Publications Lead

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 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 while confidently leading a small team to do the same?

In this role, you will oversee a small team of Publications Specialists where you’ll be responsible for mentoring, providing guidance, and ensuring team consistency and quality while contributing directly to the work that drives results. If you thrive as both a doer and a leader, this opportunity might be a perfect fit.

We will count on you to:

• Set clear expectations, monitor workload and performance, and lead by example to ensure high‑quality deliverables, adherence to standards, and continuous improvement across the team.
• Provide guidance, mentorship, and coaching to team members to support their professional growth, enhance skills, and foster a collaborative, positive team culture.
• 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.
• 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.

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certification s

• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• 1+ year of People Leadership (supervisory) 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.

• Ability to act as both a leader and contributor.
• Ability to clearly communicate expectations, priorities, and goals, and provide constructive feedback to foster a strong, collaborative team environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail oriented with the ability to juggle multiple projects at once.
• 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…