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PDS Commercial, Inc. is seeking a Technical Editor lll, in Linthicum, MD.

Job Description:

• Seeking an experienced Technical Editor.

• The successful candidate will join our high performing team to develop technical documentation for advanced military sensors and systems, integrated on platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Edit technical documents to ensure compliance with spelling, grammar and punctuation, style, layout and specification requirements.

• Collaborate with task/team leads, writers, engineers, and instructors, to publish and deliver documents.

• Develop templates based on style guides to adhere to military specifications and standards of technical writing.

• Perform Desktop Publishing tasks for all program technical data products and publish materials in hardcopy and electronic formats.

Basic Qualifications for level 2:

• Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related field, 2-5 years' technical editing experience.

• Minimum 1-2 years' experience in creating and modifying templates, style sheets, and formats.

• Experience with structured (HTML, SGML, or XML, and S1000 or DITA) content.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.

• Knowledge of Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE 100) specification.

• Self-motivated with good problem solving and organization skills.

• U.S. Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance (or higher).

Basic Qualifications for level 3:

• Bachelor's Degree in English, Journalism, Communications or related field, 5-10 years' technical editing experience, 3 years' experience with Master's.

• Minimum 5 years' experience in creating and modifying templates, style sheets, and formats.

• Minimum of 5 years' experience editing page-based and structured (HTML, SGML, and XML, and S1000 and DITA) content.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Experience with structured technical data.

• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment.

• Excellent problem solving and organization skills.

• Ability to obtain and maintain DoD Secret clearance (or higher).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 2 years' experience with structured authoring applications, such as: MadCap, FrameMaker, or Arbortext.

• Experience with Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE 100).

• Member of the Society for Technical Communicators (STC).

• Ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).

On Work day from Talent Acquisition:

* Writes, rewrites and/or edits technical documents such as technical procedure manuals, user manuals, programming manuals, service manuals, operational specifications, and related technical publications to communicate clearly and effectively technical specifications and instructions to a wide range of audiences.

• Acquires subject knowledge by interviewing product developers, observing performance of production methods, referring to technical specifications, blueprints, engineering illustrations, and trade journals.

• Oversees preparation of illustrative materials, selecting drawings, sketches, diagrams and charts.

• Conducts quality review of materials.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.