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The engineering market in Montreal offers real opportunities today for qualified professionals. Whether you're actively looking or simply open to what's out there, Fed Manutech connects you with Greater Montreal employers who don't always post their positions on mainstream job boards.
Hello, my name is Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I am currently recruiting an Assistant Maintenance Supervisor for a manufacturing company specialized in metal processing. This position plays an important role in equipment reliability, with a strong technical focus on automation, PLCs and electrical systems.
Hello, I’m Anthony Chacon, Recruitment and Business Development Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I am currently recruiting a Product Development Engineer for a manufacturing company in the metals industry, located in Montréal-Est. This role offers the opportunity to work closely with production, quality and process teams while taking ownership of the development, industrialization and qualification of new products.
Hello, my name is Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, manufacturing and industrial positions. I'm currently recruiting for a well-established manufacturing company operating in a highly regulated environment. Due to continued growth, the company is looking for a Production Supervisor to oversee daily operations and lead its production team.
Hello, I’m Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Advisor at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I’m currently recruiting a Maintenance Supervisor for the night shift for a growing food manufacturing company. You will play a key role in coordinating maintenance activities and supporting production operations throughout your shift.
Hello, I’m Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Advisor at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I’m currently recruiting a Maintenance Relief Supervisor for a growing food manufacturing company. This position is ideal for a versatile maintenance leader who can quickly adapt to different shifts and operational needs to ensure continuity across the maintenance department.
Hello, I’m Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Advisor at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I’m currently recruiting a Maintenance Supervisor for a growing food manufacturing company. In this hands-on leadership role, you will coordinate maintenance activities, lead the maintenance team and work closely with production to ensure equipment reliability.
Hello, my name is Anthony Chacon, and I am a Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, technical and manufacturing positions. I am currently recruiting a Quality Control Laboratory Technician for a food manufacturing company located on Montreal’s South Shore. If you have a background in quality assurance and enjoy working in a hands-on manufacturing environment, this is an opportunity to contribute directly to product quality, compliance and continuous improvement.
Hello, I’m Simon Mathé, Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, manufacturing and quality positions. I am currently recruiting a Project Quality Coordinator for an international energy-sector manufacturing company. You will act as the quality lead on major industrial projects involving the manufacture of mechanical equipment. Your mandate will be to implement project-specific quality requirements, coordinate inspections and manage quality documentation with internal teams, suppliers and customers.
Hello, I’m Simon Mathé, Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering and manufacturing positions. I am currently recruiting two Electromechanics for a manufacturing company located in the Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu area. You will join a developing maintenance team and contribute to the implementation of a new evening shift. Your mandate will primarily focus on preventive maintenance, equipment troubleshooting and various technical projects.
Hello, My name is Anthony Chacon, Recruitment Advisor at FED ManuTech, specializing in engineering, manufacturing, and technical positions. I'm currently recruiting an Automation Specialist for a well-established manufacturer specializing in custom automated industrial equipment. The company delivers innovative engineering solutions to a wide range of manufacturing industries and offers a collaborative environment where technical expertise and continuous improvement are highly valued.
I'm recruiting on behalf of a well-established Québec firm in the industrial automation space, looking for its next electrical engineer. It's a stable, technical, multidisciplinary environment where the engineer has real ownership of their projects and solid support to bring them across the finish line. The team is driven by a culture of collaboration, technical excellence and respect, and the project pipeline is gaining strong momentum after a quieter phase.
Hi, I’m Ella Tiberghien, Recruitment Consultant at FED ManuTech, specializing in technical, manufacturing, and engineering positions. I’m currently looking for a Mechanical Designer for a well-established manufacturing company offering a technical and collaborative environment, hands-on projects, and strong opportunities for professional growth.
With 95,400 jobs in the manufacturing sector in 2025, Montreal ranks second among Quebec regions for manufacturing employment (Source: Socioeconomic Portrait of Montreal, Government of Quebec, May 2026). This sector continues to generate skilled positions, driven by automation, Industry 4.0 and the energy transition in a provincial market where total employment grew by 1.7% last year to reach 4,645,000 jobs (Source: ISQ, 2025 labour market review).
