Hire a warehouse supervisor in Greater Montreal
Hiring a warehouse supervisor turns on three specifics: the shift they will cover, how many people they will lead, and what they are allowed to decide alone. A posting silent on all three pulls in every level at once. This page gives you a job description to copy, the requirements that actually hold up, and eight questions that tell a shift lead from a supervisor.
Job description to copy
Replace what is in brackets, then post it as is.
Warehouse supervisor
Location: [city], Greater Montreal · Schedule: [day / evening / night], [number] h per week
Pay: [to be set] (benchmark: median $29.32/h in Quebec, $28.85/h in Montreal (Job Bank))
Responsibilities
- Lead the shift crew: forklift operators, order pickers, material handlers and clerks
- Plan the shift from forecast volume and redistribute the work when the volume changes mid-shift
- Own the shift numbers and explain the gaps to operations management
- Confirm a person has the required training before assigning them to equipment, and keep the authorization register
- Onboard, pair and assess new hires through their probation period
- Investigate accidents, near misses and equipment damage, and put the correction in place
- Hold inventory accuracy: cycle counts, discrepancy investigations, approved adjustments
- Manage absences, replacements, hour approvals and first-level discipline
- Coordinate with production, transport, customer service and maintenance
- Take part in the site's health and safety committee
Requirements
- Supervisory experience in a warehouse or distribution centre, on the shift you are filling
- A college diploma in management or logistics, or several years of experience in the occupation being supervised
- Command of a warehouse management system and fluent reading of operating reports
- Working knowledge of the employer's health and safety duties, including the training section 256.3 of the Règlement sur la santé et la sécurité du travail requires before anyone operates a lift truck
- Writes what needs writing: incident report, training register, disciplinary notice
- Availability for the posted shift, handover overlap included
Assets
- The training certificate required by Part 6 of the Transportation of Dangerous Goods Regulations, if your docks ship them
- Hands-on experience with the warehouse management system you run
- Cold storage, food-grade or licensed warehouse experience
- Current forklift training, to cover a gap in the shift without waiting
- Functional English or French depending on where your carriers come from
- Experience standing up a new shift, moving a warehouse or implementing a system
What we offer
[benefits, insurance, shift premiums, training]
Warehouse supervisor pay benchmark
| Region | Median | Offered in postings |
|---|---|---|
| All of Quebec | $29.32/h | — |
| Montérégie | $29.42/h | $27.75 (28) |
| Montréal | $28.85/h | $34.75 (42) |
| Laval | Quebec figures | — |
| Lanaudière | $27/h | — |
| Laurentides | Quebec figures | $23.04 (12) |
Median published by Job Bank (NOC 12013) and median offered in job postings (6 months, February to August 2026); in brackets, the number of hourly postings.
Eight interview questions
- How many people did you lead, on which shift, and how many different trades were in your crew?
- Walk me through your first hour on shift: what do you look at, in what order, and what do you tell the crew?
- Volume doubles with no warning three hours before the shift ends. What do you change, and who do you call?
- Tell me about a time you pulled someone off a piece of equipment. How did you say it, and what did you write down?
- An operator does not have the required training for the truck they are being asked to run tonight. What do you do?
- Which decisions were yours alone, and which ones needed approval?
- How did you learn to lead people who used to be your co-workers, and what was hardest about it?
- Which inventory discrepancy did you have to explain, and how did you trace it back to the cause?
Timelines and difficulties
A warehouse supervisor is a first-line management role, and that is what makes the search slow. The pool splits in two: shift leads who know the floor but have never held disciplinary authority, and office managers who have never run a dock. Both answer the same posting. The second difficulty is the shift. Evening, night and weekend roles are the ones that open most often and the ones candidates ask for least; someone who takes nights “to start” leaves for the first day job that appears. The third is the title itself — supervisor, lead, manager mean different things from one company to the next. Put the shift, the headcount, the reporting line and the decision authority in the posting. Settle the manager-status question before the interview too: Quebec's Loi sur les normes du travail excludes a manager from the overtime premium at section 54, the CNESST interpretation guide decides that status on real duties rather than the title, and a surprise there costs you a departure a few months in.
We run this search for employers in Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, the North Shore and the South Shore. Our recruitment service: logistics and supply chain
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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