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Hiring Movers — Real Jobs, Real Pay, Growing Fast
CNS is growing, and the crew is what makes that growth real. If you want steady pay on a T4, real work variety across the mix of jobs we run, and a company that actually promotes from the trucks — keep reading.
The honest pitch.
Here's the honest version. CNS is growing, and growing fast. Long-distance contracts to Toronto and Ottawa and routes across Canada. Commercial office moves for law firms and clinics, scheduled after their business hours. Residential work at the higher end of the market across the West Island, Westmount, and Mont-Royal. Lab and hospital relocations for McGill University Faculty of Medicine, Concordia University, and commercial research clients including LifeLabs Canada and MGI Tech Canada. And underneath all of that, the standard residential work — apartments, condos, family homes, plex walk-ups — that built this company from 2017 to now.
One thing actually makes or breaks a moving business. It isn't the software. It isn't the insurance policy. It isn't the marketing on the website you're reading right now. It's whether the crew shows up on time, knows what they're doing, and treats other people's belongings like they matter. That's it. Every five-star Google review we've earned is about the crew. Every complaint we've ever received is about the crew. Every repeat contract that came back a second or third year came back because of the crew.
That's why we're hiring carefully — and why every mover who works here gets paid properly, weekly, on a T4, with CNESST, EI, and CPP contributions on every paycheck. Not cash. Never cash. No exceptions. If cash work is what you're looking for, CNS isn't the right fit and the rest of this page is going to frustrate you. If you want the other trade — real pay, real protection, real room to grow into something beyond the trucks — keep reading.
About CNS
Who we are, in plain terms.
CNS Logistics has operated out of Saint-Laurent since 2017. We're a woman-owned business with a president who runs day-to-day operations — small enough that the people making decisions are in the same building as the trucks, big enough that the fleet is 12 GPS-tracked vehicles and the insurance file is five million dollars with Intact.
The numbers, for reference. Roughly 7,120 completed moves. More than 2,450 long-distance runs. NIR licensed with Quebec's Office de la protection du consommateur. A 4.6 out of 5 on Google across 260+ verified reviews. Bilingual French and English crews on every job — because most of our clients switch between the two languages inside a single conversation, and a crew that can't follow along slows the whole move down.
The work ranges widely. Standard residential across Montreal, Laval, the South Shore, the North Shore, and the West Island. Long-distance runs to Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec City, and farther. After-hours commercial office relocations for law firms and clinics. Laboratory relocations for the McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Concordia University. HQ is 4590 Henri Bourassa Blvd W in Saint-Laurent — directly inside Montreal's Technoparc biotech corridor, fifteen minutes from downtown on the A-40.
The work
What the work actually looks like
- Standard residential — most weeks include apartments in the Plateau, condos in Griffintown, family homes in Laval or Brossard, and plex walk-ups across Rosemont, Villeray, and Hochelaga. Load, pack, wrap, protect, drive, unload. Communicate with clients in French or English. This is the base of the business and the core of the work.
- Long-distance runs — two or three days on the road at a stretch. Montreal to Toronto or Ottawa. Longer hauls to Halifax, Quebec City, Calgary, Vancouver. GPS-tracked routes, bilingual dispatch on the phone when you need it, fixed delivery windows, and paid per the route structure.
- Commercial and law firm — office relocations scheduled after business hours so the client reopens the next morning. Furniture assembly and disassembly, file boxes handled with chain-of-custody on the legal work, tight move-in windows. Crew rotations planned around realistic sleep and realistic driving limits.
- Clinics and institutional — multi-phase moves inside teaching hospitals, diagnostic clinics, and university departments. Coordination with building-access teams, protective flooring, and equipment-handling protocols specific to each institution. Slower pace than residential, more documentation, more responsibility on each step.
- Lab, medical, and specialty — McGill research equipment, LifeLabs Canada site moves, MGI Tech Canada deliveries, cryogenic freezers, medical imaging units, pharmaceutical cleanroom items. This work requires specialty training and pays above the base rate. Not everyone qualifies immediately — you earn into it.
- Residential at the higher end — estate homes across the West Island, Westmount, Mont-Royal, and Hampstead; antiques and heritage furniture; pianos; pool tables; fine art. Clients with high standards, which means the crew's reputation on any given day matters more to the company than the invoice on that one job.
