Furniture Manufacturing Supervisors
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Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate personnel who manufacture wooden furniture and accessories. They work for wood product manufacturers.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Supervise, coordinate, and plan the activities of personnel who manufacture wooden furniture and accessories.
- Establish work methods to meet deadlines and coordinate work with other sections.
- Order equipment and supplies.
- Resolve work-related problems and recommend measures to increase productivity.
- Manage staff and ensure their training.
- Ensure compliance with occupational safety standards.
- Draft reports.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $19.95
- Median
- $25.00
- Maximum
- $31.45
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Limited
Good
Very good
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
700
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 22% Female
- 78% Male
Not available.
- 22% Female
- 78% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$52,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33785% of jobs
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NAICS 5413, 54143% of jobs
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NAICS 3212% of jobs
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NAICS 3272% of jobs
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NAICS 3392% of jobs
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Others6% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33785% of jobs
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NAICS 5413, 54143% of jobs
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NAICS 3212% of jobs
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NAICS 3272% of jobs
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NAICS 3392% of jobs
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Others6% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in techniques du meuble et d'ébénisterie (Menuiserie architecturale)
Code : 233BB
Placement rate: 81.8%
18.2% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Experience as a Furniture and Accessory Assembler, Woodworking Machine Operator, Cabinetmaker or Furniture Refinisher is usually required.
- Membership in the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec (OTPQ [Quebec Order of Professional Technologists]) and obtaining the title of professional technologist is an asset.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Coordination
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Judgment and decision-making
- Information processing
- Result evaluation
- Social perception
- Written expression
- Persuasion
- Solving complex problems
- Quality control analysis
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Learning strategies
- Monitoring operations
- Operation analysis
- Systems evaluation
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Speech recognition
- Inductive reasoning
- Written expression
- Classification
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Perception speed
- Distance vision
- Selective attention
- Time sharing
- Processing flexibility
- Hand-arm stability
Knowledge and attributes
- Critical thinking
- Leadership
- Focussed on results
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to work in a team
- Capacity to delegate
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Commitment
- Rigour
- Sense of initiative
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Make, build, install
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 92022
Supervisors, furniture and fixtures manufacturing
Job titles
- Furniture finishing foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Furniture assembly foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Cabinet assembler and wood furniture maker foreman/woman
- Woodworking machine operators foreman/woman
- Furniture and fixtures manufacturing supervisor
- Desk assembly foreman/woman
- Chair assembly foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Machining foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Decorating foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Mattress manufacturing foreman/woman
- Laminating foreman/woman
- Gluing foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Veneering foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Metal furniture assembly foreman/woman
- Buffing and lacquering foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Veneering shop foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Finishing room foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Woodworking machine department foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Furniture components sanding department foreman/woman
- Furniture gluers foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Wood-machining quality-control inspectors foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Furniture finishers foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Wood sanders foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Planers, turners, shapers and related wood-machining workers foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Wood sawing foreman/woman (except sawmill)
- Wood machining workers foreman/woman - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Furniture inspectors foreman/woman
- Woodworking machine operators supervisor - furniture and fixtures manufacturing
- Furniture finishers supervisor
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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