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Home Centre Manager Trainee
@ Default Co-op Brand
Souris, Manitoba
Overview
Pembina Co-op is hiring a Home Centre Manager Trainee for its Manitoba locations, starting with training at the Souris Home Centre. The role is a fast track to managing a store, covering sales, merchandising, inventory and team coaching alongside experienced managers. Benefits include paid sick and vacation time, life insurance, disability coverage, health and dental, and a pension plan.
Responsibilities:
- Learn to lead and run a home centre store
- Learn sales, expenses, margins and store performance
- Build, coach and motivate a team
- Manage merchandising, inventory control and store standards
- Promote safety and represent the co-op in the community
Requirements summary:
- Hands-on experience in building materials or hardware
- Solid people skills and an approachable personality
- Strong communication, organization and time management
- Willingness to learn and take on challenges
- Willingness to relocate to Manitoba locations
- Retail leadership experience is an asset
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-02
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-16
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Business operations |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | Store |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Flexible hours, Retirement plan, Paid training |
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Default Co-op Brand
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 34 |
Pembina Co-op is hiring a Home Centre Manager Trainee, for their locations across MB.
We’re Hiring: Home Centre Manager Trainee!
Do you love working with people? Enjoy learning new things? Dream of leading your own team someday? If you’re nodding your head, keep reading, because this opportunity is MADE for YOU!
Pembina Co-op is looking for a Home Centre Manager Trainee who’s ready to jump in, learn tons, and grow into a future Home Centre Manager. No two days will be the same and that’s exactly what makes it awesome!
Training will take place at our Home Centre location in Souris, MB. Following the training period and aligned with succession planning, the position of Home Centre Manager could be at any of our Home Centre locations in Souris, Pilot Mound, St. Leon, St. Claude or Oakbank.
Who We Are:
At Pembina Co-op, our vision is simple: “To positively impact our communities” and we are guided by these four core values:
- People – Respect for others in every action and decision.
- Integrity – Doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
- Excellence – Striving to do what is best, not just what is easy.
- Responsibility – Owning our actions and their impact.
If this sounds like your kind of workplace, you’re already off to a great start!
What the Trainee Program Looks Like:
Think of this role as your fast track to becoming a Home Centre Manager and running your own store! You’ll work closely with experienced managers, learn the ins and outs of our operation, and get involved in real leadership responsibilities right from day one.
What You’ll Be Doing:
Every day will bring something different, and you will get to:
- Lead and learn: Learn what it means to be a leader and how to run your own store.
- Understand the business: Learn about sales, expenses, margins, and what makes a store thrive.
- Connect with your community: Build relationships and represent Pembina Co-op with pride.
- Support your team: Learn how to build, coach, and motivate a team so that you are someone that people look up to.
- Keep things running smoothly: Merchandising, inventory control, store standards – you’ll learn it all.
- Promote safety: Make sure your team has a safe and supportive place to work.
- Working with great mentors: Work side by side with experienced leaders to build the confidence and skills needed to eventually manage your own store!
What We’re Looking For:
You’ll be a great fit if you have:
- Real life experience in building materials and/or hardware.
- Some retail leadership experience (not a deal breaker).
- Solid people skills and a friendly, outgoing, and approachable personality
- Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills.
- A positive, anything is possible attitude.
- Honest, reliable, and put your best into everything that you do.
- A willingness to learn, grow, and take on challenges.
- A genuine desire to re-locate where there is opportunity — we have 5 locations in Souris, Oakbank, Pilot Mound, St. Leon and St. Claude — this could be training for any one of those locations!!
Why You’ll Love Working Here:
- Great Work-Life Balance: Paid sick and vacation time, flexible and varied schedule.
- Terrific Financial Perks: Great wages and benefits package (life insurance, short/long term disability, health and dental, and pension plan).
- Growth Built In: You’ll get training, learning opportunities, and a clear path to a leadership role.
- A workplace That Feels Like Home: At Pembina Co-op, we work to create an environment that allows everyone to bring their whole selves to work.
- WE DON’T JUST OFFER JOBS, WE OFFER FUTURES!
Ready To Apply? Let’s Go!
To Apply, please send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] by October 30, 2026 or contact us for more information.
Thanks to everyone who applies – we truly appreciate it! Only those selected for the next stage will be contacted.
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