Lead Technical Editor

Description

ABOUT DELVE UNDERGROUND

Delve Underground is a leader in underground and heavy civil engineering serving the transportation, water, wastewater, and energy industries. Specializing in tunnel design, we provide practical solutions to the most challenging underground problems. We offer comprehensive design, construction management, and construction claims services, with expertise extending across a wide range of engineering disciplines, including civil, structural, and geotechnical engineering. Our primary focus is to make a significant impact on the advancement of infrastructure projects, which in turn shape and enhance the communities we serve. Founded in 1954, as Jacobs Associates, Delve Underground is an employee-owned firm with 25 offices and 350 team members throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

We want our employees to make a career doing what they love to do. We encourage an entrepreneurial spirit and help our team members forge their own path within the company. We support their efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology while fostering a great work-life balance. In addition to working hard, we also have fun. We socialize and celebrate achievements at summer picnics, holiday parties, and company outings.

Benefits: Full Benefits Program consisting of Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability, FSA or HSA, EAP, 401(k), ESOP, and company stock ownership program, 9 Paid Holidays, generous paid-time-off program, Work from home flexibility, and Health & Wellness Reimbursement

Pay Rate: $70,018 - $105,535

Lead Technical Editor

Delve Underground is looking for an experienced Lead Technical Editor to join our team. A successful candidate will be a fully trained editing professional with demonstrated technical editing skills. While a thorough understanding of writing styles is necessary, this is an editing position. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team experiencing rapid growth in a healthy market focused on infrastructure development, specifically in the underground sector for the foreseeable future. This is a hybrid position, and in-office time will be necessary.

Responsibilities:

• Under supervisor’s direction, coordinates editing tasks such as research, writing, data entry, administration, communications support, and other duties as necessary.
• Edits technical reports, conference papers, administrative documents, and specifications with minimal or no supervision.
• Edits marketing materials with minimal or no supervision in concert with Marketing Director/Managers and Communications Director.
• Creates company templates.
• Reviews document deliverables for conformity and quality assurance.
• Assists in providing coaching and training to technical authors (engineers mostly) to be better technical writers.
• Manage deadlines with minimal supervision.

Qualifications:

• 4 - 8 years editing experience, A&E industry experience preferred
• Associate’s degree or higher, Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong Microsoft Word skills, along with Microsoft 365 and Adobe Acrobat
• Excellent editing, writing, and communication skills
• Good presentation and teamwork skills
• Familiarity with Chicago Manual of Style
• Seasoned professional with good knowledge of most areas of editing (formatting proofreading, copy editing, content editing)
• Exercises good judgment in managing time
• Able to balance multiple projects at the same time

ARE YOU READY TO JOIN OUR TEAM?

If you feel that you would be right for this position, please fill out our initial 3-minute, mobile-friendly application so that we can review your information. We look forward to meeting you!

Delve Underground is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and will make all employment related decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Compensation reflects the cost of labor across our US geographic markets. Pay is based on several factors including market location, experience, knowledge, and skills.

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