Hire a parts clerk in Greater Montreal
Hiring a parts clerk turns on what sits behind the counter: automotive parts, heavy truck parts or plant equipment parts. The catalogue changes and so does the search reflex. This page gives you a job description to copy, the requirements the Montreal region decree actually imposes, and eight questions that show whether someone can find a part number.
Job description to copy
Replace what is in brackets, then post it as is.
Parts clerk
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $24/h in Quebec, $25.44/h in Montreal (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Identify the part requested from a vehicle identification number, a serial number, an exploded view or the electronic catalogue
- Serve mechanics at the counter and answer retail or fleet customer requests
- Issue parts against the work order and charge them to the right vehicle or piece of equipment
- Place routine and emergency orders with suppliers and follow up on back orders
- Receive deliveries, check them against the purchase order and shelve at coded locations
- Process returns, warranty parts to be sent back and cores on exchange units
- Keep inventory current in the system the same day and run cycle counts
- Flag parts sitting dead on the shelf and propose stocking adjustments
- Stage parts ahead of scheduled services and manufacturer recalls
- Store oils, solvents, aerosols and batteries according to labels and safety data sheets
Requirements
- A secondary school diploma: Statistics Canada lists it as usually required for this occupation
- A competency card from the automotive sector joint committee or a certificate of qualification if your establishment falls under the automotive services decree
- A class 5 driver's licence if the job includes picking up or delivering parts
- Able to read an electronic parts catalogue, an exploded view and a vehicle identification number
- Experience on a parts management system or a CMMS and with a barcode scanner
- Forklift training under section 256.3 of the RSST if the job includes driving a lift truck
Assets
- Knows your brands and your suppliers rather than a generic catalogue
- The DEP en conseil et vente de pièces d'équipement motorisé
- Used to warranty returns and to exchange units with cores
- Heavy truck or off-road equipment experience if your fleet runs them
- Functional English or French depending on your catalogues and suppliers
- Able to refuse a doubtful substitution rather than have the vehicle come back
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Parts clerk pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $24/h | — |
| Montérégie | $24/h | $24 (64) |
| Montréal | $25.44/h | $23 (58) |
| Laval | Quebec figures | $21 (23) |
| Lanaudière | Quebec figures | $24 (21) |
| Laurentides | Quebec figures | $24.75 (22) |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 14401) and median offered in job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings.
Eight interview questions
- A mechanic hands you a vehicle identification number and a part to find: walk me through your search, step by step.
- Which catalogues and parts systems have you used, and which one do you know best?
- How do you decide to offer an aftermarket substitute instead of the original part?
- Tell me about the last time you ordered the wrong part. How did you find out, and what did you do?
- How did you handle a defective part under warranty, and the cores on exchange units?
- The system says one left, the shelf is empty and the vehicle is on the hoist. What do you do, in order?
- Which parts were sitting dead on your shelves, and what did you propose doing with them?
- Which hours can you work: opening, evenings, Saturdays?
Timelines and difficulties
Three things stretch out a parts clerk search. The first is the catalogue: the job is learned brand by brand and supplier by supplier, so a posting that says only « parts clerk » pulls the automotive counter and the plant parts room alike, and neither arrives ready. Name your brands, your system and the type of vehicles or equipment. The second is the decree: if your establishment belongs to the automotive services industry of the Montreal region, the position is classed D, C, B or A according to hours accumulated selling or distributing parts, and an experienced candidate will ask for their class before discussing anything else. Know it before the interview. The third is the schedule: a counter that opens before the mechanics, closes after them and runs on Saturday does not reach the same pool as a weekday parts room in a plant. Say it in the posting, along with the class 5 licence if picking up parts is part of the work. The pool narrows, but the people who show up know what they are walking into.
We run this search for employers in Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the North Shore and the South Shore. Our recruitment service: warehousing and distribution
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