Description

Looking for an opportunity to unleash your potential?

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer's success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business.

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Leidos is seeking a Senior Technical Writer/Editor to work onsite at San Diego location.

Does the prospect of tackling dynamic challenges excite you? Then you just might have found the right opportunity here at Leidos. This is an exciting opportunity to apply your extensive technical writing and editing skills to support the next generation of solutions for our customer. As the Technical Writer/Editor, you will be a key part of the Leidos team, supporting our Army and Air Force customer to develop and transition their existing system to a modernized enterprise system. Our team has an important mission; develop critical solutions that benefit the warfighter!

Your greatest work is ahead!

We are a trusted partner to both government and civil agencies looking for transformative solutions in security, software, engineering, and operations. Our customers take on the toughest challenges out there, and at times need a helping hand from specialists in their fields. We combine our scale as a Fortune 500 company with the deep technical knowledge of our core capabilities and the expertise of our talented and diverse workforce to deliver mission-centric innovations. For each of these core capabilities, we have developed proven, repeatable processes that help us deliver agile, cost-effective solutions to foster a better world.

Why Leidos?

• Leidos Life promotes excellent work-life balance. You can make an impact and have time for your well-being.
• Leidos offers many opportunities for career development and advancement.
• The successful applicant will be a part of a large, dynamic workforce.
• Learn more at https://www.leidos.com/employees/life and https://www.leidos.com/careers/life

About You

• Owns the documentation from beginning to end
• Proud to share in team's success
• Able to do your best work in a team setting and autonomously
• Wants to grow a career with a great company

What You'll Bring

Qualified candidates must have experience in editing narrative and graphic products to identify and correct grammatical formatting and logic errors and to identify logical inconsistencies that will require author attention. Must have experience in the application a variety of word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and scheduling tools. Must have experience in meeting with authors and other team representatives to review documents, compile inputs/corrections, resolve incompatible comments, and provide final publishable documentation. Must have experience in explaining in simple language scientific and technical ideas that are difficult for the average reader to understand.

Primary Responsibilities.

The Sr. Technical Writer/Editor supports the Project Manager and Hardware and Software Development and Test Team. Concise documentation for robust hardware and software, sound processes, and program documentation are critical to ensuring delivery of a successful end product.

• Supports the implementation of new projects and upgrades to existing projects by developing and delivering technical documentation for the project and facilitating collaboration by establishing meeting locations, shared workspaces, agendas, standard operating procedures, and meeting records.
• Utilizes currently installed program documentation tools such as; Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Adobe FrameMaker, Visio, MS Project, Microsoft SharePoint to support project documentations.
• Will update existing technical documentation and create new where needed.
• Identifies and organize artifacts and links for scoped projects and processes.
• Maintains and refines SharePoint artifacts (staff listings, team rosters, meeting notes, project plans, PPT presentations, action items, glossary listings, and how-to documents).

Basic Qualifications.

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required. A Master's degree may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to six (6) years of experience. Four (4) years of additional TW experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Eight (8) years experience as a TW in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• US Citizen with existing or ability to obtain Secret clearance. Federal Government requirement.
• Strong technical writing skills (Clear, concise, and complete manner).
• Strong grammar skills (punctuation, spelling, usage)
• Minimum 4 years' experience in effectively formatting technical publications to include writing, editing, illustration, interpretations, and depth coverage.
• Minimum 2 years' experience with writing technical documentation following DoD standards, interpreting engineering and maintenance drawings, and interpreting operational procedures.
• Strong oral communication skills
• Self-motivated, problem solver who's willing to take initiative to develop systems expertise.
• Strong listening skills to capture the necessary information from engineers.
• Must have the ability to use sound judgment in problem solving and must possess excellent interpersonal and communications skills

Preferred Qualifications.

• Familiarity with modern-day Cybersecurity and Cryptographic Key Management solutions.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.