Greater Montréal · Québec
Staffing agency for Greater Montréal employers
Warehouse, distribution, manufacturing, driving and office staff for the port and the east end, the airport cargo zone and the West Island, the aerospace and pharmaceutical plants of Saint-Laurent, and the distribution parks of Laval, the South Shore and Vaudreuil, recruited in French and English.
Where we place staff
11 cities across Greater Montréal
Covered from Markham with recruiters assigned to Québec who work in French and English, a candidate pool built around the island, Laval and the South Shore, and on-site visits for every new client.
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Overview
Staffing in Greater Montréal
Greater Montréal is Canada's second-largest labour market and its most distinctive. Containers land at the Port of Montréal, Canada's second-largest port, which handled a record 1.5 million of them in 2025, and move by rail and truck through the east-end yards and out along Autoroutes 20, 25 and 40. Air cargo clears at Trudeau in Dorval and feeds the freight forwarders and warehouses of the West Island. Saint-Laurent and Mirabel hold one of the world's three largest aerospace clusters; Saint-Laurent alone has some 4,500 businesses and 108,000 jobs, the region's second-largest employment pole, and the same borough holds the pharmaceutical and life-sciences plants that make Montréal a hub for the industry.
Around that core, distribution and food processing have spread to where land and labour are: Laval and the north shore along the 15 and 440, Longueuil, Boucherville and Brossard along the 20 and 30, and the newer large-format buildings at Vaudreuil-Dorion where the 30, 20 and 40 meet. Every one of those sites needs manutentionnaires, caristes, préposés à l'expédition and the office staff around them, and they need them to be able to work in French.
We recruit for Greater Montréal in both languages. Candidates are interviewed in the language they are most comfortable in, employment documents are provided in French, and our client contacts speak French, so a placement here feels local even though the paperwork is handled from Markham.
Employment areas
Where the work is
- 01
The port and the east end (Montréal-Est, Anjou, Pointe-aux-Trembles)
Container terminals, rail yards, transload warehouses, petroleum and chemical plants and the trucking that serves them. Lumpers, forklift operators, shippers and receivers, classe 1 drivers and yard staff.
- 02
Trudeau airport and the West Island (Dorval, Pointe-Claire, Lachine)
Air-cargo terminals, freight forwarders, courier hubs and distribution along Autoroutes 20 and 40, plus the CN Taschereau and CPKC Lachine intermodal yards that feed container traffic into the West Island. Cargo and dock workers, forklift operators, customs and logistics coordinators and customer-service staff, many roles requiring an airport security clearance.
- 03
Saint-Laurent: aerospace, pharmaceutical and electronics
Aircraft component plants, pharmaceutical manufacturing, medical devices and the Technoparc. Assemblers, machine operators, GMP production and packaging staff, quality technicians and administrative support.
- 04
Laval and the north shore (Autoroutes 15, 440 and 640)
Distribution centres, food and beverage processing, pharmaceutical and cosmetics plants from Chomedey to Terrebonne. Order pickers, packers, production operators and sanitation crews, with heavy fourth-quarter peaks.
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The South Shore (Longueuil, Boucherville, Brossard)
Boucherville's industrial park, with roughly 575 businesses, and the 20/30 corridor hold retail and grocery distribution, consumer-goods and food plants and aerospace suppliers around Saint-Hubert airport. Pickers, forklift operators, production staff and shipping clerks.
- 06
Vaudreuil-Dorion and the 30/40 junction
The newest large-format distribution buildings in the region, serving Québec and eastern Ontario from one site. General labour at volume, forklift operators and inventory clerks, often on 24-hour patterns.
Roles in demand
What Greater Montréal employers hire through us
In Greater Montréal we most often fill picker, packer and manutentionnaire shifts for retail and grocery distribution in Laval, Boucherville and Vaudreuil, caristes for 3PL and parts warehouses, dock and cargo staff around the port and the airport, production operators for food and pharmaceutical plants, and bilingual customer-service and administrative roles for head offices and freight forwarders.
- Manutentionnaires, pickers and packersRF-scanner picking, packing and material handling for distribution centres.
- Caristes (forklift operators)Counterbalance and reach, with certification verified before introduction.
- Production and GMP operatorsFood, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and aerospace component plants.
- Classe 1 and classe 3 driversPort drayage, local pick-up and delivery, and regional runs.
- Shippers, receivers and logistics clerksDock control, customs documentation and dispatch support.
- Bilingual office and customer serviceReception, administration, data entry and customer service in French and English.
How it works
How a Montréal placement works
Québec, Canada
Workers assigned to Québec clients are paid in accordance with the Act respecting labour standards: the 40-hour standard week, overtime at time and a half, statutory holidays and vacation pay, and the rule that agency workers may not be paid less than the client's own employees doing the same work. Workers' compensation runs through the CNESST's public scheme and payroll remittances go to Revenu Québec, with the registrations and reporting handled on our side. Québec also requires every personnel placement agency to hold a CNESST permit, and a client may only retain a permit holder, so ask us for our permit details before we begin.
