**Company Description** **Work with Us. Change the World.** At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations. There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of over 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world. We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us. **Job Description** **AECOM is actively seeking a Technical Editor to join our team in Honolulu.** The Technical Editor formats, checks acronyms, validates references, edits, and publishes technical reports, planning documents, and fact sheets for submission to city, state, and federal agencies, and commercial clients. Guides technical documentation projects through the quality control process ensuring on-time delivery to the client. May also manage all technical documentation projects for a specified contract. Typical duties and responsibilities for the Technical Editor include: Edit documents by: + Managing medium-sized projects. + Complying with client-specific style guidelines and templates. + Copyediting (i.e., correcting format, grammar, syntax, spelling, and style). + Revising text for logical flow, tone, voice, clarity, conciseness, completeness, and consistency. + Checking figures for clarity, completeness, use of symbols and styles, and correspondence with text. + Checking tables for logic of structure, accuracy, completeness, and correspondence with text. + Correcting any inconsistencies in logic. + Checking that both internal and client comments have been incorporated or addressed. + Verifying documents have the required sections based on guidance documents Format reports by: + Applying Microsoft Word template styles to text and tables. + Captioning figures, tables, appendixes, and photographs and inserting cross-references in Microsoft Word. Verify acronyms and references by: + Ensuring acronyms are spelled out only on first occurrence and that they are correctly defined in the document’s acronym list. + Verifying that references are correctly cited in text and in the reference list using Zotero (reference management tool). Researching missing references using Zotero or by asking the authoring team to provide the document information. Publish reports by: + Compiling the electronic PDF file. This task includes inserting figures, 11×17 tables, and appendixes into the PDF. + Storing project files systematically based on electronic files storage guidelines. + Making and binding reports. + Creating CDs and CD labels. May define editorial processes and standards by: + Creating style guides and templates. + Helping define editorial processes to ensure the highest levels of effectiveness and accuracy. + Assisting others in following the Company's office writing/editing and document production policies and procedures. + Formatting Excel tables based on the client-specific style guidelines. **Qualifications** **Minimum Qualifications:** BA/BS + None or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education **Preferred Experience:** 1 to 2 years of technical editing experience Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat Pro and/or PDF X-Change Editor **Additional Information** Offered compensation will be based on location and individual qualifications. The expected range is $25.00/hour - $35.00/hour. **About AECOM** AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan. AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM. **Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity** You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients. AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too. Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. **ReqID:** J10116345 **Business Line:** Environment **Business Group:** DCS **Strategic Business Unit:** West **Career Area:** Marketing & Communications **Work Location Model:** On-Site **Legal Entity:** AECOM Technical Services Inc