About PSI

PSI is a fast growing full-service transportation engineering firm with three decades of delivering award-winning, innovative engineering services to governments at all levels, public agencies, and private clients. Our team of diverse professional engineers, planners, researchers, and software developers combine practical experience and cutting-edge technology to solve operational and design issues facing our communities' transportation systems.

Who We Are:

Precision Systems, Inc. (PSI) embraces technology in design. PSI is a transportation engineering consulting company that serves public and private organizations in the D.C., Northern Virginia, and Maryland regions. We provide services such as roadway and intersection design, construction management and inspection, signal and street lighting design, traffic analysis and reporting, crash analysis and countermeasure design, software development, data management, and more.

Who You Are:

PSI is seeking to hire a Proposal Technical Writer to assist in our pursuit of transportation and civil engineering government contracts. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience writing, editing, and researching proposals and other technical content. The Proposal Writer will be a strong writer with a passion for effective, persuasive communication and critical thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Actively leads or participates in the development of technical approach win strategy element


• Demonstrates leadership in persuasive writing, establishing style guidelines, and proposal development best practices


• Conducts evidence-based research and interviews with subject-matter experts (SMEs); identifies and prioritizes relevant information to inform the development of a technical approach


• Leads a cohort of contributing writers and SMEs to prepare a winning proposal response


• Writes all or portions of the Technical Approach as assigned.


• Copyedits and proofreads content to ensure accuracy and grammatical correctness


• Supports quality control of content and products throughout the development process


• Supports the development and production of a variety of PSI publications and marketing collateral, including reports, journals, articles, brochures, flyers, and promotional items


• Collaborates with the PSI Business Development Team to research and pursue new opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, English, or a related field


• 3+ years of proposal or technical writing experience for state/federal


• Strong written and verbal communication skills


• Excellent organizational and leadership skills; adaptable; capable of performing individual and collaborative work in a fast-paced environment


• Ability to quickly comprehend and communicate on diverse subject matters in transport engineering, data analytics, and software development


• Previous training in proposal development

Preferred Qualifications:

• An advanced degree in Communications, English, or a related field or a Bachelor’s/advanced degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)


• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator)


• Certification from Shipley and/or APMP

** Precision Systems is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, clients, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Persons with Disabilities

Benefits:

• Competitive salary


• Generous 401k Match


• Discretionary annual merit-based bonus and annual raise


• Strong medical, vision, and dental insurance


• and more!

Precision Systems, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, veteran status, or military status.