Writer (Editor 3)

About the role

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Writer (Editor 3) to contribute to our mission supporting our work at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring Safety Basis documents are clear, consistent, compliant, and ready for internal and external review.
• Editing, formatting, and quality-checking Safety Basis documents, including but not limited to Documented Safety Analyses (DSAs), Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs), Hazard Analyses and supporting calculations, and Safety Evaluation Reports and change packages.
• Ensuring documents comply with applicable DOE orders, standards, and site-specific requirements (e.g., DOE O 420.1, 10 CFR 830); improving clarity, organization, and consistency of highly technical material without altering technical intent.
• Applying and enforcing document standards, templates, style guides, and configuration management requirements; coordinating with authors, engineers, and nuclear safety analysts to resolve comments and improve document quality.
• Supporting internal reviews, audits, and readiness activities by preparing documents for approval and submittal; tracking revisions, managing comment resolution, and maintaining version control.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in English, Journalism, Technical Communication, Physical Science, Social Science, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.

Skills

• At least 6–8 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience editing technical or regulatory documentation; strong command of grammar, technical style, and document structure.
• Experience working with SMEs in highly regulated environments.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and document control tools.
• Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance.
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client-driven drug and background testing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience editing DOE Safety Basis documents (DSA, TSR, USQ-related documentation).
• Familiarity with configuration management and formal document review processes.
• Experience supporting Department of Energy (DOE) or nuclear industry programs is highly desirable; prior Department of Defense (DoD) experience is also preferred.
• Active DOE Q clearance.