Job Description
Job Description
Department: Marketing
Job Type: Full-Time
Create the Content. Tell the Story. 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?
C.R. 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.R. 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.
Who Is C.R. Onsrud?
For more than a century, the Onsrud family has been driven by a passion for engineering and manufacturing innovation.
Beginning with inverted routers, the Onsrud family built its reputation by producing high-quality equipment for manufacturers.
Today, C.R. 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.R. Onsrud machines to manufacture an incredible range of innovative products—and our marketing team gets to tell those stories.
Why You'll Want to Work Here
We don't make run-of-the-mill mills.
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.
We're interested in people who want to build a career, not simply find their next job.
Our team is passionate about:
- Growth
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Curiosity
- Continuous learning
- Sharing knowledge
- Doing the right thing
If you're willing to learn, you'll fit right in.
When you succeed, we all succeed.
Your Impact
As our Marketing Assistant, you'll be one of the people behind the lens telling the C.R. Onsrud story.
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
- Employees
- Engineering and production capabilities
- Machine demonstrations
- Customer success stories
- Training programs
- Recruiting and employment opportunities
- Trade shows and company events
Your work will appear across:
- YouTube
- Social media
- C.R. Onsrud's website
- Email campaigns
- Trade show booths
- Sales presentations
- Advertising
- Brochures and collateral
- Internal communications
- 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
- Operating DSLR and mirrorless cameras
- 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
- Performing color correction
- Cleaning up and editing audio
- Creating basic motion graphics
- 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.R. Onsrud brand active and engaging online.
You'll:
- Create social media content
- Schedule posts
- Help manage the content calendar
- Monitor engagement
- Track and report content performance
- Identify content opportunities
- Follow emerging platform and content trends
- Help develop new ideas for reaching customers and potential employees
We want someone who is curious about what's working and isn't afraid to bring fresh ideas to the team.
Email Marketing
You'll help create and distribute email communications and newsletters using HubSpot, including:
- Building email campaigns
- Preparing newsletters
- Coordinating graphics and content
- Supporting campaign execution
- 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
- Brochures
- Spec sheets
- Web graphics and banners
- Social media graphics
- Trade show materials
- Sales presentations
- Recruiting materials
- Internal communications
Work Across the Company
Some of the best marketing content comes from getting out of the marketing department.
You'll coordinate with our:
- Engineering team
- Sales team
- Service team
- Production team
- 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.
You do need to be curious enough to learn it.
What We Need From You
- 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
- Basic motion graphics capabilities
- Hands-on experience operating DSLR and/or mirrorless cameras
- 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
- Comfortable collaborating with people across different departments
- Ability to safely work around an active manufacturing environment and follow PPE requirements
- 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
We're looking for hands-on experience with programs including:
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Lightroom
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- You should also be comfortable working in Google Workspace.
Social & Marketing Technology
Experience should include:
- Major social media platforms
- Social media scheduling tools
- Engagement and performance analytics
- Email marketing platforms such as HubSpot
Who Will Thrive Here?
You may be a great fit if you're:
- Creative and high-energy
- Outgoing and comfortable working with different personalities
- Comfortable directing employees, customers, and partners on camera
- Naturally curious
- Interested in manufacturing, engineering, or technology
- Excited to learn about CNC machinery
- Always looking for a better shot, stronger story, or more engaging way to present information
- 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.
Benefits of Working at C.R. Onsrud
C.R. Onsrud offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Paid holidays
- Paid vacation
- 401(k) with company match
- Medical insurance with the company covering up to 80% of the employee premium
- Dental insurance
- Vision 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
- Accident coverage
Bring Our Story to Life
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.
Apply today to join C.R. Onsrud as our Marketing Assistant.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The Company provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees in accordance with applicable federal and state laws. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics or status.