Production Coordinator

Financial Edge; Cambridge; On-site; CAD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The Liftsafe Group of Companies is seeking a Production Coordinator to oversee the fabrication shop processes, ensure timely project consumption, and coordinate with purchasing and warehouse. This role emphasizes strong communication, organization, and multitasking in a fast-paced environment.

In-office position with a focus on coordinating materials, schedules, and vendor interactions to meet project deadlines and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary degree in business or equivalent with problem-solving aptitude.
• Exceptional time management and organization.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.
• Background in industrial safety sales is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Oversee fabrication shop orders from creation to material posting.
• Support inventory management and ensure correct bin locations.
• Assist with picklist completion and future material planning.
• Coordinate with purchasing on consumables and PPE.
• Maintain timely project consumption and communicate expectations.
• Collaborate with warehouse to pick items from inventory.
• Create vendor lists and coordinate timing for coatings and services.
• Log daily time sheets to project records.
• Assist with production timeline adjustments.
• Identify bottlenecks and material shortages early.

Skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Multitasking

Communication

Problem-solving

MS Office

Industrial safety sales (asset)

Education

Post-secondary business degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Company Description:

Liftsafe Group of Companies is a privately owned company that designs, builds, inspects and maintains lifting, material handling, and fall protection systems equipment.

Job purpose

The primary purpose of the Production Coordinator is to oversee the process and coverage for the fabrication shop, supporting the Microsoft Business Case process flow and group objectives. They will ensure project consumption is completed in a timely manner. They will identify and sequence the activities required to meet the project goals, and determine the resources needed to successfully complete the project. T this position is posted due to a current vacancy.

Duties and responsibilities

• Managing Assembly orders from creation to requisition material and posting once assembly orders are complete.
• Help with inventory management, spot checks, ensure parts have bin locations and are properly put into stock
• Support picklist completion
• Look at future demands and ensure we have materials to meet the demands to meet target dates
• Notifying purchasing for all shop related consumables as required, gases, welding supplies, paint related products, hardware, PPE
• Ensuring project consumption is completed (assemblies, non-vendor purchases) in a timely manner
• Effectively communicate expectations to team members in a timely and clear fashion
• Working with the warehouse to communicate items needing to be picked from inventory
• Creating lists of products that need to be sent out to vendors, notifying purchasing and shipping of these lists and the dates in which they are required ( i.e. powder coating, galvanizing, machine shops)
• Entering the daily time sheet hours into the corresponding projects on BC
• Purchasing and inventory control; working with purchasing to confirm which products from the picklists are stock in inventory
• Assist with adjusting production timelines as required
• Ability to keep communication lines open between departments (warehouse, procurement, QC, shop floor supervisors)
• Help to Identifying bottlenecks, material shortages and short falls before it becomes problematic

Qualifications

• Possession of a post-secondary degree in business or equivalent working experience with a demonstrated aptitude for problem-solving; ability to determine solutions for customers.
• Exceptional time management and organization skills:
• The ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Effective interpersonal skills, with a strong emphasis on communication skills (verbal /written).
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office Suite applications.
• A background in industrial safety sales is an asset.

Working conditions

• Working near other co-workers.
• Background noise can be distracting at times – conversations, noise from fabrication/shop area, etc.
• This is an in-office/in-person position, not remote or hybrid.

Physical requirements

• Sitting and typing for extended periods of time.

It is the policy of The Liftsafe Group of Companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law. The Liftsafe Group of Companies welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.