[Hiring] Document Specialist @Brown and Caldwell

Role Description

Brown and Caldwell (BC), a leading environmental engineering firm, is seeking an experienced Document Specialist to provide high-quality document formatting and production support for technical reports, memoranda, correspondence, and other client deliverables. This role applies company and client standards to create clear, consistent, professional, and accessible documents using Microsoft Word and PDF software.

The successful candidate will join a highly engaged and collaborative document formatting team that values partnership, knowledge sharing, and delivering excellent service. Working closely with fellow document professionals, engineers, project managers, and other team members, this individual will help solve formatting challenges, share best practices, and produce polished deliverables that meet company and client requirements.

The successful candidate will manage multiple assignments and deadlines and complete detailed formatting and final-review tasks with minimal supervision. This position may also support proofreading, template development, PDF production, document accessibility, and technical editing based on project needs and the candidate’s experience.

Remote work is available. The selected candidate must be located in the Mountain or Pacific time zone, preferably within commuting distance of a BC office.

Responsibilities

• Ensure quality deliverables by adhering to company style guide or client specific requirements.
• Develop and maintain company templates, ensuring that all document formatting tasks are aligned and that they foster uniformity across BC documents.
• Perform readability reviews and provide necessary editing to documents that ensures a smooth flow of content.
• Ensure compliance with BC document standards at all times.
• Lead and coordinate the final document reviews to ensure consistent, accurate, and high-quality documents.
• Flexibility to adapt and execute various additional assignments based on evolving needs.
• Collaborate and provide support with different teams to gather the information needed for document related projects and initiatives.
• Collaborate with engineers and project managers to gather document requirements and understanding of the required scope of work.
• Develop customized Word templates tailored to the unique needs of clients and specific projects.

General Formatting Review

• Apply styles and templates to the document to adhere to the current BC Style Guide Standards and Templates unless otherwise indicated.
• Assist and apply BC template styles and guidelines to letter correspondence, tech memos, reports, design documents, and marketing materials.
• Check word spacing and spell check.
• Format Section Titles/Header/Footers.
• Update or create Table of Contents.
• Verify word spacing meets template guidelines.
• Ensure proper pagination and page numbers are correct.
• Verify Figures and table numbering and captions are correct.
• Maintain document legal limitations.
• Track and manage document version control, ensuring that the most current version of each document is available.
• Ensure all documents are stored securely and easily accessible.
• Facilitate communication between departments regarding document updates.

Readability/Proofreading

• Provide readability and proofreading of a document ensuring the text is clear, engaging, and free of errors.
• Review entire document for punctuation capitalization, and grammatical issues.
• Check abbreviations and generate or update abbreviations list.
• Check sums in tables.
• Check tables/figures (captions/titles) and table/figure are cross-referenced in text.
• Check citations to references and cross-references to appendices/attachments.
• Provide a reasonable level of fact checking and review for consistent/correct use of names/terminology.
• Ensure parallel bullet/sentence/paragraph/document structure and clear organization of content.

Technical Editing

• Review and refine the content of a document for accuracy, clarity, and consistency.
• Address organizational issues and restructure/rearrange paragraphs where appropriate.
• Address inconsistencies in terminology, voice, and tone.
• Rewrite where necessary for clarity.
• Address structural changes, and transitions.

Document PDF Creation

• Create and compile document(s) into a PDF format using Adobe or BlueBeam software.
• Create PDF bookmarks as required to meet the project specifications.

Mentorship

• May provide mentorship, guidance, support, and knowledge-sharing to help less experienced team members develop their skills and grow within their roles.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge and proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Microsoft Word) and PDF software (i.e., Adobe or Bluebeam).
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• In-depth understanding of document formatting and using style guides.
• Capability to efficiently manage tasks autonomously while also excelling in collaborative environments.
• Proven strong aptitude for quickly mastering new software applications and documenting procedures.
• Knowledge of Document Accessibility compliance for document styles and formatting.
• Knowledge and ability to use Digital Signature Support (i.e., Global Sign or DocuSign).

Experience

• Typically, a minimum of 4 years related work experience.

Preferred Experience

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, including styles, section breaks, headers and footers, tables of contents, cross-references, captions, pagination, and complex document formatting.
• Experience formatting technical reports, technical memoranda, design documents, specifications, or other complex client deliverables.
• Experience applying corporate, client-specific, or industry style guides and document templates.
• Experience developing, modifying, and troubleshooting Microsoft Word templates.
• Proficiency with Adobe Acrobat Pro, Bluebeam Revu, or similar PDF software.
• Experience managing multiple document assignments, shifting priorities, and deadline-driven deliverables.
• Working knowledge of proofreading, grammar, editing conventions, and document readability.
• Technical editing experience, training, or certification.
• Knowledge of accessible document practices.
• Experience with document version control, file organization, digital signatures, and secure document-management practices.
• Experience supporting engineering, architecture, construction, environmental consulting, or another technical professional-services environment.
• Microsoft Office certification, technical editing certificate, accessible document certification, template-design training, or comparable professional development.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Technical Editing Certificate or other directly related experience.
• Microsoft Office Certification.
• May have Accessible Document Certification (WebAim or other certified organization certificate).
• Template Design Training or other directly related experience.

Salary Range

The anticipated starting pay range for this position is based on the employee’s primary work location and may be more or less depending upon skills, experience, and education. These ranges may be modified in the future.

• Location A: $25.40 - $34.70
• Location B: $27.80 - $38.00
• Location C: $30.70 - $41.40

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package that promotes employee health, performance, and success.
• Medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, life insurance.
• Employee assistance program, paid time off and parental leave, paid holidays.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match.
• Performance-based bonus eligibility, employee referral bonuses, tuition reimbursement.
• Pet insurance and long-term care insurance.