Everything the worker signs is available in French, interviews are held in the candidate's preferred language, and your contact at Assured for Québec work speaks French. If your site runs in English or in both languages, we screen for that too.
- Québec's placement-agency permit regime, equal-wage rule and shared health-and-safety duty built into every engagement
- Québec labour standards: a 40-hour week with overtime at time and a half, statutory holidays and vacation pay
- Payroll, Revenu Québec and federal remittances handled by Assured
- Employment documents in French; bilingual recruiting and client contact
- Temporary, temp-to-perm and permanent terms
Assured Employment Services operates in accordance with the labour, tax and workers' compensation laws of each province and state where it places staff, and never charges job seekers a fee.
For workers
Getting to work in Greater Montréal
On the island, the STM's métro and buses reach most industrial boroughs, including routes created for shift workers into the Lachine and Saint-Laurent industrial parks and a network of all-night routes. Exo trains serve Dorval, Pointe-Claire and Vaudreuil but run only every two to three hours off-peak, the STL covers Laval, the RTL covers Longueuil and Boucherville, and the REM links Brossard and, since late 2025, the Deux-Montagnes line to downtown, with an airport station due in 2027.
The newer distribution parks at Vaudreuil-Dorion, the north shore at Terrebonne and much of Boucherville's park are car-dependent, especially for night and weekend shifts. We confirm transportation before placing anyone on a shift the métro does not cover, and carpooling from Laval and the South Shore is common among our long-term workers.
From the GTA, Montréal is about six hours by Highway 401 and Autoroute 20, just over an hour by air, or five hours on VIA Rail's Corridor service.
Open now
Current openings in Greater Montréal
No Greater Montréal openings posted right now
New roles in Greater Montréal are posted as clients order them. Register your resume and a recruiter will call when something suitable opens up, often before it is posted.
Or call the office
647-627-9754
Mon–Fri 7am–8pm · Sat–Sun 8am–6pm
Questions
Frequently asked
Do you have an office in Montréal?
Not yet. Our office is in Markham and our Québec recruiters work by phone, video and regular site visits, in French and English. Client kick-offs happen at your facility, and candidate interviews are held by video or at your site when you want to meet people first.
Can you recruit in French?
Yes. Candidates are interviewed in the language they prefer, employment documents are provided in French, and your Assured contact for Québec work speaks French. For sites that operate in English or both languages, we screen for that as well.
What do warehouse and production roles pay in Montréal?
Pay is set by each client. Across our placements, manutentionnaire and general-labour roles typically start between $18 and $21 an hour, caristes between $20 and $25, production and GMP operators between $19 and $26, and bilingual customer-service and administrative roles between $21 and $28.
How quickly can you staff a Laval or South Shore warehouse?
Pickers, packers and general labour usually within one to two business days of the order. Caristes and shippers typically take two to four days because we verify certification and references first. Fourth-quarter ramp-ups of twenty or more people need about a week's notice.
Do you cover the port and airport zones, where clearances are needed?
Yes. For airport-cargo and port roles we screen for the background checks and security clearances the site requires before an introduction, so the people we put forward can actually start.
Elsewhere
Other regions we staff
We also place staff in Milton, Waterloo, London, Brantford, Keswick and Ottawa on request, from the same Markham team.
- Greater Toronto AreaOntarioOur home market: Brampton, Mississauga, Vaughan, Scarborough, Toronto, Markham, Hamilton and Oshawa, each with its own page.
- Windsor–EssexOntarioWindsor's assembly, engine and battery plants, the tool-and-mould cluster, the border logistics around two international bridges, the Leamington greenhouses, and west along the 401 to Chatham-Kent and Sarnia.
- AlbertaAlbertaCalgary's inland port at Balzac and the southeast industrial districts, Edmonton's Nisku–Leduc and Acheson parks and the Industrial Heartland, the QEII corridor through Red Deer, and food processing in Lethbridge.
- KentuckyKentuckyLouisville's air-cargo, automotive and appliance belt, the I-65 distribution corridor through Bullitt County, Northern Kentucky's airport logistics hub, and manufacturing from Georgetown and Lexington to Bowling Green and Elizabethtown.
- IndianaIndianaThe Indianapolis logistics corridors at Plainfield, Whitestown and Mount Comfort, the express-parcel hub at the airport, Southern Indiana's River Ridge, and manufacturing and steel from Fort Wayne, Kokomo and Lafayette to Evansville, Elkhart and the Northwest Indiana mills.
Hiring in Greater Montréal?
Tell us the role, the shift and the site. A staffing specialist replies during office hours, usually the same day.