Senior Technical Editor

Nexight Group is seeking an experienced Senior Technical Editor to provide editorial leadership and quality oversight for a high-volume portfolio of technical publications and communications products supporting a federal transportation client. This senior-level role requires exceptional editorial judgment, technical editing expertise, and leadership skills to guide a team of writers and editors, manage complex editorial workflows, and ensure technically accurate, clear, consistent, and publication-ready products for diverse audiences.

This position is contingent upon Nexight Group receiving an anticipated federal contract award. Employment under this position will begin only after contract award and authorization to proceed.

Nexight Group is a small technical and management consulting firm that serves a variety of clients in many topic areas . We value adaptability, critical thinking, curiosity, initiative, and taking pride in high-quality work. Our staff work collaboratively, communicate openly, and continuously look for ways to improve our work and deliver greater value to clients. To learn more about the company, please visit our careers page .

Applicants should have the necessary skills to perform the following job responsibilities:

• Provide editorial leadership and quality oversight across a high-volume portfolio of technical publications and communications products, establishing consistent standards and practices for editorial quality, technical accuracy, and consistency across the team.
• Direct and mentor writers and editors, assigning editorial work based on subject matter, product requirements, staff expertise, workload, and deadlines and providing constructive feedback that strengthens team performance.
• Perform and oversee substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, rewriting, and formatting to improve accuracy, clarity, logical flow, organization, readability, and consistency.
• Review complex technical and research content for accuracy and completeness, including fact checking, reference checking, data verification, terminology, tables, figures, citations, product names, trademarks, copyrights, and permissions.
• Collaborate with authors, researchers, engineers, subject matter experts, communications staff, designers, and other stakeholders to translate complex technical information into authoritative, audience-appropriate communications.
• Manage complex editorial workflows and multiple review cycles, maintaining version control and ensuring comments, technical review feedback, and required approvals are accurately incorporated.
• Ensure compliance with applicable agency and federal editorial, accessibility, copyright, permissions, and publishing requirements.
• Provide editorial oversight throughout the complete production lifecycle, from initial content review and planning through layout, quality assurance, approval, and final publication across print, web, and digital formats.
• Proactively identify editorial risks, inconsistencies, recurring quality issues, and process inefficiencies and implement practical improvements to strengthen quality and efficiency.
• Manage editorial workload, priorities, schedules, quality, and continuity across concurrent assignments.

This is a hybrid position. Candidates should be within reasonable commuting distance of the Washington, DC, metropolitan area and available for meetings and other activities at client locations in McLean, VA, and Washington, DC, as required.

• Master's degree in English, Journalism, or a technical field.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible professional experience in technical editing, writing, publishing, or related technical communications work.
• Demonstrated supervisory experience leading, mentoring, or directing writers, editors, or other communications professionals.
• Demonstrated project management experience managing complex editorial or publication workflows, schedules, assignments, reviews, and deadlines.
• Extensive experience performing substantive editing, copyediting, proofreading, fact checking, reference checking, and quality assurance for complex technical publications.
• Experience managing technical publications through multiple review and approval cycles from draft through final production.
• Experience working directly with subject matter experts and translating complex technical or research information for diverse audiences.
• Experience applying formal editorial standards, accessibility requirements,…