Hire a storekeeper in Greater Montreal
Hiring a storekeeper turns on two specifics: what the storeroom holds and who it serves. A tool and consumables storeroom feeding maintenance does not call for the same reflexes as a replacement parts counter. This page gives you a job description to copy, requirements that hold up, and eight interview questions.
Job description to copy
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Storekeeper
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
- Receive deliveries, check them against the purchase order and log damage and short shipments
- Shelve materials, consumables and wear parts at coded locations
- Issue materials against a requisition or a work order and charge them to the right equipment
- Lend out tools and measuring instruments, track their return and flag what comes back damaged
- Maintain minimum and maximum levels and prepare replenishment requests
- Enter every movement in the ERP or CMMS the same day
- Run cycle counts and the full physical inventory, then document the variances
- Store hazardous products according to WHMIS labels and safety data sheets
- Stage materials ahead of planned shutdowns and scheduled maintenance
- Keep the storeroom orderly and its access controlled
Requirements
- A secondary school diploma: the National Occupational Classification states it is usually required for this occupation
- Able to read a purchase order, a requisition, a work order and an equipment bill of materials
- Experience on an ERP or a CMMS and with a barcode scanner
- WHMIS training if your storeroom receives or stores hazardous products
- Forklift training under section 256.3 of the RSST if the job includes driving a lift truck
- Works alone: the storekeeper often holds the storeroom single-handed through the shift
Assets
- Maintenance storeroom experience — tools, wear parts, consumables — rather than a finished goods warehouse
- Used to setting minimum and maximum levels and calculating reorder points
- Hands-on with the system you run, named in the posting itself
- The DEP en conseil et vente de pièces d'équipement motorisé for a storeroom built around vehicles or machinery
- Functional French or English depending on your catalogues and suppliers
- Able to refuse an undocumented issue without turning it into a fight
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Storekeeper 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
- What did the storeroom you ran actually hold: tools, consumables, replacement parts, supplies?
- How did you set the reorder point for an item, and based on what?
- Your last full physical inventory: what variance did you find, and what explained it?
- A mechanic shows up mid-breakdown, the system says zero but there is stock on the shelf. What do you do, in order?
- Someone wants to take material without a requisition and is in a hurry. How does that go?
- Which system did you use, and what did you key into it yourself?
- How did you handle borrowed tools that never came back?
- How did you store hazardous products, and where were the safety data sheets kept?
Timelines and difficulties
Three things stretch out a storekeeper search. The first is the word itself: occupation 14401 pools the plant storeroom with a retailer's parts counter, so a posting that says only « storekeeper » pulls both profiles and leaves you sorting. Name what the storeroom holds and who it serves. The second is the public sector: school service centres and health facilities draw from the same pool, with job classes defined by collective agreement — the support staff classification plan asks class I for a DEP in a relevant specialty or a secondary V diploma plus two years of relevant experience, and some service centres add a test to pass before the posting period. A private employer who names neither the schedule nor the system starts behind that kind of clarity. The third is that the role is usually a crew of one, with no backup, and an experienced candidate always asks who covers the storeroom during vacation. Have the answer ready. Name the system too — ERP, CMMS — and say plainly whether driving a lift truck is part of the job.
We run this search for employers in Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the North Shore and the South Shore. Our recruitment service: warehousing and distribution
If the placement does not hold six months, we replace it.
The replacement is on us. You do not pay twice for the same role.
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