Manufacturing Managers
Job description
These individuals manage the activities of operating or production services. They work in manufacturing plants.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Noise
Main tasks
- Plan, direct, control, and evaluate activities or services.
- Develop and implement schedules and programs to ensure production targets are met.
- Prepare and manage budgets for factories or production departments.
- Plan and carry out changes to the production system and work methods.
- Prepare equipment maintenance schedules; recommend and supervise machine replacement.
- Hire, train, and supervise staff, as required.
- Maintain inventory of raw materials and finished goods, as required.
- Provide quality control and draft production reports, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $30.77
- Median
- $50.00
- Maximum
- $88.94
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
21,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 24% Female
- 76% Male
Not available.
- 24% Female
- 76% 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
$84,000
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 311, 31217% of jobs
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NAICS 3329% of jobs
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NAICS 3397% of jobs
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NAICS 3267% of jobs
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NAICS 3337% of jobs
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Others53% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 311, 31217% of jobs
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NAICS 3329% of jobs
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NAICS 3397% of jobs
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NAICS 3267% of jobs
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NAICS 3337% of jobs
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Others53% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Also required
- Five to ten years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing facility.
Sometimes required
- A university or college education in Engineering or Business Administration is usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Time management
- Data collection
- Judgment and decision-making
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Critical thought
- Coordination
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Human resource management
- Operation analysis
- Information processing
- System analysis
- Solving complex problems
- Learning strategies
- Material resource management
- Active learning
- Financial resource management
- Social perception
- Persuasion
- Systems evaluation
- Written expression
- Mathematics
- Negotiation
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Written comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Speech clarity
- Idea generation
- Speech recognition
- Classification
- Written expression
- Near vision
- Basic numeracy
- Originality
- Mathematical reasoning
- Selective attention
- Perception speed
- Processing flexibility
- Distance vision
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Autonomy
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Strategic sense
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Sense of initiative
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
Official name of the NOC 90010
Manufacturing managers
Job titles
- Mill manager
- Production chief
- Production planning coordinator
- Production planner
- Mill superintendent
- Production senior coordinator
- Plant assistant manager
- Field director - manufacturing
- Senior plant manager
- Steel mill manager
- Manufacturing company manager
- Winery manager
- Manufacturing industry manager
- Motor vehicle assembly plant manager
- Printing plant manager
- Manufacturing plant manager
- Packaging manufacturing plant manager
- Rubber products-manufacturing plant manager
- Plastic products-manufacturing plant manager
- Textile spinning-mill manager
- Pickling plant manager
- Paper mill manager
- Pulp and paper mill manager
- Tire plant manager
- Textile mill manager
- Fish-processing plant manager
- Dairy plant manager
- Cannery manager
- Distillery manager
- Furniture factory manager
- Clothing factory manager
- Foundry manager
- Manufacturing quality assurance director
- Manufacturing operations manager
- Operations manager - public utilities
- Printing manager
- Product line manager
- Manufacturing manager
- Container manufacturing manager
- Metal works fabrication manager
- Automobile interior fittings production manager
- Railway car production manager
- Logistics manager - manufacturing
- Production planning manager
- Production manager - manufacturing
- Production manager - printing
- Food production manager
- Food and beverage production manager
- Automobile production manager
- Railway rolling stock production manager
- Industrial and manufacturing production manager
- Food-processing plant manager
- Flour mill manager
- Lumber mill manager
- Director of operations - manufacturing
- Production operations manager
- Quality-control services manager
- Tool production department manager
- Business manager - manufacturing
- Brewmaster
- Enologist
- Manufacturing plant superintendent
- Production superintendent
- Factory superintendent
- Refinery superintendent
- Assistant vice-president – goods production, utilities and transport
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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