Senior Technical Editor

Amentum is now hiring a Senior Technical Editor in support of the Field, Lab and Air Integration / Experimentation / Modeling and Risk Reduction (FLAIR) office at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD and other locations. This project will provide the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Research (C5ISR) Center services to include programmatic/business management services, engineering support services, field engineering, laboratory, logistics, and acquisition / administrative support services to augment FLAIR core Government personnel and turn-key solutions to support the missions of FLAIR and its associated Managers and customers. This support will be conducted in close coordination with Government project leads within FLAIR.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Refine work of writers, and head and coordinate activities of writers engaged in preparing technical, scientific, medical, or other material for publication in conjunction with or independent from manufacturing, research, and related activities.

• Assign staff writer or contract with specialist in subject area to produce draft of manuscript.

• Oversee staff writers and delineate standard procedures for gathering data and writing.

• Analyze developments in specific field to determine need for revisions, corrections, and changes in previously published materials and development of new material.

• Confer with customer representatives, vendors, plant executives, or publisher to establish technical specifications, determine specific or general subject material to be developed for publication, and resolve problems concerned with developing and publishing subject material.

• Review draft of manuscript and make recommendations for changes.

• May edit and correct final draft to prepare for typesetting. May perform similar duties to those supervised.

• May select or recommend graphics, such as drawings, diagrams, pictures, and charts to illustrate manuscript.

• May specialize in particular type of publication, such as manuals, handbooks, articles, or proposals.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a Bachelor of Science degree.

• Minimum of 9 years of working experience.  Will accept 5 years of additional experience in lieu of degree.

• Must have an Active TOP SECRET US Government Clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to maintain a TOP SECRET Clearance. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting C5ISR DEVCOM programs.

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