At Fed Manutech, our mandates cover the full technical and operational spectrum.
Production roles include the most in-demand profiles for 2025: production supervisor, team leader, production engineer and plant manager. The most active sectors include food processing, plastics, power electronics and heavy manufacturing.
According to the Fed Manutech 2025 Salary Guide, a production supervisor earns between $65K and $85–90K depending on experience, and a plant manager can exceed $150K at the senior level.
Maintenance profiles are among the rarest on the market: electromechanical technician, automation engineer, maintenance manager, maintenance director. Demand is structural, driven by aging equipment and the shift toward Industry 4.0.
The Fed Manutech 2025 salary ranges place an automation engineer between $85K and $120K+, and a maintenance manager between $80K and over $90K at the intermediate level.
Quality, EHS and laboratory / quality control roles are in high demand, particularly in aerospace, food processing and pharmaceuticals. These positions require expertise in sanitary standards, environmental regulations or quality management systems (ISO, HACCP, IATF).
Roles in research and development, industrial organization (methods, continuous improvement, processes) and technical after-sales service represent a growing share of Fed Manutech mandates. According to the 2025 Salary Guide, an R&D engineer starts between $85K and can reach over $105K at the senior level, and an engineering director exceeds $130K.
Regulatory back-office profiles round out this ecosystem: regulatory affairs officers and managers, less visible roles, but equally strategic in heavily regulated sectors.
To help you position yourself in the market, here are the salary ranges observed in Greater Montreal in 2025, drawn from the Fed Manutech Salary Guide. These figures are based on real mandates handled by our consultants and interviews conducted with professionals in the region.
| Position | Entry-level | Mid-level | Senior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Production Operator / General Labourer | 40 k$ | 50 k$ | 60 k$ |
| Production Team Leader | 55 k$ | 65 k$ | 75 k$ |
| Production Supervisor | 65 k$ | 75 k$ | 85–90 k$ |
| Production Engineer | 80 k$ | 90 k$ | +100 k$ |
| Production Director | 90 k$ | 95 k$ | +105 k$ |
| Plant Manager | 100 k$ | 125 k$ | +150 k$ |
| Electromechanical Technician | 60 k$ | 70 k$ | 80 k$ |
| Automation Engineer | 85 k$ | 100 k$ | +120 k$ |
| Maintenance Manager | 80 k$ | 85 k$ | +90 k$ |
| Maintenance Director | 90 k$ | 100 k$ | +110 k$ |
| Quality Technician | 45 k$ | 55 k$ | 65 k$ |
| Quality Engineer | 70 k$ | 90 k$ | +110 k$ |
| Quality Manager | 70 k$ | 75 k$ | +85 k$ |
| EHS Engineer | 70 k$ | 80 k$ | 90 k$ |
| EHS Manager / Director | 80 k$ | 95 k$ | +105 k$ |
| Chemist / Formulation Technician | 45 k$ | 55 k$ | +65 k$ |
| R&D Engineer | 85 k$ | 95 k$ | +105 k$ |
| Mechanical Engineer | 85 k$ | 95 k$ | 110 k$ |
| Engineering Director | 110 k$ | 120 k$ | +130 k$ |
| Continuous Improvement Engineer | 80 k$ | 95 k$ | +110 k$ |
| Director of Operations | 100 k$ | 125 k$ | +150 k$ |
| Commissioning Engineer (Field Service) | 90 k$ | 100 k$ | +110 k$ |
Source: Fed Manutech 2025 Salary Guide, Greater Montreal. Entry-Level: first experience in the role / Mid-Level: 3 to 5 years / Senior: 7+ years. Ranges vary by industry, company size and management responsibilities.
Find these figures useful? Download the Fed Manutech 2025 Salary Guide to access the full salary ranges for the manufacturing engineering sector in Greater Montreal.
