a work request.
- Willingness to learn and use the HGL Internal Style Manual, project-specific guidance (if provided), and corporate deliverable review management system.
- Must pass HGL editorial test that will be given to all candidates as part of the interview process (1 hour time limit).
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience as an editor in the environmental industry.
- Previous experience as a government contractor.
Responsibilities
- Ensure writing is clear, concise, and consistent with HGL and project-specific requirements.
- Confirm logical deliverable organization.
- Review grammar and spelling.
- Verify acronyms and abbreviations are defined at first reference and are in acronym list.
- Verify table of contents and lists of appendices/tables/figures are complete.
- Check cross references to report sections, tables, figures, and appendices.
- Confirm proper citation of sources and inclusion in references.
- Review responses to comments for accuracy and incorporation into revised deliverable.
- Ensure overall quality of deliverables.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
