Manufacturing Coordinator - Traffic Sign Production

Do you thrive in fast-paced production environments where coordination, leadership, and problem-solving drive success? Are you passionate about delivering high-quality work while supporting safety, efficiency, and team collaboration? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a Manufacturing Coordinator – Traffic Sign Production!

Beacon Lite is one of the top providers of traffic control equipment and services. We are a fast-paced, growing business, with over 60 years of traffic control experience. Locally, we have operations in Ottawa, Gatineau, Kingston, and Sudbury with over 250 employees between our 4 locations.

Beacon Lite has merged with the Universal Group, an industry leader that was recognized as one of Canada’s best-managed companies in 2025, in Traffic Control Personnel, Traffic Management Planning, Traffic supplies, Occupational Health and Safety Training, Landscaping, and Staffing services. We offer an entrepreneurial environment with opportunities for job advancement and continued education.

The Manufacturing Coordinator - Traffic Sign Production is responsible for coordinating daily production activities while exercising sound judgment, effective time management, and a calm, professional approach. The role requires the ability to make timely decisions, provide clear guidance in a respectful and tactful manner to ensure safety, quality, delivery, and performance standards are consistently met.

• Develop and maintain daily and weekly production schedules for traffic sign manufacturing, ensuring alignment with customer delivery requirements, material availability, and shop capacity.
• Demonstrate strong time management by balancing competing priorities, shifting workloads, and responding effectively to production changes.
• Make day-to-day production decisions to maintain flow, meet deadlines, and address constraints.
• Coordinate workflow across graphics, printing, fabrication, and finishing operations to optimize throughput and minimize bottlenecks.
• Communicate production plans, priorities, and schedule changes clearly and calmly to production staff, supervisors, and management.

• Coordinate fabrication activities including cutting, forming, laminating, mounting, and finishing of traffic signs.
• Provide clear, tactful guidance to fabrication staff to ensure expectations are understood without escalation or disruption.
• Make real-time decisions to resolve fabrication issues while maintaining quality and safety standards.
• Ensure fabrication processes meet engineering drawings, sign standards, and quality expectations.
• Verify completed signs meet dimensional, visual, and durability standards prior to release.

• Provide feedback to production employees across graphics, printing, and fabrication areas.
• Assess performance issues promptly escalating to the Manufacturing Operations Manager when progressive discipline is required.
• Responsible for ensuring that attendance tracking is updated based on proper staffing requirements.

• Enforce quality control procedures throughout graphics, printing, and fabrication processes.
• Ensure all signs comply with applicable municipal, provincial, and national traffic sign standards.
• Exercise decision‑making authority to stop or elevate production when quality or compliance risks are identified.
• Promote a quality‑first mindset and accountability among production staff.

• Coordinate with inventory and purchasing to ensure availability of substrates, reflective sheeting, inks, laminates, and hardware.
• Make timely decisions to address material shortages or substitutions to prevent production delays.
• Monitor material usage and report discrepancies to maintain production continuity.

• Use Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets/Nesting Files to support production scheduling, capacity planning, material tracking, and performance reporting.
• Create, update, and analyze spreadsheets using formulas, pivot tables, filters, and basic data visualization.
• Maintain accurate…