ProSidian Seeks a Part Time Senior Technical Editor located in located in The Hanford Tri-Cities Area (Kennewick | Pasco | Richland) to support an engagement for the US Dept. of Energy (DOE) Hanford in Eastern Washington (Tri-Cities - Kennewick | Pasco | Richland) Area.
Candidates shall work to support requirements as a Part Time Senior Technical Editor and develop, write, and edit material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures. This Staff Augmentation position supports the client’s engineering organization. This position provides support and coordination in the preparation, development and writing of new or revised technical procedures or procedures for technical systems within the framework of the functional areas or division assigned.
This Staff Augmentation position supports the Nuclear Safety organization by editing and maintaining the electronic files for key Nuclear Safety documents. These key documents include the Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) and Technical Safety Requirements (TSR) for Hanford, the hazard evaluation database reports for Hanford, and HNF-IP-1266 for Hanford. The review and approval of these documents will be managed through Smart Plant Foundation. Other technical documents (from Nuclear Safety and other Engineering organizations) may also be edited. The Senior Technical Editor will work with multiple Nuclear Safety Engineers and on occasion, engineers from other organizations. The Senior Technical Editor will also serve as a backup for the USQ Coordinator. Processing USQs through the database and ensuring USQs are appropriately assigned and completed in a timely manner.
- Assemble procedure developmental information for each new procedure into the electronic workflow including checklists, review comments, approvals, associated vendor manuals and other materials as required.
- Comply with wrps policies and procedures and ensure isms principles are incorporated into organization's activities
- Conduct regular and periodic reviews of existing procedures according to established site guidelines, in response to organizational, technical or administrative changes, or at management direction.
- Conducts physical walk-down of the system or facility location when appropriate.
- Develop, write, and edit material for reports, manuals, briefs, proposals, instruction books, catalogs, and related technical and administrative publications concerned with work methods and procedures. This staff augmentation position supports the client’s engineering organization.
- Develops source material, consults engineering, operations, maintenance, and technical staff and coordinates the preparation of required materials.
- Draft/revise administrative, operating, laboratory and maintenance procedures, descriptive manuals, data sheets, sketches and other documents to enable engineers, operators, technicians and other personnel to safely and correctly manage, operate and repair process systems and equipment.
- Ensures procedures are developed, reviewed, approved and distributed to appropriate personnel in accordance with the established approval process cycle. Ensures that technical and engineering documents such as vendor manuals, diagrams, charts, blueprints and standards are reviewed and accurately integrated into procedures.
- Maintain procedure change information in the electronic workflow including a change summary, review comments, approvals, checklists, and other materials as required.
- May participate in the establishment of procedure style guidelines and standards.
- May provide work leadership for lower level employees
- May represent the organization to internal groups and provide development-specific information to requesters.
- Obtain data from review of documentation, drawings, schematics and reports, consultation with technical staff members and by hands-on experience.
- Perform reviews of other peer or subordinate procedure writer's output, prior to formal review process, to ensure that procedures are accurate, reflect all necessary comments and complies with the generally accepted site procedure development practices, conventions and formats.
- Position supports the nuclear safety organization by editing and maintaining the electronic files for key nuclear safety documents.
- Provide support and coordination in the preparation, development and writing of new or revised technical procedures or procedures for technical systems within the framework of the functional areas or division assigned.
- Route and track procedures through all stages of the process cycle utilizing automated database and document tracking and retrieval systems. Expedites critical path procedures
- The senior technical editor may supervise and mentor less experienced writers, create style guides and manage documentation projects.
- Under general supervision researches, organizes, writes, edits, indexes, revises and produces technical data for documentation of greater scope and advanced technical complexity.
- Other duties as assigned.