Hire a warehouse clerk in Greater Montreal
Hiring a warehouse clerk turns on one question: does this person work inside your system, or beside it? Someone who learned to fix inventory on paper will be slow in front of your software, and the reverse holds too. This page gives you a job description to copy, the requirements the rules actually impose, and eight questions that get candidates talking about real work.
Job description to copy
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Warehouse clerk
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
- Receive deliveries, verify quantities against the purchase order and log discrepancies
- Enter receipts in the warehouse management system and label the items
- Assign and maintain storage locations, and keep the location plan current
- Pull stock requested by production or other departments
- Run cycle counts and trace the source of gaps with the supervisor
- Process supplier returns, rejected goods and parts sent out for repair
- Keep inventory records and flag reorder points before a stockout
- Operate a forklift or pallet jack when put-away calls for it
- File shipping paperwork and the documents for dangerous goods received
- Keep the receiving and put-away areas clear and safe
Requirements
- Experience receiving goods and keeping inventory in a warehouse, plant or wholesale operation
- Genuine comfort with a warehouse management system and a spreadsheet, demonstrated in the interview
- Secondary school completion, the usual entry requirement the National Occupational Classification lists for NOC 14400
- WHMIS training (SIMDUT in French) that you provide, if your warehouse receives or stores hazardous products
- A dangerous goods training certificate that you sign, if the shipments you receive fall under the federal regulations
- Forklift training meeting section 256.3 of the RSST if the role includes driving a lift truck
Assets
- Hands-on experience with the warehouse management system you run
- Used to cycle counting rather than only an annual physical inventory
- Knows the parts or products you store
- An AEC or DEC in logistique du transport, Quebec's college programs in transport logistics
- Functional French or English depending on how your suppliers and carriers write
- Able to train new hires on your receiving procedure
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Warehouse clerk 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
- Which system did you enter your receipts in, and what did you most often wish it did?
- A truck arrives one box short of the purchase order. Walk me through what you do, in order.
- Tell me about an inventory gap you traced back to its cause. What was it?
- How do you decide where to store an item you are receiving for the first time?
- How do you run a cycle count while the warehouse keeps operating around you?
- What do you do with a pallet that arrives with the wrapping torn open?
- Have you ever received dangerous goods? Which documents did you have to handle?
- In your last shift, how much time was in front of a screen and how much was in the aisles?
Timelines and difficulties
Hiring a warehouse clerk gets complicated for one plain reason: the title does not describe the work. Two identical postings can mean a receiving job spent at a screen on one side and a put-away job spent on pallets on the other, and candidates apply for one while picturing the other. Name the system you run in the posting, along with the share of the shift spent on the screen and the share spent in the aisles. You will get fewer applications, but the ones you keep will still be there after three weeks. The second difficulty is the paperwork. A candidate who shows up with a dangerous goods training certificate signed by a previous employer does not excuse you from anything: Part 6 of the federal Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations requires the certificate to come from the current employer. The same holds for WHMIS and for forklift training, which has to cover your own site. Budget for that training instead of demanding it at the door.
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.
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