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. 

Our Values

• 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.

Your Opportunity

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

Minimum Qualifications

Education, Experience, & Licensure/Certifications

• 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

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• 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

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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

We are proud to support our employee-owners by offering the following compensation and benefits:

• This position is hourly and nonexempt from overtime; the hourly rate is $ $45.19
  • Pay rate is determined during the interview process and will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to years of experience, type/relevance of experience, skillset, geographic location, and fit for the role
• Flexible hybrid work culture
• Medical/prescription drug/dental/vision insurance for employees and dependents; employees covered at no cost on base plan with buy-up options available; company contribution for dependents
• Section 125 flexible benefits plans – healthcare and dependent care
• Company-paid life insurance for employees; option to purchase additional life insurance for employees and dependents at employees' expense
• Company-paid long term disability insurance for employees; option to purchase short-term disability insurance at employees' expense
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) – we are 100% employee owned
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Paid vacation, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40 hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours/week
• Paid sick leave, accrued bi-weekly, equivalent to 10 days per year for a 40-hour/week employee and prorated for employees working 24-39 hours per week
• Flexible paid holidays (10)
• Paid volunteer time (8 hours annually)
• Company-paid annual membership dues for one professional organization
• Professional development / continuing education allowance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Transit benefit

To learn more, please visit our website at:

We Are Committed to Equal Opportunity, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Herrera, we celebrate our differences as much as our similarities. We know the best outcomes come from interdisciplinary, diverse, and inclusive teams. Our values are ever-present in the people, culture, and work we do, they are not just a few sentences on our website. We treat people with respect and act with integrity and objectivity. Our employment decisions are based on knowledge, skills, and abilities, and have nothing to do with your race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, medical history, reproductive health decisions, political ideology, veteran status, or physical appearance. As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, we encourage women, minorities, veterans, disabled veterans, and individuals with disabilities to apply for our open positions. We are also a member of E-Verify. To learn more about E-Verify, read the E-Verify Notice and the Right to Work Notice.