Metal Products Manufacturing Supervisors
Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate personnel who manufacture, assemble, and inspect metal parts (aircraft, bodies, auto parts, heating and air conditioning equipment, etc.). They work in manufacturing plants in various sectors.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Odours
- Hazardous workplaces
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
Main tasks
- Supervise, coordinate, and plan the activities of personnel who manufacture, assemble, and inspect metal parts.
- 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.
- Adjust machinery and equipment, as required.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $25.00
- Median
- $36.00
- Maximum
- $48.08
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
800
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 11.8% Female
- 88.2% Male
Not available.
- 11.8% Female
- 88.2% 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
$80,000
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 336451% of jobs
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NAICS 33215% of jobs
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NAICS 3337% of jobs
-
NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]7% of jobs
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NAICS 5413, 54144% of jobs
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Others16% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 336451% of jobs
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NAICS 33215% of jobs
-
NAICS 3337% of jobs
-
NAICS 336 [excluding 3364]7% of jobs
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NAICS 5413, 54144% of jobs
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Others16% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
College
DCS in technologie du génie des matériaux composites
Code : 241C0
Placement rate: 50%
50% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in technologie du génie industriel
Code : 235B0
Placement rate: 41.3%
58.7% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- Several years of experience as an Assembler or Auditor, usually with the same company, are usually required.
- Membership in the Ordre des technologues professionnels du Québec (OTPQ [Quebec Order of Professional Technologists]) 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
- Focussed on results
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Knowledge of personnel and human resource management
- Capacity to adapt
- Capacity to work in a team
- Commitment
- Respect standards and regulations
- Availability
- Open-mindedness
- Knowledge of mechanics
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 92023
Supervisors, other mechanical and metal products manufacturing
Job titles
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- Aircraft assembly supervisor
- Engine testing foreman/woman (except aircraft)
- Metal products inspection and testing foreman/woman
- Farm machinery inspection foreman/woman
- Aircraft assembly inspection foreman/woman
- Aircraft hydraulic equipment installation foreman/woman
- Galvanizing foreman/woman
- Electroplating foreman/woman
- Engine accessories assembly foreman/woman (except aircraft)
- Aircraft assembly foreman/woman
- Hoisting-and-lifting equipment assembly foreman/woman
- Motor home assembly foreman/woman
- Tractor-trailer assembly foreman/woman
- Light agricultural and farm equipment assembly foreman/woman
- Helicopter assembly foreman/woman
- Power transmission assembly foreman/woman
- House trailer assembly foreman/woman
- Industrial truck assembly foreman/woman
- Ball and roller-bearings assembly foreman/woman
- Vending machine assembly foreman/woman
- Aircraft fuselage assembly foreman/woman
- Mobile home assembly foreman/woman
- Light agricultural machinery assembly foreman/woman
- Light construction machinery assembly foreman/woman
- Light industrial, farm and construction machinery assembly foreman/woman
- Agricultural equipment assembly foreman/woman
- Printing equipment assembly foreman/woman
- Material-handling equipment assembly foreman/woman
- Light material-handling equipment assembly foreman/woman
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- Outboard motor assembly foreman/woman
- Rototiller assembly foreman/woman
- Snowmobile assembly foreman/woman
- Small engine assembly foreman/woman
- Trailer assembly foreman/woman
- Truck trailer assembly foreman/woman
- Spacecraft subassembly foreman/woman
- Snowblower tractor assembly foreman/woman
- Garden tractor assembly foreman/woman
- Metal buffing foreman/woman
- Aircraft rigging foreman/woman
- Paint department foreman/woman - heavy truck, bus and trailer manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - machinery manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - heavy equipment manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - railway rolling stock manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - shipbuilding
- Paint department foreman/woman - aircraft manufacturing
- Paint department foreman/woman - transport equipment manufacturing (except motor vehicles)
- Paint department foreman/woman - metal products manufacturing
- Engine rebuilding shop foreman/woman (except aircraft)
- Transmission-rebuilding shop foreman/woman
- Forging-machine operator foreman/woman
- Metalworking machine operators foreman/woman
- Forge shop foreman/woman - metal products manufacturing
- Forgers foreman/woman - metal products manufacturing
- Aircraft parts etching foreman/woman
- Metal buffers foreman/woman
- Aircraft painter foreman/woman
- Shipyard painter foreman/woman
- Shipbuilding supervisor
- Electroplating supervisor
- Engine assembly supervisor (except aircraft)
- Tractor-trailer assembly supervisor
- Helicopter assembly supervisor
- Mobile home assembly supervisor
- Snowmobile assembly supervisor
- Small engine assembly supervisor
- Truck trailer assembly supervisor
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
Last update: January 29, 2026
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