Overview
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Base pay range
$52,400.00/yr - $68,700.00/yr
This range is provided by Jacobs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
At Client Deliverables Solutions (CDS), we help our project teams tell the story of the work we do at Jacobs. Our professional editing and publishing services bring life to project communications and present technical information in an approachable, understandable way. From multivolume regulatory submittals to work-planning document and project reports, CDS partners with project teams to develop and deliver quality, consistent, and cost-effective publications that demonstrate how Jacobs is challenging today and reinventing tomorrow. Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow.
We’re looking for a talented, highly motivated, and energetic Document Publisher to join our team of creatives in North America (currently in a hybrid capacity; 2 days in office per week if you live within 50 miles of an office). You’ll be part of a thriving, collaborative, inclusive team, delivering professional documents to our internal and external clients. You’ll engage with publishing colleagues to create and refine project documentation into clean, clear, attractive publications, following standard processes and adhering to client requirements.
A Document Publisher’s diverse range of skills includes expert-level experience in styles-based formatting in Microsoft Word; advanced PDF development to include OCR, optimization, and headers and footers; strong communication skills throughout the document development process, working collaboratively with a team to ensure workload is shared and deadlines are met; commitment to ensuring in-place processes are used and quality approaches are employed; dedication to quality and process adherence.
Our Document Publishers work on a document from conception to production and delivery and track and manage multiple concurring deliverables.
Bring your curiosity, talent for multitasking and collaboration, and extreme organizational skills and we’ll help you grow, pursue and fulfill what drives you - so we can make big impacts on the world, together.
This is a non-exempt, hourly paid position.
Responsibilities
- Experience ushering a document through its development phases from startup to client submittal. You’ve worked directly with authors and project team leads and have engaged other editors, publishers, and designers as needed to support document development. You’ve helped coordinate and manage a lot of moving pieces to create a finished document that can be up to thousands of pages and hundreds of megabytes.
- Strong professional communication skills. Comfortable communicating verbally and in writing, asking questions for clarity, and engaging with publishing colleagues, team leaders, contributing authors, and project managers.
- Expertise formatting in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint according to established brand or project styles and template requirements.
- MS Word: expert knowledge creating and applying templates, manipulating styles, mail merge, macros, section breaks, page layout, cross-references, tracked changes, and troubleshooting formatting issues.
- MS Excel: working knowledge of workbook formatting, formulas, and manipulating graphs and charts.
- MS PowerPoint: basic knowledge of applying formatting to an established template.
- Expertise in standard publishing programs; Acrobat: creating complex PDFs of reports with multiple figures, tables, and appendixes for client review; preparing large documents for publication (bookmarks, blanks, etc.).
- InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop: basic knowledge is a plus but not required.
- Experience with Bluebeam, PDF-XChange Editor, or other PDF software.
- Experience compiling large (5,000+ pages, 300+ MB) multivolume PDFs using OCR, optimization, headers/footers.
- Understanding of shared workspace platforms (SharePoint, ProjectWise, etc.) and delivery options.
- Experience working as part of a team with editorial, graphic design, document publishing, production, and technical staff.
- Demonstrated time management skills, including completing work on time, communicating workload, and coordinating participation on long-term projects.
- Commitment to quality reviews and incorporating feedback to deliver high-quality work within deadlines.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree; relevant job experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Basic understanding of grammatical rules, punctuation, and references and citations.
- Experience with document accessibility practices (Section 508, AODA, WCAG, PDF/UA).
- Experience in an engineering consulting environment (preferred).
Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 401(k) plan, paid time off, holidays, and other benefits. The base salary range for this position is $52,400.00 to $68,700.00; though will be paid hourly based on hours worked. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and job-related skills, experience, and education or training.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations to deliver their best work.
This position will be open for at least 3 days.
Contact Careers Support if you require reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process.
Posted salary range: 52,400.00 - 68,700.00. This is a refined description of the original job content.