Publications Specialist

We are Herrera

Envision yourself at a growing, employee‑owned company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best performance while making a difference in the world.

We are Herrera, a science, planning, and design consulting firm dedicated to working with clients to develop holistic solutions that provide social and environmental benefit. We protect the environment every day by providing a diverse range of consulting services to cities, counties, state and federal agencies, Tribes, non‑profits, and private clients throughout Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and western Canada.

For over 40 years, Herrera has cultivated a collaborative, caring, and values‑driven culture that empowers our employee‑owners to achieve excellence while ensuring we have fun along the way. By providing our employee‑owners with the autonomy to pursue their professional interests and through encouraging them to grow, we benefit from high employee‑owner retention that contributes to our longstanding partnerships with clients.

• Treat everyone with respect and dignity, always.
• Insist on integrity, objectivity, and social and environmental ethics in our work.
• Act as stewards of the environment upon which we depend.
• Research and outreach, learn and teach.
• Employee owners, employee leaders.

Are you a creative person who also utterly detests typos and formatting errors? Can you speed‑read a technical manual on any subject and quickly decipher all the jargon? Are you a self‑starter who is eager to demonstrate creative solutions, tackle challenges, and crush deadlines? Do you like to work independently but also with a team that respects each other's expertise and enjoys working together?

If so, this opportunity might interest you.

In this role we will count on you to:

• Edit and format technical deliverables for correctness, completeness, organization, clarity, consistency, grammar, and conformity with Herrera style guidelines
• Understand grammatical rules, clear and concise writing, and references and citations
• Use your graphics knowledge and experience to present technical information in creative and visual ways
• Collaborate with colleagues to balance workload and rely on standard processes and tools to make your time as efficient as possible
• Navigate various shared workspace platforms (SharePoint, Teams), visual mediums, and delivery options
• Maintain files and systems to organize, streamline, and advance the delivery of technical deliverables
• Demonstrate time management skills including completing work on time and scaling your approach to suit the project schedule
• Create, merge, and structure standard PDFs, including fillable forms

• 4+ years of relevant professional experience
• BA/BS in marketing, environmental science/engineering, communications, English, journalism, or similar, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience designing and producing documents in Adobe and Microsoft Office software

• Expert command of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and composition
• Ability to transform technical information into reader friendly content
• Highly skilled in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Adobe Acrobat Professional
• Proficient in Adobe InDesign (full Adobe Creative Suite is a plus)
• Ability to meticulously review completed work and correct issues with spelling, punctuation, and format
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once
• Ability to maintain composure under pressure and meet deadlines

• Ability to be both rigorous and flexible in your approach to work
• Layout and design skills with desire to learn more in this area
• Ability to assist the Senior Graphic Designer with graphic requests, as needed.
• Previous A/E/C industry experience

Applications will be reviewed starting the week of January 5, 2026.

• This position is hourly and nonexempt from overtime; the hourly rate is $35.67- $45.19
  • Pay rate is determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple…