Technical Editor

The Employee Connect • New England, ND

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Our client, a professional services organization supporting government and defense programs, is seeking a Technical Editor for an onsite, permanent position in New England, North Dakota. The role owns the clarity, accuracy, and consistency of technical documentation produced for government customers. This is a good fit for an editor who takes genuine satisfaction in turning dense technical material into documents that are precise and readable. The work carries real consequence: the deliverables you edit are read by government reviewers, and quality of presentation affects how the underlying technical work is received.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in English, communications, journalism, technical writing, or a related field is required, or equivalent demonstrated professional editing experience.
• Prior technical editing experience, with a portfolio or track record of editing complex technical material for an external or government audience.
• Exceptional command of English grammar, usage, and punctuation is essential.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Word, including styles, templates, track changes, and cross-referencing, is required.
• Meticulous attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple documents against competing deadlines.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience supporting government or defense contracts is strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with government documentation standards and deliverable review processes.
• Eligibility to obtain a security clearance is advantageous.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat and FrameMaker.
• SharePoint-based document management.
• Proposal or contract deliverable support.
• Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility requirements for documents.
• Experience editing proposals under compressed deadlines is valued.
• Familiarity with configuration-managed documentation and formal deliverable acceptance processes.
• Ability to work comfortably with highly technical authors across engineering and analytical disciplines.
• Patience to work through iterative review cycles.

Responsibilities

• Edit technical documents, reports, manuals, and deliverables for grammar, syntax, clarity, and consistency, working across material written by engineers, analysts, and subject matter experts whose strengths lie in the technical content rather than the prose.
• Enforce compliance with applicable style guides, government formatting standards, and contract-specific documentation requirements, maintaining consistency of terminology, acronym usage, numbering, and citation across large document sets and multiple contributing authors.
• Perform substantive editing as well as copyediting, restructuring sections for logical flow, flagging gaps or unsupported statements, tightening verbose passages, and querying authors where meaning is ambiguous rather than guessing at intent.
• Manage document production workflows including version control, review cycles, incorporation of reviewer comments, and final quality checks before delivery.
• Maintain document templates and style resources, and coordinate with graphics and production staff on figures, tables, and layout so that deliverables meet deadline without last-minute compromise.
• Maintain the editorial standards library for the program, keeping style guidance, approved terminology, and template documentation current as requirements evolve.
• Provide practical writing guidance to technical staff so that recurring issues are corrected at the source rather than repeatedly at the editing stage.

Benefits

• Salary range of $90,000 to $98,000 per year
• Stability
• Defined scope of ownership over documentation quality
• Opportunity to build specialized experience in government contract support
• Placements often lead to extensions, repeat assignments, or permanent conversion

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level