What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Editor position at Dudek?
Who We Are
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that helps public and private clients achieve compliance, practicality, and innovation through our project work. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2023.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. Our work communities are designed to encourage collaboration, sustainability, and connectivity with the surrounding communities.
We invest in our Employees and communities through various initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Dudek makes it a priority to DuGood by giving back to the communities in which we live and work, and offer Dudekians the opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year. Our experts are encouraged to eDUcate school groups about planning, engineering, and preserving the natural and built environments. We promote environmental sustainability through our DuGreen initiative by working to improve our environmental footprint. We also DuWell to educate our associates on their health and wellness. And our Du Something Fun team brings everyone at Dudek together to balance our hard work with exciting activities.
At Dudek, we understand the best problem solving happens when diverse viewpoints and experiences are shared. We recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, and trust build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. We celebrate our differences and strive to make meaningful progress toward becoming a more diverse company.
Learn more about our culture.
About The Job
Dudek is looking for a dynamic technical editor to join our growing Publications team.
Our ideal candidate is a publications leader with exceptional editorial skills and sound judgment to manage all aspects of complex technical report production under tight deadlines. Candidate must be able to use editorial expertise and ingenuity to solve editorial and coordination issues effectively, interacting with all levels of staff and occasionally with clients.
This full-time position may be based at one of the following offices: Portland, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, Encinitas, or San Diego, and may have hybrid or remote options available.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.
Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with freedom and accountability. We value collaborative, resourceful, and independent thinkers. We look for curious, solution-focused people who are able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we support your creative approaches to solve problems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:
Proposed Salary Range: $60,000 - $70,000 annually*
*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.
Perks of Being a Dudekian
Not only will Dudek provide you with a competitive salary, but we also strive to create an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from your typical medical, dental, and vision coverage to the opportunity to share in Dudek’s success through discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance. We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! Since we encourage our colleagues to take time off when needed, Dudek also provides a generous vacation package. If you’re tired of an overly structured environment and decision-making process to get your job done, Dudek is a place where your ideas are heard and your initiative is rewarded. Speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.
Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Dudek is a leading environmental, planning, and engineering firm that helps public and private clients achieve compliance, practicality, and innovation through our project work. Founded in 1980, Dudek has grown steadily to more than 800 professionals across the U.S. and received the Top Workplace Award for 2023.
As a 100% employee-owned company, Dudek’s culture rewards smart, productive team members with ownership, professional development, and financial benefits. Our work communities are designed to encourage collaboration, sustainability, and connectivity with the surrounding communities.
We invest in our Employees and communities through various initiatives that make Dudek a great place to work! Dudek makes it a priority to DuGood by giving back to the communities in which we live and work, and offer Dudekians the opportunity to take a paid volunteer day each year. Our experts are encouraged to eDUcate school groups about planning, engineering, and preserving the natural and built environments. We promote environmental sustainability through our DuGreen initiative by working to improve our environmental footprint. We also DuWell to educate our associates on their health and wellness. And our Du Something Fun team brings everyone at Dudek together to balance our hard work with exciting activities.
At Dudek, we understand the best problem solving happens when diverse viewpoints and experiences are shared. We recognize that different perspectives, inclusivity, and trust build a stronger culture and add value to our firm. We celebrate our differences and strive to make meaningful progress toward becoming a more diverse company.
Learn more about our culture.
About The Job
Dudek is looking for a dynamic technical editor to join our growing Publications team.
Our ideal candidate is a publications leader with exceptional editorial skills and sound judgment to manage all aspects of complex technical report production under tight deadlines. Candidate must be able to use editorial expertise and ingenuity to solve editorial and coordination issues effectively, interacting with all levels of staff and occasionally with clients.
This full-time position may be based at one of the following offices: Portland, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, Encinitas, or San Diego, and may have hybrid or remote options available.
Learn more about the projects you will have the opportunity to shape.
