Visual Communications Specialist
Part-timeChicago, ILPart-time$18–22/hrPosted 1w agoStill listed 4 days ago
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Job overview
The Visual Communications Specialist combines customer-facing sales and estimating with hands-on sign production. The role responds to inquiries, recommends sign products and materials, prepares estimates and work orders, and fabricates, assembles, and inspects custom signs. The posting describes a part-time position of approximately 20–25 hours per week, with work split between office and production-shop tasks.
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Full job description
Position Type: Part-Time (approx. 20–25 hours/week)
Job Summary We are seeking a versatile and detail-oriented team member for a Visual Communications Specialist opportunity. This position bridges client interaction and hands-on craftsmanship. You will be responsible for taking inbound sales calls, assisting customers with product selections, calculating accurate job estimates, and physically fabricating and assembling custom signs in our production shop.
If you are a great communicator with a strong mechanical aptitude and an eye for quality detail, this role offers an engaging blend of office and workshop experience.
Key Responsibilities
Sales & Estimating
• Handle Inbound Sales: Respond promptly and professionally to inside sales calls, emails, and walk-in customer inquiries.
• Consultative Selling: Understand client needs, recommend appropriate sign types, materials, and production techniques.
• Estimate Creation: Calculate accurate job quotes and formal estimates based on sign dimensions, materials, labor, and installation requirements using our estimating software.
• Order Processing: Convert approved estimates into work orders and ensure all job details, artwork files, and specifications are clearly communicated to production.
Sign Production & Fabrication
• Sign Assembly & Building: Fabricate, assemble, and finish a variety of sign products (e.g., vinyl graphics, banner finishing, channel letters, acrylic/PVC signs, dimensional lettering, and outdoor structures).
• Material Preparation: Safely operate equipment such as vinyl plotters, wide-format printers, laminators, CNC routers, panel saws, and hand tools.
• Application: Prepare substrates (cleaning, cutting) and apply vinyl graphics accurately without bubbles or flaws.
• Quality Control: Inspect finished products to ensure high standards, accurate dimensions, and adherence to client proofs before delivery or installation.
Qualifications & Skills
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for managing sales calls and customer relationships.
• Mathematical & Analytical Skills: Strong practical math skills (geometry, unit conversions, measurements) needed for creating precise job estimates.
• Technical Aptitude: Ability to read scaled proofs, technical drawings, and work orders accurately.
• Hands-on Craftsmanship: Experience with hand tools, power tools, precision cutting tools, and material assembly.
• Computer Literacy: Proficiency with basic office software and estimating tools (familiarity with design programs like Illustrator is a plus).
• Physical Capabilities: Ability to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for extended periods in a shop environment, and perform detailed manual work.
Preferred Experience
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Previous experience in a sign shop, print shop, or custom fabrication environment.
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Background in inside sales, customer service, or price estimation.
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Hands-on experience with wide-format printing, laminating, or vinyl application.
How this job compares
Set against the 1,502 open Inside Sales jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$18–22/hr
- Illinois median$24–29/hr20 hourly ranges
- US median$22–30/hr397 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $20/hr, is 25% below the Illinois median midpoint ($27/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Inside Sales hourly ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 56 open Inside Sales jobs in Illinois and 1,502 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- SCI Shared Resources, LLC9 open
- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company)4 open
- FASTSIGNS3 open
- Experience
- Inside Sales postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (731 postings).
- Education
- 147 of the 1,502 open Inside Sales jobs (10%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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