Marketing Specialist

Marketing Specialist

Location: Downers Grove, Illinois, 60515, United States

Department: Marketing

Job Description:

Interested in working for the industry leader? Interested in having a substantial stake in an employee owned firm? Looking to help your neighbors and impact your local community? RJN Group employees can answer yes to all of those and more. Currently we are seeking a Marketing Specialist to join the RJN family.

 

Marketing at an engineering firm is different. You're translating technical work into compelling stories—learning how infrastructure gets built and helping clients understand why RJN is the right partner to build it. If that kind of challenge sounds engaging rather than daunting, keep reading.

 

 

Position Summary:
The Marketing Specialist will be at the center of our marketing efforts across RJN's nationwide offices, working closely with the Marketing Director and the broader team. You'll create compelling content—from graphics to long-form writing—that shapes how clients, partners, and colleagues see us. This is a hybrid position based out of our corporate headquarters in Downers Grove, IL.

 

 

Position Responsibilities:

 

 

Proposal Development – You will work with internal stakeholders to develop materials that support the pursuit and acquisition of business opportunities for our nationwide footprint. A deep acumen for messaging and a strong command of grammar is key to this role. You will ensure compliance with RFP/RFQ requirements and leverage strong written skills to convey technical knowledge and position RJN as the most qualified firm. Tasks include developing, writing, and editing Statements of Qualifications, proposals, prequalification forms, and other business communication documents, and interview preparations

 

 

Communication and Brand Positioning – Strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as the ability to inspire, influence, and engage with a variety of technically and geographically diverse staff and external audiences. Ensuring that the intended and conveyed messages align is paramount to this position’s success. Tasks include composing, tracking, and monitoring internal and external communications channels, corporate social media and other online applications, drafting articles, and working with individual offices to bolster our impact through conferences, events, and speaking opportunities.

 

 

Creative Development – Advance internal and external business development initiatives by creating or updating marketing collaterals, generating video content, and all other forms of communications using the Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Office 365, and other tools. Tasks include developing brochures and sales materials, creating social media posts, preparing reports, internal newsletters, and presentations for various audiences.

 

 

Essential Skills & Experience:
• A bachelor’s degree in marketing or a related field is required
• 3-5 years of relevant experience (experience with drafting press releases, technical or proposal writing, and layout experience preferred)
• Strong technical writing and proofreading skills.
• Ability to understand and deal with complex material and concepts; demonstrated intellectual curiosity and interest in learning the firm’s work.
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign / Illustrator / Photoshop) and other similar software
• Experience with customer relationship management (CRM) software, direct marketing applications, and web-based tools—Unanet CRM, HubSpot, Google Analytics. General technology proficiency is required.
• Social media/website management/short- and long-form content writing
• Experience with marketing research and analysis
• Multi-tasking and the ability to meet deadlines as well as adjust to changing priorities

 

 

Physical Demands & Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Physical demands: Typical office environment requirements.
• Work environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The noise level in the office environment is usually moderate.
• Personal Protective Equipment: None required in the office. If working in the field, the employee must wear steel-toe boots, Class 2 or Class 3 safety vest, high visibility T-shirt, leather gloves, safety glasses, hard hat, and other standard equipment required by assignment or job task.

 

 

RJN is an employee-owned professional engineering and specialty field services firm providing sustainable collection system solutions for infrastructure owners. RJN is an ENR Top 500 Design Firm and Top 200 Environmental Firm as well as a Top 50 Trenchless Technology Design Firm.

 

 

Since 1975, RJN Group Inc. has provided our customers with value-driven engineering solutions to enable them to meet their service demands. Our employee-owned firm is capable of tackling projects of almost any scale; from small studies to multi-million-dollar, total plant rehabilitations.

 

 

Our customers are also our neighbors. We have offices from as far West as Colorado to the East Coast. This means that our staff are supporting the communities they live in. We are locals and take pride in keeping our communities and sister cities running. Those we work for have come to associate our name with trust, creativity, reliability and quality.

 

 

We let innovation take the lead. We perform unique services for water, wastewater, and stormwater systems, by investing in leading technologies to differentiate us, while keeping costs down and efficiency up

 

 

RJN provides a very competitive benefit package including:
• Company-funded employee stock ownership plan
• Medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, long-term disability insurance benefits
• 401K matching retirement plan
• Flexible work arrangements and schedule
• Tuition assistance including student loan repayment
• Professional development opportunities
• Wellness programs
• Paid Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off
• Holiday time off
• Casual dress code

 

 

RJN is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We support a diverse work force.