Working with a specialized firm gives you access to a market you'll never see on a job board. In Quebec's engineering sector, the best positions are often filled before they're ever posted. And according to the 2024–2025 Genium360 survey, 86% of engineering employers say it's difficult to fill their open positions, which structurally puts the leverage on the side of qualified candidates.
Fed Manutech maintains an active employer network across Greater Montreal. Many of these companies give us their mandates exclusively, precisely because they don't want to manage dozens of untargeted applications.
When you apply through Fed Manutech, your profile is presented to employers who don't recruit any other way. That's access to the hidden market and it's one of the concrete advantages that no generalist job portal can offer.
Our consultants are specialized by sector: production engineering, maintenance, quality, R&D, EHS. They know your trade, your work environment, and what manufacturing employers in the region actually expect.
That means they can quickly assess whether a mandate is a real fit for your profile, and help you prepare for an interview with targeted technical arguments. You don't need to explain what HACCP means or what a preventive maintenance plan looks like. Your consultant already knows.
Fed Manutech's service doesn't stop at the match. It includes:
And all of this at no cost to the candidate. Fed Group's model is built entirely on placement success.
Numbers point you in the right direction, real cases build confidence. Here are two recent examples that show what "specialized recruitment" actually looks like on the ground in Greater Montreal.
A first temporary placement had failed after one month: the actual duties were production-related, not quality control. The job description didn't match the reality of the role.
Jérémy Dupeuble, Senior Consultant at Fed Manutech, took over the mandate with a different approach: root cause analysis of the failure, a full rewrite of the job description, setting 30/60/90-day objectives, and selection through concrete situational assessments. The result: a permanent position was created, a successful onboarding was achieved, and operational improvement proposals were put forward by the candidate within the first few weeks.
Placement timeline: 1 month. Sector: food processing, South Shore.
Read the full story – Quality Technician, South Shore →
The client had been working with another agency for months, with no results. The need wasn't just a list of skills, it touched on team culture, client relationships, and the candidate's ability to integrate into a specific manufacturing environment.
Marine, Recruitment Consultant at Fed Manutech, visited the site, met all the stakeholders involved, and filtered candidates based on behavioural signals and adaptability, not just their resumes. The candidate presented won over a client who had been skeptical from the start. The company then handed Marine two additional mandates.
Placement timeline: 1 month. Sector: woodworking manufacturing, North Shore.
Read the full story – Production Supervisor, North Shore →
The manufacturing engineering market is no longer limited to downtown Montreal. According to the OIQ, 34% of member engineers live in Montreal, and 14.5% are in Montérégie, a reflection of where plants and production sites are actually located in the region (Source: OIQ, 2024–2025 Annual Report).
Fed Manutech covers all of Greater Montreal:
If your search is geographically focused, mention it in your first conversation with your consultant. Finding a position that's accessible without sacrificing an hour of commuting every day is part of the selection criteria too.
Timelines vary depending on the complexity of the role, but urgent mandates are regularly filled within a week, and more structured placements within 3 to 4 weeks. That's significantly faster than typical public sector processes or unsolicited applications, which often stretch over several months. Our speed comes from a pool of candidates who have already been met and vetted by our consultants.
Yes. Fed Manutech handles both contract types: permanent (full-time), temporary (interim or fixed-term) and internships. Some temporary mandates lead to permanent roles, a pathway we actively encourage and have successfully implemented for several candidates in the region.
Yes, completely. Fed Group's model is built on placement success: fees are billed to the employer, only upon a successful placement. There are no charges, no commitments and nothing asked of the candidate at any point in the process.
Yes. The majority of our mandates are located outside downtown Montreal. We are active across the entire metropolitan area: South Shore (Montérégie, Brossard, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), North Shore (Laval, Laurentians, Lanaudière) and the West Island. If you're an engineer or technician looking for a position in a specific area, that's exactly what we do.
