Job Description: Technical Editor
Position Type: Full time
Department: Learning
Role Overview
The Technical Editor plays a critical role in quality assurance within our publishing and production pipeline. This position is directly responsible for safeguarding layout accuracy, consistency, and structural integrity across typeset materials before final handover to clients.
Serving as the technical link between reviewers, compositors (typesetters), and clients, you will orchestrate the collation of master proof markups, conduct rigorous page-by-page QA checks, and manage complex editorial queries to ensure flawless client deliverables on time.
Key Responsibilities
1. Proof Collation & Master Markup
- Reviewer Consolidation: Gather, reconcile, and synthesise physical or digital markups from multiple subject-matter experts, copyeditors, and proofreaders into a clean, single master set of proofs.
- Conflict Resolution: Identify and resolve conflicting edits between reviewers before transferring instructions to production or typesetting teams.
- Client Handover Preparation:



Audit final consolidated proofs for clarity and accuracy prior to official client submission.

2. Quality Assurance (QA) of Typeset Pages
- Layout & Formatting Audits: Inspect typeset proofs against source manuscripts to verify text flow, hyphenation, page breaks, header/footer alignment, and design integrity.
- Visual Asset Checks: Ensure figure captions, tables, cross-references, equations, and artwork match designated specs and placement guidelines.
- First-to-Final Pass Verification: Validate that all author, reviewer, and client corrections have been accurately applied without introducing new layout or typesetting errors.

3. Query & Feedback Management
- Query Tracking: Maintain a structured log of editorial, technical, and layout queries arising during the production cycle.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Serve as the central point of contact to resolve queries efficiently among authors, production e

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