Senior Technical Editor

N4 Solutions, LLC offers our public and private sector clients the collective intellectual knowledge, expertise, and experience of our company and associates to help our customers evaluate, collaborate, innovate, and create business, technology, and scientific solutions that enable them to accomplish their mission and achieve organizational objectives. With the growth of the company, we are seeking a highly motivated, organized, and people-focused technical editing professional to join our team on a part-time basis.

The successful candidate will work in a high-paced and rewarding work environment.

The Senior Technical Editor will provide senior-level editorial leadership and quality oversight for complex technical documents, publications, reports, manuals, web content, and related communications products. This role is responsible for managing the editorial process from initial draft through final publication, supervising and mentoring editorial staff, ensuring compliance with Federal and agency style requirements, and transforming complex technical and engineering information into clear, authoritative, publication-ready content.

The Senior Technical Editor will work independently and collaboratively with researchers, engineers, writers, designers, program staff, and other stakeholders to ensure that all deliverables meet the highest standards of accuracy, consistency, readability, and quality.

• Oversee the editorial lifecycle for high-visibility and technically complex publications and communications products.
• Establish and maintain editorial quality standards across multiple concurrent projects and product lines.
• Review and edit technical documents for clarity, consistency, grammar, punctuation, organization, logical flow, style, formatting, and overall readability.
• Perform substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rewriting, and reorganization as needed to improve the quality and effectiveness of content.
• Serve as a final editorial quality gate for complex or high-profile deliverables before submission or publication.
• Ensure consistent application of editorial standards across large-scale programs, recurring publications, reports, manuals, and other communications products.
• Implement and maintain rigorous quality control and version-control practices throughout document production.
• Identify recurring editorial or quality issues and recommend process improvements to reduce errors and improve consistency.

• Review technically complex material and transform raw data, engineering terminology, and specialized subject matter into clear and authoritative communications.
• Verify technical accuracy and completeness in coordination with subject matter experts and technical reviewers.
• Conduct fact-checking, reference checking, citation review, and validation of product names, trademarks, copyrights, and other supporting information.
• Ensure that tables, charts, figures, schematics, references, and technical data are accurately integrated with the narrative.
• Identify inconsistencies, unsupported statements, gaps, or ambiguities in technical content and coordinate resolution with authors and subject matter experts.
• Maintain the integrity and intended meaning of technical information while improving readability and accessibility for target audiences.
• Review and reconcile comments from multiple reviewers and ensure approved technical changes are incorporated correctly.

• Ensure documents and publications adhere to applicable Federal and agency editorial standards, including the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Style Manual and other required style guides.
• Apply and enforce established organizational and program-specific editorial requirements across all products.
• Review references, citations, permissions, and copyrighted content for completeness and compliance.
• Coordinate with publication, design, web, accessibility, and program staff to ensure final products are publication ready.
• Support electronic and web publishing by ensuring content is properly structured, formatted, and prepared for downstream production.
• Ensure editorial products support applicable Section 508 accessibility requirements in coordination with accessibility and production staff.
• Maintain awareness of evolving Federal publishing, editorial, and accessibility standards relevant to assigned work.