Hire a logistics coordinator in Greater Montreal
Hiring a logistics coordinator turns on one question: are they coordinating production or transport? Both carry the same title and live in the same occupational group, but a plant scheduler and an international shipping coordinator do not do the same job. This page gives you a job description to copy, the requirements that actually hold up, and eight questions that get a real week described.
Job description to copy
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Logistics coordinator
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $29.31/h in Quebec, $29.31/h in Montreal (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Plan and organize logistics operations, from inbound materials to outbound shipments
- Build the production schedule with the supervisor, at the best cost and within the lead times
- Coordinate activity between the warehouse and the production areas
- Keep inventory of the materials and parts production needs
- Book carriers, compare transport modes and set dock appointments
- Prepare and process customs documentation for cross-border shipments
- Enter and validate stock moves in the ERP or warehouse management system
- Write the progress, material usage and production rate reports
- Alert production, sales and the carrier as soon as a delay changes the sequence
- Document the causes of delays and bring them to the production meeting
Requirements
- A postsecondary diploma of under two years in business or supply chain management, or extensive experience in dispatch, as a production clerk or as a scheduling clerk
- Daily use of an ERP or warehouse management system, and of a spreadsheet
- A transportation of dangerous goods certificate if you offer such goods for transport: Part 6 of the federal regulations requires it, and you are the one who issues it once training is done
- Functional French and English if your carriers or customers cross the border
- Experience with shipping paperwork and customs documentation if you export
- The ability to defend a sequence when three departments claim priority the same morning
Assets
- AEC Logistique du transport, or the DEC Gestion des opérations et de la chaîne logistique (410.A1)
- Experience on the exact ERP you run, not merely on a comparable system
- Familiarity with customs brokerage and cross-border freight
- Experience in a multi-shift plant, where the sequence is rebuilt every morning
- Current WHMIS training (SIMDUT in French) if you store hazardous products
- Able to train the next coordinator on your procedures and your system
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Logistics coordinator pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $29.31/h | — |
| Montérégie | $28.85/h | $26.49 (21) |
| Montréal | $29.31/h | $32.75 (26) |
| Laval | Quebec figures | — |
| Lanaudière | $30.54/h | — |
| Laurentides | $30.38/h | — |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 13201) 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 week where your plan held from Monday to Friday. What made that possible?
- A critical inbound fails to arrive and three orders depend on it: who do you call, in what order, and who decides?
- Which system did you run, and what did you do outside the system because it had no way to handle it?
- How do you choose between paying more to deliver on time and pushing the delivery out?
- Have you prepared customs documentation? Which documents, and for what kind of shipments?
- Do you hold a transportation of dangerous goods certificate? For which classes, and who issued it?
- Tell me about a time your sequence caused a missed delivery. What changed afterwards?
- Were you coordinating mostly production or mostly transport, and which of the two suits you better?
Timelines and difficulties
The title is the first trap. Logistics coordinator covers both plant scheduling and shipment follow-up, and the National Occupational Classification files both under one group, 13201. A posting that does not pick a side attracts serious candidates who will never do what you expect, and the gap surfaces in week three. The second point is the system: nearly the whole job happens inside an ERP or a warehouse management system, and experience on one does not transfer as fast as a posting assumes. Budget weeks of ramp-up on yours, and ask for system experience in general rather than demanding your exact tool, which empties the pool. Third, compliance. If you offer dangerous goods for transport, Part 6 of the federal regulations obliges you to train the person and issue the certificate yourself — a certificate from a previous employer covers that employer's classes and tasks, not yours. Finally, state the real span of the day. Job Bank notes that a week in this occupation generally runs past forty hours; someone who finds that out after the offer walks.
We run this search for employers in Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the North Shore and the South Shore. Our recruitment service: logistics and supply chain
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