Description
Job Description:
Leidos seeks an experienced, self-directed Document Production Manager/Editing Specialist to integrate into an existing editorial and document production team, following established quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) and editorial team protocols. The successful candidate will support Leidos Civil Environmental and Infrastructure Portfolio Project Managers and various environmental contracts.
Primary Responsibilities
Coordinate/assign tasks among staff related to the editing, formatting, QA/QC, and production of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and other documents similar in complexity.
Help Project Managers develop editorial/formatting QC schedules.
Integrate available editorial bench staff into projects.
Model and foster accountability among the editorial team regarding QA/QC efforts to ensure quality and consistency of document products.
Organize and manage project and editorial files to minimize version control problems.
Help Project Managers and authors stay on schedule with respect to document production tasks.
Edit and/or format complex documents, ensuring a high-quality final product that adheres to specified style guidance.
Basic Qualifications
This position requires a bachelor's degree with 4 to 8 years of direct experience; In lieu of a bachelor's degree, candidates with at least 10 years direct experience may also be considered.
Experience working with Microsoft Office, specifically Microsoft Word.
Experience working with Adobe Acrobat.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with the following tasks related to editing and formatting complex documents that include multiple sections, including front matter, Executive Summaries, multiple chapters, and appendices.
Using Microsoft Word, combine sections from various Word files with tracked changes into one file while maintaining the tracked changes.
Using Microsoft Word, enter corrections and revisions; insert figures and tables from other formats; create/update/apply styles; adjust spacing and formatting; trouble-shoot formatting and styles glitches; create/update footer and header information, inclusive of differing page sizes and layouts within the same document; and standardize headings, margins, and indentations according to style guides.
Using Microsoft Word, format documents and produce draft and final documentation suitable for publication.
Using Adobe Acrobat, convert Microsoft Word and Excel documents to PDF format, create bookmarks, and combine multiple PDFs into one PDF.
Using Adobe Acrobat, paginate individual elements within a PDF, and throughout PDF, as needed.
Using company-established electronic document archiving system, maintain document control and storage.
Read and revise documents, correcting grammar and punctuation, identifying inconsistencies in word usage and presentation of information, and ensuring text from multiple authors reads as -one voice.-
Track callouts (tables, figures, and appendices/attachments), acronyms, and references within each document.
Learn and apply applicable style guides and project preferences, often working with different style guides/preferences in different documents simultaneously.
Maintain all aspects of production process for each document: receive and adhere to schedule and budgeted hours allotment, receive document pieces, format or coordinate formatting of all document files, edit, coordinate review cycles with Project Managers, review final work products, and prepare PDFs for production (hard copy and electronic).
Identify formatting inconsistencies: table borders, table footnote spacing and organization, spacing between paragraphs, broken line and page breaks, and figure layouts (within Word files and PDFs).
Explain/justify editing revisions if/as needed.
Pay Range:Pay Range $57,850.00 - $89,000.00 - $120,150.00
#Remote REQNUMBER: R-00082632-OTHLOC-PL-2D2788
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.
