Leads the development, editing, quality control, and delivery of technical documentation, manuals, reports, test plans, onboarding materials, and government review packages. Maintains documentation for configuration, RMF evidence, operational procedures, and system updates. Verifies facts, improves organization and accuracy, coordinates with authors, and oversees publication production, layouts, artwork, printing, deadlines, and budgets.
Overview
AMERICAN SYSTEMS is an employee-owned federal government contractor supporting national priority programs through our strategic solutions in the areas of Information Technology, Test & Evaluation, Program Mission Support, Engineering & Analysis, and Training.
Responsibilities- Leads development, revision, quality control, and delivery of CDRLs, maintenance manuals, technical data, test plans/reports, implementation artifacts, onboarding documentation, and transition records.
- Maintains documentation supporting ICS/ICD/ISA updates, configuration control, RMF evidence, customer additions, operational procedures, and Government review packages.
- Writes, rewrites and/or edits material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications.
- Edits manuscripts by reviewing content for completeness, accuracy and correctness of language use and revises manuscripts to meet predetermined standards of style and accuracy.
- Looks for inconsistencies of thought, development or organization.
- Confers with authors to recommend treatment of material.
- Reorganizes, cuts or rewrites, as necessary.
- May edit copy as well.
- Allocates print space for story text, photos, and illustrations according to space parameters and copy significance, using knowledge of layout principles.
- Plans the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.
- Verifies facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.
- Oversees publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.
- Bachelor's degree
- 8-10 years of related work experience
- Active Top Secret Clearance
- US Citizenship
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