This post involves project management, copy-editing and liaison with clients and suppliers.

Your responsibilities will include producing a wide range of publications, including reports, basic textbooks and highly illustrated academic works on a variety of subjects.

You will be resourceful and flexible in outlook and be confident in dealing with academic authors, editors, copy-editors, typesetters, proofreaders and others involved in the prepress process. You must be able to plan and organise your workload and work without supervision.

This post is full-time (37.5 hours weekly).

The salary range is £18,000 to £22,000. Highly experienced candidates may be considered for the position of senior production editor, for which the salary range rises to £26,500.

• Plan and manage the production of several projects for one or more clients, overseeing all stages from receipt of copy to supply of files for printing.
• Prepare files for on-screen editing and typesetting.
• Brief and liaise with in-house or external copy-editors, typesetters, artists, proofreaders and indexers and give feedback if appropriate.
• Liaise with authors, editors, clients and suppliers.
• Undertake proofreading and on-screen copy-editing.
• Mark up figures for relabelling or redrawing or size illustrations.
• Assess the suitability of electronic artwork for reproduction and resolve associated problems.
• Maintain project databases and records and prepare project status reports for clients.