Document Publisher

Title: Document Publisher

Location:  Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Capabilities: Business and Sales

Office Setup

Hybrid

Job ID #30109

Job Description:

Market

Enterprise Functions

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.

Your impact

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

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.

Here's what you'll need

• 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. You're comfortable communicating verbally and in writing, you ask questions for clarity, and you're not shy about hunting down answers. You're adept at communicating with publishing colleagues, team leaders, contributing authors, and project managers alike.
• Expertise formatting in Microsoft Word (MS), Excel, and PowerPoint according to an established company brand or project-specific styles and template requirements.
• MS Word: Expert knowledge creating and applying Word templates, manipulating styles, using mail merge, creating and using macros, section breaks, page layout, cross-references, tracked changes, and troubleshooting document formatting issues
• MS Excel: Working knowledge of workbook formatting, formulas, and manipulating graphs and charts
• MS PowerPoint: Basic knowledge of how to apply formatting to an established template
• Expertise in standard publishing programs
• Acrobat: Expert knowledge of creating complex PDFs of reports that include multiple figures, tables, and appendixes for client review. Experience preparing large documents for publication by inserting blanks, rotating pages, creating bookmarks 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 files) multivolume PDFs using advanced techniques including OCR, optimization, headers/footers
• Understanding of a wide variety of shared workspace platforms (SharePoint, ProjectWise, etc.), document-related software techniques, visual mediums, and delivery options
• Experience working as part of a team and collaborating with editorial, graphic design, document publishing, production, and technical staff
• Demonstrated time management skills, to include completing work on time, communicating your current workload and upcoming availability, scheduling your participation on long-term projects, and efficiently offloading work to your colleagues if you're overbooked
• A commitment to providing the best quality work you can in the time provided for the work, to include engaging in quality reviews both as a doer and as a reviewer and implementing feedback

Ideally, you'll also have:

• 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 best practices for document accessibility (Section 508, AODA, WCAG, PDF/UA)
• Experience in an engineering consulting environment

Posted Salary Range: Minimum

52,400.00

Posted Salary Range: Upper

68,700.00

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 (allocated plans start date 17 days per calendar year), seven paid holidays, one floating holiday, and caregiver leave and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount as well as legally mandated 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 additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant 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 enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support.

This position will be open for at least 3 days.