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Supervisor Fleet Management Garage-CA
@ CN
Concord, Ontario
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Overview
CN is hiring a full-time Supervisor, Fleet Management Garage in Canada to plan and coordinate garage operations, control shop labour and materials, and keep vehicles serviced at minimum cost and downtime. The role manages a unionized workforce, budgets and supplier negotiations, and compliance with safety and environmental rules. It requires night shifts and weekends when needed, plus 20 to 40% travel.
Responsibilities:
- Plan shop staffing, space and workload requirements
- Monitor Fleetwave asset management system and maintenance schedules
- Develop and control garage operating budget and supplier discounts
- Train and evaluate unionized shop staff
- Ensure safety, environmental and fleet regulatory compliance
Requirements summary:
- 5+ years automotive or truck and coach repair experience
- DEP as automotive or truck and coach mechanic, or equivalent
- Valid driver's licence
- Knowledge of CAW 5.1 and Canada Labour Code (asset)
- Knowledge of fleet management systems (asset)
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- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-15
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-15
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Maintenance & repair |
| Experience | 5+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | overnight |
| Travel | ground: moderate |
| Work setting | Plant or factory, Outdoors, Office |
| Position | Sitting and standing |
| Physical demands | physical moderate · computer moderate |
| Driver’s licence | required |
| Education | Trade certificate (required) |
| Fields of study | automotive mechanics, truck and coach mechanics |
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Downtown Montreal |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 152 |
Job description
Job Summary
The Incumbent is responsible for planning and coordinating the overall garage operation to effectively control the utilization of shop labour and material. The incumbent develops and monitors targets and standards ensuring optimum productivity and quality levels. The role controls and monitors in-house and commercial garage performance ensuring optimum vehicle servicing at minimum cost, minimum downtime with utmost customer satisfaction and within company guidelines, policies and regulatory requirements. The incumbent ensures timely servicing and availability of critical equipment and protects CN's daily operations.
Main Responsibilities
Establish, Plan, Coordinate and Monitor Shop and Staff Requirements
The incumbent must be available to work night shifts and weekends when necessary. The role requires occasional travel (20 to 40%). The incumbent needs to walk, climb and is exposed to elements and operating standards. The role is partially performed in the shop and outdoors in various types of weather and environmental conditions such as fumes, Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) controlled substances.
Experience
Automotive
The Incumbent is responsible for planning and coordinating the overall garage operation to effectively control the utilization of shop labour and material. The incumbent develops and monitors targets and standards ensuring optimum productivity and quality levels. The role controls and monitors in-house and commercial garage performance ensuring optimum vehicle servicing at minimum cost, minimum downtime with utmost customer satisfaction and within company guidelines, policies and regulatory requirements. The incumbent ensures timely servicing and availability of critical equipment and protects CN's daily operations.
Main Responsibilities
Establish, Plan, Coordinate and Monitor Shop and Staff Requirements
- Ensure maximum productivity and utilization of repair facilities and equipment
- Determine specific staffing, shop space and workload requirements
- Coordinate repair and maintenance programs by equitable distribution of workload
- Ensure facilities are maintained to levels which meet labour and building code requirements
- Maintain and update tools and equipment used in maintenance of the fleet
- Ensure proper documentation of facilities and equipment are kept up to date
- Develop and implement maintenance schedules and time standards for equipment and maintain repair parts inventory
- Monitor quality and timeliness of asset management system updates
- Interact with customers and vendors to ensure timely repairs and maintenance are carried out
- Maintain adequate level of inventory part for size and make-up of the fleet
- Schedule maintenance to maximize the efficient utilization of the fleet (minimize downtime)
- Improve productivity of shop operations and standards of maintenance
- Review productivity reports set time standards and monitor through exception reporting and correct actions
- Review repair and maintenance practises, and make recommendations to improve methods
- Monitor and control monthly expenditures
- Establish best discounts and quality with the supplier network to optimize cost of labour and materials
- Review historic expenditures and forecasts to develop operating budget
- Track ongoing expenses, and take corrective action were needed to ensure expenditures are in line with company policy and budgetary constraints
- Negotiate discounts and quality service levels with supplier network
- Report ongoing budget status, investigate and explain budget variances
- Maintain a well-trained and motivated unionized workforce at levels to meet current and future work requirements
- Assess individual performance as part of succession planning strategy
- Assess workload requirements to determine shift and staffing requirements
- Identify training and developmental needs
- Provide on the job and classroom training in repair and maintenance procedures in line with the fleet profile and technological advancement
- Evaluate staff performance to determine potential candidates for future advancement
- Promote and ensure compliance in safety, accident prevention, environmental, National Safety Code, Canada Labour Code, and respective provincial fleet safety standards
- Identify potential unsafe practices, take immediate remedial action and document safety violations
- Hold ongoing Health and Safety Committee meetings
- Ensure committee participation and follow up on recommendations
- Perform safety audits to ensure zero tolerance policy is followed
- Perform and record safety observations in accordance with CN guidelines
- Ensure environmental policy is adhered to and proper documentation is completed
- Understand and follow Canada Labour Code Guidelines
- Ensure vehicle fleet is maintained to all Federal and Provincial safety standards and proper documentation is completed
- Ensure compliance with National Safety Code for the vehicle fleet and staff
The incumbent must be available to work night shifts and weekends when necessary. The role requires occasional travel (20 to 40%). The incumbent needs to walk, climb and is exposed to elements and operating standards. The role is partially performed in the shop and outdoors in various types of weather and environmental conditions such as fumes, Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) controlled substances.
Experience
Automotive
- Minimum 5 years of experience in the automotive/truck and coach repair trades
- Candidates with an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered.
- Professional Education Diploma (DEP) as automotive or truck and coach mechanic
- Must hold a valid driver's license
- Candidates with equivalent practical experience, education, or training will be considered.
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- Knowledge of fleet operational requirements
- Working knowledge of the CAW 5.1 collective agreement, Canada Labour Code, Federal and Provincial regulations concerning motor vehicles
- Knowledge of stock inventory procedures and controls
- Short- and medium-range planning abilities
- Knowledge of fleet management's mainframe computer system*
- Knowledge CN's safety and environmental policies*
- Any requirement marked with (*) will be considered an asset (not mandatory).
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