Text Processor Clerk

Idaho National Laboratory is hiring a Text Processing Clerk to work on our Document Management team. Our team works a 4x10 schedule located out of our Materials and Fuels Complex, with every Friday off.

This position is located at our Materials and Fuels Complex, which hosts the core of the U.S. nuclear research and development capabilities with a diverse array of facilities designed for remote work on highly irradiated fuels and materials. A new fuel idea can be designed, fabricated, tested, and analyzed at MFC to better understand the effects of irradiation. Many groups, such as universities, industry partners, other national laboratories, international research organizations, and other federal agencies are working at MFC.

The text processing clerk will type, scan, convert, compose, design, and format pages, both mechanically and electronically. Produce documents such as corporate/technical reports, newsletters, brochures, flyers, and presentation overheads incorporating text, equations, tables, complex page layouts with graphics, and electronic publishing. Develop and use templates to simplify work processes.

Responsibilities Include:

• Provide text processing support.
• Prepare technical documents using advanced knowledge of standard software and processes. Create and apply styles and templates to simplify the text processing processes. Use INL standards, formatting, and styles to maintain lab compliance while still meeting customer needs.
• Ensure assigned tasks are formatted according to customer specifications within company guidelines using provided templates. Working with large complex documents, presentations, reports, using and understanding Microsoft Office capabilities to include styles.
• Estimate duration of projects and provide legitimate due dates.
• Participate in a meeting (in-person and virtual) environment to make changes to a variety of documents, on a screen in a conference room.
• Identify and resolve formatting problems with general guidance in electronic copies of documents and incorporate special customer requirements. Interface daily with customers, including management, editors, operators, engineers, scientists, and administrators to achieve optimum output and milestones. Provide recommendations to customers on ways to accomplish jobs that might be time- and cost-saving.
• Work in a fast-paced text processing organization with text processors, technical editors, and customers to ensure production schedules are met, using word processing equipment to complete assignments.
• Detect and resolve text processing issues.
• Interface with lead text processor to resolve questions and uncertainties related to documents.
• Documents necessary information in job tracking databases. Monitor requests and close out jobs in databases when necessary. May maintain production and billing logs.
• Verify accuracy, consistency, and completeness of documents, make corrections, and obtain verification that job requirements have been obtained.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and simple database maintenance.
• Ability visualize document format after content is rearranged and edited.

Minimum Requirements:

• Level 2: High school diploma or equivalent plus 2 years relevant experience. (Two years of relevant experience and Vocational Certificate).
• Level 3: High school diploma or equivalent plus 4 years relevant experience. (Four years of experience and Vocational Certificate)
• Microsoft Office Certified with 1 year of relevant experience.
• Basic computer skills such as user IDs, passwords, logging into applications.

Job Information:

• The pay range for this position is Level 2 ($20.31/hr - $32.50/hr)/ Level 3 ($22.93/hr - $37.82/hr). At Idaho National Laboratory compensation decisions are determined using factors such as education, relevant experience, and other credentials.

• Multi-Level: This is a multi-level posting and you will be placed at the appropriate level dependent on depth and breadth of proven experience and skills.

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this classification, the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, stoop, kneel, bend, and work in an office environment. The job requires hand/finger dexterity to keyboard or type, handle materials, manipulate tools, and reach with hands and arms. The job requires the operation of office equipment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds with assistance. Sufficient visual acuity and hearing capacity to perform the essential functions and interact with people is required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.