Hire an electromechanical technician in Greater Montreal
A qualified electromechanical technician is rarely on the market: they hold a job, and they get approached. This page gives you a job description ready to copy, the requirements that actually matter, eight interview questions, and what stretches the search for this profile in Greater Montreal. The rest gets settled on the first call: the shift, the on-call duty and the range your region supports.
Job description to copy
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Electromechanical technician
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $30.75/h in Quebec, $30/h in Montreal (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Run preventive maintenance on the production equipment fleet according to the maintenance schedule.
- Diagnose and repair mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic breakdowns on the lines.
- Troubleshoot control circuits: starters, variable frequency drives, sensors, safety devices.
- Work on the PLCs: read the program, adjust the sequence, bring the line back up.
- Apply the lockout and energy control procedure before every out-of-production intervention.
- Take part in installing and commissioning new or relocated equipment.
- Document every intervention in the maintenance management system and advise on parts to stock.
- Take part in planned shutdowns and propose fixes that cut unplanned downtime.
- Coach operators on routine settings and on the first checks to run before calling maintenance.
- Mentor apprentices assigned to the team and sign off their supervised hours when a qualification certificate is under way.
Requirements
- DEP en électromécanique de systèmes automatisés, or equivalent industrial maintenance experience.
- Certificat restreint en connexion d'appareillage where the job involves connecting or disconnecting equipment.
- Reading electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic drawings, and a method for diagnosis.
- Use of your plant's lockout and energy control procedures.
- Current WHMIS training for the hazardous products your plant handles.
- Enough autonomy to troubleshoot when the line is down and nobody else is on site.
- Availability for the posted shift, the rotation and the on-call duty, if your plant has one.
Assets
- Hands-on time with the PLC brand you actually run, not PLCs in general.
- Certificat de qualification en électricité, when some work touches the installation itself.
- Forklift training meeting CSA B335, or elevating work platform experience.
- Welding, machining, or maintaining a robotic cell.
- Knowledge of your industry: clean rooms in pharma, washdown and allergens in food, presses in plastics.
- Working English for manufacturer documentation and technical support.
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Electromechanical technician pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $30.75/h | — |
| Montérégie | $33/h | $30.52 (44) |
| Montréal | $30/h | $33.29 (15) |
| Laval | $31/h | — |
| Lanaudière | Quebec figures | $34.37 (17) |
| Laurentides | Quebec figures | — |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 72422) and median offered in job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings.
Eight interview questions
- Describe the last intermittent fault you tracked down: which readings led you to the cause?
- Which PLC brand have you worked on, and what exactly did you change in the program?
- How do you lock out a machine fed by electricity, compressed air and hydraulics at once?
- Which qualification certificates do you hold, and which one did your last job require?
- A drive trips on overcurrent at start-up: where do you begin, and in what order?
- Tell me about a planned shutdown you worked: what were you assigned, and how was the time counted?
- How do you document your work, and what do you record that someone else would not?
- Which shift would you turn down, and what would make you leave a maintenance job?
Timelines and difficulties
Three things stretch the search, and all three get settled before the posting goes up. A range that sits under the median for your region: the pay page gives that median, region by region. An evening shift, a rotation or on-call duty revealed late in the process: the candidate redoes the math and steps back. A requirements list that piles electricity, automation and mechanics together without saying which comes first: nobody recognises themselves in all three at once. Then the certificate: if the job means connecting equipment, check it before the start date, not after. Finally, a technician who already holds a job weighs your offer against work they know, and owes notice where they are: the start date does not follow the acceptance. Name the machines in the posting. A technician reads the equipment list before the salary line, because it tells them whether the job will teach them anything.
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