Marketing Assistant - Photo, Video & Digital Content

Marketing
Job Type:
Full-Time
Create the Content. Show the World What American Manufacturing Looks Like. Are you the person who would rather be behind the camera creating the story than sitting around talking about what content should look like? Onsrud is looking for a creative, energetic Marketing Assistant with strong photography, video, editing, and digital content skills to help bring our people, products, and brand to life.

You'll photograph and film impressive American-made CNC machinery in action, capture the people who design and build it, create customer and employee stories, develop social media content, and help produce the marketing materials that represent C.Onsrud across digital, print, trade shows, and sales. If you have a strong visual eye, know your way around a camera and Adobe Creative Suite, and want a role where you'll actually create, this could be a great opportunity. Beginning with inverted routers, the Onsrud family built its reputation by producing high-quality equipment for manufacturers.

Onsrud continues that tradition from our manufacturing facility in Troutman, North Carolina, where we design and build industrial CNC machinery engineered to process a wide variety of materials with speed, accuracy, and precision. Our customers use C.Onsrud machines to manufacture an incredible range of innovative products—and our marketing team gets to tell those stories. We build sophisticated industrial CNC machinery, and we have some pretty amazing customers using our equipment to create equally impressive products.

Our workforce includes everyone from entry-level employees to highly skilled manufacturing and engineering professionals, working together in a safe, clean, climate-controlled environment.

As our Marketing Assistant, you'll be one of the people behind the lens telling the C.Working under the direction of the Marketing Brand Manager, you'll plan, shoot, edit, and produce photo and video content showcasing our:
American-made CNC machinery
Manufacturing facility
Customer success stories
Training programs
YouTube
Onsrud's website
Advertising
Recruiting materials
This isn't a role where you'll spend all day watching someone else create. You'll be creating the content.

Photography & Video Production
You'll help take projects from idea through finished product, including:
Planning photo and video shoots
Setting up lighting and audio equipment
Filming machinery in operation
Photographing employees, products, and our manufacturing facility
Capturing customer testimonials
Producing training and recruitment videos
Shooting live content at trade shows, open houses, and company events
Editing video and photography
Cleaning up and editing audio
Preparing finished content for different digital and social platforms
You'll also help maintain an organized, accessible photo and video library so our marketing and sales teams can quickly find the content they need.

Social Media & Digital Content
Help keep the C.Onsrud brand active and engaging online.

Create social media content
Help manage the content calendar
Track and report content performance
Identify content opportunities
Follow emerging platform and content trends
Help develop new ideas for reaching customers and potential employees
Email Marketing
You'll help create and distribute email communications and newsletters using HubSpot, including:
Building email campaigns
Coordinating graphics and content
Reviewing engagement and performance
Graphic Design & Marketing Collateral
Your creativity won't stop with photography and video.

You'll also help design and update materials such as

Digital and print advertisements
Web graphics and banners
Trade show materials
Recruiting materials
Some of the best marketing content comes from getting out of the marketing department. Employees on the manufacturing floor
You'll schedule photo and video shoots while minimizing disruption to production and help translate technical information into content customers can understand and appreciate. You don't need to arrive knowing everything about CNC machinery.

Associate's or bachelor's degree in Marketing, Graphic Design, Communications, Media Production, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
A portfolio demonstrating high-quality photography and video work
Strong photography and video production skills
Experience with image and video editing
Experience with color correction and audio cleanup
Experience with lighting and audio capture
Strong visual sense for composition, lighting, and storytelling
Ability to take technical information and turn it into understandable, engaging content
Strong organization and project-management skills
Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines
Ability to carry, set up, and operate camera, lighting, and audio equipment
Willingness to occasionally travel to trade shows, customer locations, and company events
Willingness to jump in and help with other marketing projects when needed
Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe Premiere Pro
Photoshop
InDesign
You should also be comfortable working in Google Workspace.

Social & Marketing Technology
Major social media platforms
Engagement and performance analytics
Email marketing platforms such as HubSpot
Creative and high-energy
Comfortable directing employees, customers, and partners on camera
Excited to learn about CNC machinery
Organized enough to balance multiple projects and deadlines
Comfortable moving between the manufacturing floor, computer, camera, trade show, and meeting room
A true team player who doesn't believe any marketing task is beneath them
Previous machinery or CNC experience is a plus—but it is not required.

We're much more interested in finding someone with the creative ability, technical foundation, curiosity, and desire to learn. Paid holidays
~ Medical insurance with the company covering up to 80% of the employee premium
~ Dental insurance
~ Company-paid Life/AD&D policy
~ Voluntary Life Insurance Buy-Up for employees and family members
~ Short-term disability coverage
~ Long-term disability coverage
~ This is an opportunity to do more than schedule posts or update marketing materials.

You'll get to walk onto a manufacturing floor, see impressive CNC machinery being built and operated, meet the people behind it, and figure out the best way to capture that story and share it with the world. If you're ready to bring your creativity, camera skills, editing ability, and fresh ideas to a company with more than a century of engineering heritage, we'd like to meet you. Onsrud as our Marketing Assistant.