Technical Editor

Osborn Consulting•Bellevue, WA

1d•$35 - $50•Hybrid

About The Position

Come join our team as a Technical Editor! This pivotal role is essential to maintaining Osborn Consulting's reputation for accuracy and professionalism. As a team player, you will support all our practices as they deliver critical public infrastructure projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. You will collaborate with project managers and technical staff to produce a variety of unique project deliverables, including memorandums and reports, supporting projects that make a direct impact on our local communities. We are looking for a highly organized, detail-oriented, and reliable individual with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple concurrent tasks. If you have a passion for learning and a curiosity about the civil engineering and landscape architecture world, we encourage you to apply! This will be a part-time, benefit-eligible role at 32 hours/week with the potential of developing into a 40-hour full-time position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, English, communications, engineering, or related field.
5+ years of related work experience
Strong writing, technical editing, proofreading, and page composition skills.
Strong Microsoft Suite skills, including formatting and report production.
Ability to manage competing deadlines and work with multiple project managers concurrently.
Flexibility to edit to requested level of effort and understand when lighter copyediting or more detailed line editing may be required.
Strong attention to detail and takes ownership of managing workload.

Nice To Haves

Experience in A/E/C industry strongly preferred.
Experience in SpecsIntact is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Oversees the technical editing of material for reports, memorandums, sales proposals, training materials, engineering specifications, meeting minutes, presentations, and other technical and administrative publications.
Performs copyediting on technical documents according to the Chicago Manual of Style and Osborn’s in-house style guide.
Reviews documents with a strategic lens to ensure they fulfill their intended purpose, asking clarifying questions and using editorial expertise to enhance clarity, flow, and audience understanding.
Conducts research and ensures the use of proper technical and industry terminology; ensures consistency and accuracy of language use and acronym usage.
Prioritizes editing focus (e.g., grammar and punctuation, clarity, word choice, and formatting) based on the requested level of effort and time available for each project.
As necessary or as requested, reorganizes, cuts, or rewrites document content.
Reviews draft Word tables and figures to ensure the content supports and is consistent with the accompanying text.
Serves as the company subject matter expert on Microsoft Word and Excel formatting.
Ensures documents meet ADA accessibility requirements and follow recommendations for accessible Word documents.
Performs final formatting and production of documents, including compilation of PDFs.
Manages the Osborn template library, creating new, easy-to-use Word templates and revising templates as needed.
Manages the Osborn style guide and usage guide.
Develops internal training to promote technical report writing skills.