Senior Technical Editor

Job Title:

Senior Technical Editor

Company:

BLN
24

About Us:

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BLN
24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service andsolutionsdelivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Position Overview:

The Senior Technical Editor leads the editorial planning, review, and quality assurance of complex technical publications that support research, engineering, and technology programs. This position ensures technical information is accurate, consistent, accessible, and compliant with established editorial and publication standards while collaborating with authors, researchers, engineers, technical subject matter experts, and Government stakeholders. The Senior Technical Editor also provides editorial leadership and mentoring to ensure the delivery of high-quality print and digital publications.

• Lead the editorial review and quality assurance of technical reports, research publications, engineering documents, manuals, digital content, and communications materials.
• Manage the complete editorial lifecycle from manuscript development through final publication, including substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, reference verification, formatting, and publication readiness.
• Ensure editorial consistency, technical accuracy, and compliance with organizational style guides, the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Style Manual, and other applicable publication standards.
• Edit complex technical, engineering, scientific, and policy documents to improve clarity, organization, readability, grammar, and overall quality without altering technical intent.
• Verify references, citations, source documentation, copyright permissions, and publication compliance to ensure accuracy and integrity.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, technical subject matter experts, authors, graphic designers, web content specialists, and Government stakeholders throughout the editorial and publication process.
• Provide editorial guidance, mentoring, and quality oversight to technical editors, writers, and other communications staff.
• Coordinate document reviews, comment resolution, version control, and publication schedules to support timely delivery of high-quality products.
• Support digital publishing initiatives by preparing content for web publication and ensuring consistency across print and online communications.
• Transform raw data, engineering terminology, technical analyses, and draft materials into accurate, authoritative, and accessible publications without changing the authors’ technical intent.
• Recommend, implement, and monitor editorial process improvements, quality control procedures, and best practices that enhance efficiency and publication quality.
• Work independently to manage the full document lifecycle from initial outline and manuscript development through technical review, editorial production, final approval, print publication, and online or web publishing.

• Master’s degree in English, Journalism, Technical Communication, Communications, or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible technical editing experience, including supervisory responsibility, editorial project management, and coordination of multiple concurrent publication assignments.
• Demonstrated experience managing the complete editorial lifecycle for technical reports, manuals, research publications, digital content, and other communications products.
• Expert knowledge of the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) Style Manual, editorial standards, grammar, punctuation, usage, and technical editing best practices.
• Experience performing substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, reference verification, and quality assurance for technical publications.
• Demonstrated experience ensuring document consistency, technical accuracy, editorial quality, and compliance…