Hire a shipper-receiver in Greater Montreal
A shipper-receiver is hired on the outbound side, not the inbound one. The useful question fits on one line: how many trailers leave your dock each day, and who answers when one arrives a pallet short? This page gives you a job description to copy, the requirements the rules actually impose on a dock, and eight questions that get candidates talking about real work.
Job description to copy
Replace what is in brackets, then post it as is.
Shipper-receiver
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $22/h in Quebec, $20.50/h in Montreal (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Build shipments: gather orders, pack, label, weigh and wrap pallets
- Choose the shipping mode and book carriers and couriers
- Draw up transport documents and verify the consignee and destination shown on each lot
- Enter the declared weight on the bill of lading, sign it for the company and file the signed copy
- Book truck appointments and manage how the dock doors are used
- Supervise loading and unloading, count packages and check that loads are blocked
- Check receipts against the purchase order and log shortages and damage before the driver leaves
- Open and follow carrier claims within the deadlines set out on the bill of lading
- Prepare the paperwork and safety marks for dangerous goods shipped
- Keep the inbound and outbound register and keep the dock areas clear
Requirements
- Dock experience: building shipments, transport paperwork, checking receipts
- Secondary school completion, the usual entry requirement the National Occupational Classification lists for NOC 14400
- A dangerous goods training certificate that you issue and sign, if you offer regulated products for transport
- WHMIS training (SIMDUT in French) that you provide where the site handles hazardous products
- Forklift training meeting section 256.3 of the RSST if the clerk loads the trailers personally
- Comfort with your system and with carrier portals, demonstrated in the interview
Assets
- Experience with cross-border shipments and the documents they call for
- Experience with LTL and courier freight, where appointments come back to back
- Knows the carrier portal you use most
- A properly kept claims file at a previous employer
- Functional written French or English for drivers and dispatchers outside Quebec
- An AEC or DEC in logistique du transport, Quebec's college programs in transport logistics
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Shipper-receiver pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $22/h | — |
| Montérégie | $21.50/h | $22 (82) |
| Montréal | $20.50/h | $22 (65) |
| Laval | $21.63/h | $20.50 (27) |
| Lanaudière | Quebec figures | $21.33 (26) |
| Laurentides | Quebec figures | $21 (36) |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 14400) and median offered in job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings.
Eight interview questions
- How many trailers left your dock on a normal day, and what time did the last one go?
- Who filled in the bill of lading at your last job, and who signed it?
- The driver is in a hurry and one pallet is missing from the trailer. Walk me through what you do, in order.
- Tell me about a claim you opened with a carrier. How did it end?
- How do you verify the weight you declare on a transport document?
- Have you shipped dangerous goods? Which certificate did you hold, and who issued it?
- Two carriers show up at once and you have one free door. How do you decide?
- What finish time works for you, knowing the dock closes when the last truck pulls out?
Timelines and difficulties
Hiring a shipper-receiver runs into a vocabulary problem first. Search engines confuse receiver with receptionist, and applications follow: you will get front-desk and retail-counter résumés for a dock job. Write dock, bill of lading and carrier into the posting, not just clerk. The second difficulty is liability. This role commits the company: the bill of lading conditions make the shipper answerable for the accuracy of declared weights, and the clerk is the one who enters them and signs. Someone who has never completed a transport document will learn, but not in a week, and a shortage left off the paperwork at delivery becomes a claim you lose once the 60 days run out. The third is the clock. The dock empties when the last truck leaves, and late finishes draw fewer candidates than day shifts. Name the last pickup time in the posting. You will get fewer applications, and you will avoid the third-week resignations.
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