Job Description
Job Description
Job Title: Technical Editor/Writer I
Location: Hazelwood, MO
Technical Editor/Writer I
Description/Job Summary
HGL - WHO WE ARE
At HGL, we value our employees as individuals and as important members of our team. We offer a work environment that is flexible, inclusive, and dedicated to creating a sustainable future. We provide opportunities for a dynamic work environment surrounded by industry leaders working to solve today’s environmental, infrastructure, and natural resources challenges.
HGL offers career advancement through internal and external training, skill advancement, and education. Projects at HGL span the United States and its territories all while solving problems associated with emerging contaminants (PFAS, radiological, and unexploded ordnance) along with traditional chemical contamination across all media.
With over 550 employees, HGL is large enough to execute high profile projects, but small enough that personal working environments are possible with senior management and HGL's talented team members. By joining HGL, you will be working toward restoring the environment and protecting our future.
HGL - WE INVEST IN YOU
It’s not just a job, it’s your career. HGL provides career growth opportunities via mentoring, training, education, and support for your certifications and licenses. HGL’s mission is to continually deliver new solutions and technologies for the ever-changing range of environmental challenges encountered in today’s world. HGL’s corporate culture ensures you’ll be given the opportunity for career advancement while being supported by bright, highly productive peers and leaders.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
HGL is seeking an experienced junior-level Technical Editor / Writer to support the St. Louis Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP). This position is responsible for editing, writing support, document production, and controlled deliverable management for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) projects. The ideal candidate is a meticulous editor with strong technical writing instincts who can partner with scientists and engineers to deliver clear, accurate, client-ready documents on schedule. This position is on-site in our St. Louis office in Hazelwood, MO.
Responsibilities/Duties
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
Technical Editing and Writing Support (Primary Focus)
- Provide hands-on technical editing for complex environmental and engineering documents, ensuring clarity, consistency, and compliance with HGL and USACE standards.
- Edit and format key FUSRAP deliverables, including (but not limited to):
- Scopes of Work
- Site Work Plans
- Pre-Design Investigation Reports
- Design documents and technical memoranda
- Document Review Comment Records (DRCRs)
- Improve document readability by revising structure, flow, and technical phrasing while preserving author intent.
- Verify that tables, figures, references, acronyms and abbreviations, units, and citations are correct and consistent throughout.
- Apply and help maintain project-specific style guides, templates, and formatting standards.
Document Coordination and Quality Control
- Manage the editorial process across draft development, interdisciplinary reviews, and final deliverable production.
- Track versions and comments, consolidate redlines, and ensure resolution of internal and client review feedback.
- Coordinate closely with Project Managers, Engineers, Geologists, CAD/GIS, and other technical staff to keep deliverables moving.
Document Control and Delivery
- Prepare final, controlled deliverables for submittal to USACE, ensuring correctness of format and completeness of required components.
- Maintain organized document records within SharePoint or other document management systems.
- Support archiving, retrieval, and lifecycle tracking of project deliverables.
Required Skills
WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Technical Communication, Journalism, or related field.
- 2+ years of technical editing / technical writing experience, preferably supporting environmental, remediation, engineering, or federal projects.
- Expert-level command of grammar, punctuation, and technical style; able to edit highly technical content with precision.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word (styles, templates, formatting, etc.) and strong working knowledge of Excel.
- Proficiency in Adobe Acrobat.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and deliverables simultaneously.
- Experience working in collaborative review environments (comment matrices, redlines, formal QA/QC cycles).
- Must pass HGL editorial test that will be given to all candidates as part of the interview process (1 hour time limit).
Preferred Skills
WHAT YOU NEED TO STAND OUT – Preferred, not required
- Prior experience supporting USACE or other federal clients, especially under FUSRAP or similar remediation programs.
- Familiarity with environmental project documentation and regulatory/federal deliverable structures.
- SharePoint document library experience.
Details
MORE ABOUT HGL AND THE OPPORTUNITY
We are all unique in our experiences and diversity of backgrounds, yet we share a drive and vision in our belief that we can make a difference in improving the world we live in through collaboration, teamwork, and a positive work environment. This unites and empowers us to strive for excellence in all our endeavors.
A pre-hire drug test is required.
Project hours are 6:30am-5:00pm Monday-Thursday. Alternate or extended shift scheduling may be required short-term to meet project demands.
This specific role supports a U.S. Federal government contract which requires employees engaged on this contract to be U.S. citizens.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or other protected category. Some positions may require U.S. citizenship. Applicants who wish to request a reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process should contact Human Resources directly at 703-478-5186.
EEO notices: US Equal Opportunity Employment Poster, US Equal Opportunity Supplemental Poster, Know Your Rights, and Pay Transparency Notice.
A full list of benefits is available at www.hgl.com/careers/.
The salary range for this position ranges from $52,489.00 - $73,485.00 annually. This position's final salary can be impacted by various factors including, but not limited to, contractual requirements, geographic location, job-related education, training, experience, and skills. If your desired salary falls outside of this range, we hope you'll still apply as there may be other positions that better align.
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Project hours are 6:30am-5:00pm Monday-Thursday. Alternate or extended shift scheduling may be required short-term to meet project demands.