Who You Are
To thrive at Dudek, you should be comfortable with freedom and accountability. We value collaborative, resourceful, and independent thinkers. We look for curious, solution-focused people who are able to adapt quickly to an ever-changing industry. There is no single way to solve a problem, so we support your creative approaches to solve problems.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides technical editing (including copyediting), writing/rewriting, and document management support for technical and marketing documents.
- Reviews documents to resolve errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, logic, and references; ensures clarity of figures and tables; and checks for readable text, clear sentences, and consistent style.
- Begins to learn and apply standard Dudek editorial style (Dudek Style Guide) to documents; builds familiarity with environmental sciences documents, terminology, and guidelines.
- Ensures conformance with existing project-specific style guidelines when available and/or creates project-specific style sheets.
- Makes editorial recommendations as necessary to authors and reviewers.
- Investigates and provides editorial solutions for document content and management issues.
- Coordinates with internal staff to manage workflow and document editing and formatting cycles.
- Manages time effectively to meet assignment deadlines.
- Learns department processes and works closely with publications team members (i.e., editors, publications specialists, and production staff) to ensure that documents are completed according to established requirements and schedule.
- Assists other editors with large documentation projects.
- Collaborates with other editors to complete editorial review and publication of public review notices and filings.
- Performs quality checks on production work as requested.
- Reports workload status and notifies supervisor when adjustments to workload are needed.
- Learns from and applies feedback generated by editorial peer review/quality check of completed work.
- Participates in editorial team development and updates of editorial guidelines, best practices, and other resources.
- BA degree in English or writing-intensive discipline. MA degree is a plus.
- 2 years’ experience in an applicable professional field.
- Problem-solving capabilities. Able to manage project-specific editorial and document production schedules to meet established deadlines. Able to troubleshoot and provide effective editorial solutions based on desired technical staff results.
- Excellent communication skills. Able to describe problems and solutions to team members. Able to provide accurate work forecasts and status.
- Teamwork skills. Capable of constructively teaching and learning from teammates. Maintains a positive attitude in the face of changing demands and deadlines. Able to coordinate with team members to achieve a common goal.
- Independence. Able to self-motivate and work independently to achieve a goal with limited guidance.
- Adaptability. Able to rapidly self-teach new skills and software applications. Able to be productive under changing demands and deadlines and prioritize work as appropriate when faced with multiple projects.
- Excellent general software skills. Must have proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat.
- Excellent editorial skills. Must have thorough understanding of professional standards and resources and demonstrate good and quick editorial judgment with sensitivity to client demands while maintaining established editorial standards.
- Experience working with document production teams is desired, and familiarity with terminology of environmental sciences is a plus.
Physical Requirements
Working Conditions:
- This job operates in a remote or office-based environment and this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, printers, etc.
- This job requires occasional project site visits-based outdoors which can include excessive noise, uneven walking surfaces, extreme weather, moving vehicles and equipment.
- This job requires working on a computer, sitting or standing for long periods of time in an office or remote office setting.
- This job requires attending meetings, both in person and virtually as well as speaking on the phone with peers, clients, etc. Speaking, hearing and listening are required.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
Proposed Salary Range: $60,000 - $70,000 annually*
*Final agreed upon compensation will be based on a variety of factors including but not limited to an individual’s related experience, education, certifications, skills, and work location.
Perks of Being a Dudekian
Not only will Dudek provide you with a competitive salary, but we also strive to create an environment that promotes growth, career development, and a flexible work–life balance. Dudek offers an array of benefits, from your typical medical, dental, and vision coverage to the opportunity to share in Dudek’s success through discretionary bonuses, based on firmwide, divisional, and individual performance. We also offer a yearly merit review, an employee stock ownership program, and dog friendly offices! Since we encourage our colleagues to take time off when needed, Dudek also provides a generous vacation package. If you’re tired of an overly structured environment and decision-making process to get your job done, Dudek is a place where your ideas are heard and your initiative is rewarded. Speak with your recruiter to learn more about the great perks of being a Dudekian.
Dudek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
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