Sr Specialist

Title:

Sr Specialist, Publications

BELONG. CONNECT. GROW. with KBR.

Around here, we define the future. We are a company of innovators, thinkers, creators, explorers, volunteers, and dreamers. But we all share one goal: to improve the world responsibly and safely.

KBR is seeking an experienced Sr Specialist, Publications to edit and proofread our technical and management proposal content for grammar, punctuation, style, clarity, and factual correctness ensuring content distills complex technical terms into easy-to-understand proposal content and marketing materials.

Besides editing and proofreading, the Sr Specialist, Publications tasks also include creating briefs, white papers, plans, manuals, and presentations. Experience in conceptualizing graphics to best convey proposal/document messages and solutions is required. The Sr Specialist Publications contributes to the layout of the content consistent with request for information and request for proposal requirements to best convey response content. The successful candidate will collaborate with management and technical experts to ensure clarity of content and refine content for final production and delivery of documents.

This position reports directly to the Senior Manager of Proposal Operations.

The successful candidate must demonstrate strong communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback to our technical writers to help them improve the quality of their writing and possess the ability to provide support within tight turnaround timelines. The Sr Specialist, Publications must also have the ability to work collaboratively with a variety of diverse teams assembled based on expert needs.

Additional Responsibilities Include:

Edits technical content for accuracy, clarity, grammar, and style
Ensures all content is easy to understand and adheres to KBR and client style guidelines, incorporates approved KBR capture solutions, is compelling, and fully compliant with customer solicitation requirements
Understands complex instructions while editing with extreme attention to detail
Possesses strong collaboration and organizational skills
Independently researches and identifies existing proposal content for applicable relevance to requirements, and interviews subject matter experts to compile compelling proposal content
Provides feedback and suggestions for improvement to technical writers
Creates templates and proposal global consistency/wall of truth documents for writing teams when necessary
Writes or edits content within schedule deadlines
Recommends and participates in the development of meaningful graphics to most effectively convey solutions and messages
Works all documents using the company provided content database (SharePoint)

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Education: Must have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in English, Journalism, Engineering, Applied Science, or similar fields
At least 6 years of proven work experience in a similar role
Strong computer skills and experience working with SharePoint and using Microsoft 365 products
Excellent communication skills

PREFERRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

Prior experience working with technical experts to collect and document proposal content.

KBR BENEFITS

KBR offers a wide range of benefits for their employees; we offer medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, disability benefits, retirement 401k, travel benefits, PTO, holidays, flexible work schedules, parental leave, military leave, education assistance, and the list goes on and on. We also support career advancement through professional training and development.

INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY AT KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people, sustainability, and our Zero Harm culture.

These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to and ongoing journey toward being a more inclusive and diverse company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment of real collaboration across cultures and locations. Our individual differences and perspectives bring enhanced value to our teams and help us develop solutions for the most challenging problems. We understand that by embracing those differences and working together, we are more innovative, more resilient, and safer.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.