About Us
We are a growing, small print and signage company located in Sherwood Park. Over the past 7 years, we've built a strong reputation for quality, customer service, and delivering projects on time. As our business continues to grow, we're looking for an experienced Graphic Designer / Print Project Coordinator to join our team and play an important role in supporting our continued growth.
This is a full-time, on-site position based in Sherwood Park, as the role requires daily collaboration with our production team, face-to-face customer interaction, and hands-on involvement in our print shop.
This is not an entry-level position. We are seeking someone with 4+ years of professional graphic design experience, ideally within the print, signage, or large-format graphics industry. The ideal candidate is creative, highly organized, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and enjoys seeing projects through from concept to completion.
Our shop processes 30+ projects every day, so you'll need to be comfortable managing multiple priorities, working efficiently under deadlines, and maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
Because we are a small business, every team member wears multiple hats. While graphic design and pre-press are a major focus of this position, you'll also be involved in project management, customer service, production coordination, and helping ensure jobs move smoothly through our shop.
Job Overview
As our Graphic Designer / Print Project Coordinator, you'll create high-quality, production-ready designs for a wide variety of customers and applications.
You'll work directly with customers to understand their needs, develop creative solutions, prepare and revise artwork, create proofs, and work closely with our production team to ensure every job is properly set up and ready for production.
In addition to graphic design and pre-press, you'll provide project management and coordination for the jobs you're working on. This includes keeping track of customer approvals, revisions, job specifications, deadlines, and production requirements to help ensure projects move smoothly through the shop.
This role is ideal for an experienced designer who enjoys variety, is comfortable working directly with customers, and likes seeing projects through from the initial idea to the finished product.
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality graphics for print, signage, vehicle wraps, apparel, promotional products, marketing materials, and digital applications.
- Prepare customer-supplied artwork for production, including file setup, corrections, resizing, and pre-press.
- Create accurate, production-ready artwork while considering materials, finishing methods, installation requirements, and production limitations.
- Manage multiple design and print projects simultaneously while ensuring deadlines are met.
- Work directly with customers to understand their design and printing needs and recommend appropriate creative and production solutions.
- Prepare customer proofs, manage revisions, and obtain artwork approvals.
- Coordinate projects from initial request and artwork development through approval and production.
- Keep track of customer approvals, job specifications, deadlines, materials, and production requirements.
- Work closely with production staff to ensure artwork is production-ready and meets quality standards.
- Create logos, branding materials, marketing collateral, signage layouts, vehicle graphics, decals, banners, displays, labels, and other custom print layouts.
- Help customers select appropriate products, substrates, paper stocks, materials, and finishing options based on their application and budget.
- Maintain brand consistency across customer and company projects.
- Assist with project scheduling, job tracking, and customer communication.
- Communicate with vendors and suppliers when required to coordinate customer projects.
- Stay current with industry trends, design techniques, printing methods, materials, and software updates.
- Assist with general office duties and support other team members when required.
- Occasionally assist with production-related tasks when needed.
- Occasionally drive company or personal vehicles for customer visits, site measurements, supplier pickups, deliveries, or other business-related tasks.
Qualifications & Experience
- 4+ years of professional graphic design experience required.
- Previous experience in a commercial print shop, sign shop, or large-format graphics environment is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of print production, substrates, paper stocks, and finishing processes, with the ability to advise customers on appropriate products and materials.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Illustrator is required.
- Working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
- Thorough understanding of print production, file preparation, bleeds, colour management, preflight, and pre-press workflows.
- Experience designing for signage, vehicle wraps, decals, banners, displays, labels, apparel, and promotional products is a strong asset.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities while consistently meeting production deadlines.
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with a customer-focused approach.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to producing accurate, production-ready artwork.
- Comfortable working directly with customers and discussing design, materials, production options, and project requirements.
- Self-motivated, dependable, and able to work independently while contributing positively to a collaborative team environment.
- Ability to adapt quickly when deadlines or production priorities change.
- Experience using or learning CRM/project management software is considered an asset.
- Must have a valid driver's licence and be comfortable driving when required for work-related tasks.
This is a production-focused graphic design position. The successful candidate must be able to create visually appealing designs for customers while balancing creativity with speed, efficiency, accuracy, manufacturability, and profitability in a high-volume print production environment.
What We're Looking For
The right candidate is someone who:
- Takes pride in producing exceptional, production-ready work with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Thinks creatively while developing practical and efficient solutions to design and production challenges.
- Understands that great design must also work within the realities of print production.
- Is confident working directly with customers and enjoys building strong client relationships.
- Can take a customer's idea and turn it into an effective, professional, production-ready design.
- Understands the fast-paced nature of a commercial print shop and thrives in that environment.
- Can seamlessly switch between graphic design, pre-press, project coordination, customer communication, and production support throughout the day.
- Can manage several projects at different stages while keeping track of approvals, revisions, deadlines, and production requirements.
- Is highly organized, dependable, self-motivated, and capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
- Works well as part of a team and communicates effectively with both customers and production staff.
- Is willing to help wherever needed as part of a small-business environment.
- Understands the importance of balancing creativity with efficiency, manufacturability, customer expectations, and profitability.
- Enjoys variety and seeing projects move from an idea on screen to a finished physical product.
- Is eager to grow with a company where initiative, innovation, and contributions are recognized and valued.
Work Environment
This is a full-time, in-person position at our Sherwood Park location. This role requires regular interaction with customers and our production team and is not a remote position.
You'll be working in an active commercial print and signage environment where priorities can change quickly and multiple projects are moving through production at the same time.
If you're an experienced graphic designer who enjoys variety, understands print production, is comfortable working directly with customers, and wants to see your work go from concept to finished product, we'd love to hear from you.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.00-$26.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care
Education:
- Secondary School (required)
Experience:
- Adobe Creative Suite: 3 years (preferred)
- Adobe Illustrator: 3 years (required)
- Graphic design: 4 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Location:
- Sherwood Park, AB T8A 2J6 (preferred)
Work Location: In person