What you get
What you actually get, in your bank account and in your career.
Two tracks in parallel — the money and the legal mechanics of legitimate employment, plus a real progression inside the company for the people who stick with it.
The money and the basics
- ›Competitive hourly rate plus overtime, paid weekly by direct deposit every Friday. The specific rate depends on your experience, your licence class, and your shift availability — discussed at the interview, not published on a public page.
- ›T4 federal slip at year-end, Relevé 1 for Quebec provincial taxes. CNESST, EI, and CPP contributions deducted and remitted on every paycheck. It's the mechanics of legitimate employment — it matters the day something goes wrong on a job site.
- ›CNESST workers' compensation covers you from day one on the clock. Pull something on a stair carry, a dolly tips, something heavy lands wrong — the claim is covered. You see a doctor, you're paid while you recover, you don't lose the rent over an injury.
- ›EI and CPP contributions on every paycheck build your federal employment record. That's what a bank looks at for a car loan or a mortgage, and what a landlord asks for when you apply for an apartment. Cash jobs give you none of that.
- ›Paid vacation accrued against the hours you actually work. You bank time as you go, you use it when you want to with reasonable scheduling notice, and it's paid out if you ever leave the company.
- ›Year-round schedule — we don't vanish in winter. From November through February the volume shifts from residential toward commercial, institutional, and laboratory work, but the hours stay steady. You don't need a summer-season job to supplement.
Room to grow
- ›You start as a mover on the crew. If you're reliable, physically capable, and you treat the job as real work, within six to twelve months you're running jobs as a lead technician — crew chief on complex moves, setting the pace, handling the client, calling the shots on tricky building access.
- ›Lead technicians who develop client-facing skill move into moving consultant roles — the in-home estimate, the phone quote, the client coordination from booking through delivery. Most of our current moving consultants came up through the trucks. They know what a third-floor plex move actually takes because they spent years doing them.
- ›Lead technicians who develop operational strength move into commercial project manager roles — multi-phase office relocations, lab moves, institutional contracts, multi-crew coordination. The majority of our commercial project managers started as movers. That progression isn't a slogan on a recruitment page — it's how CNS actually staffs its growth.
- ›Specialty training tracks open up as you earn them. Piano, pool table, laboratory and medical equipment, pharmaceutical cleanroom, fine art and museum collections. Every track raises your rate and opens routes other crews can't take. Some movers build a specialty reputation and stay on the trucks by choice for years.
- ›When CNS lands bigger contracts, the roles that open up inside the company go to people who earned them on the trucks first. Hiring outside for senior positions doesn't build the kind of crew we want, so we don't do it unless the role genuinely requires external expertise we don't already have inside.
The requirements
What we need from you
- Legal right to work in Canada — citizen, permanent resident, or a valid work permit. No exceptions, and we verify documentation at the interview.
- You can lift 50+ pounds over a full shift and handle multi-flight stairs without running out of gas halfway through. This isn't a desk job — the physical work is real, especially on the Montreal plex routes with exterior staircases.
- You show up on time, every time. The crew relies on each other. A mover who's late makes everyone else late and damages the client relationship before the job even starts.
- French or English fluent — bilingual helps because most clients switch between the two inside a single conversation. Not native — fluent. Enough to confirm an inventory, walk a building, and explain a next step without stalling.
- Class 5 driver's licence at a minimum. Class 3 is strongly preferred and raises your starting rate because it unlocks more of the fleet. Class 1 unlocks even more of it.
- Clean driving abstract for any truck-operation role. Recent infractions or licence issues get flagged at the interview — we'd rather know up front than discover the problem two weeks into the job.
- Previous moving, warehouse, construction, or trades experience is an asset, not a dealbreaker. We train from scratch. What matters more is whether you're the kind of person who cares about doing the job properly and shows up ready to work.
How we pay
The pay structure, plainly.
Competitive hourly rate plus overtime, paid weekly by direct deposit every Friday. The specific rate depends on your experience, your driver's licence class, and the shifts you're available to work — specifics get discussed at the interview, not on a public job posting. Lead technicians and crew with specialty experience (piano, laboratory, cleanroom, fine art) earn above the base rate. Overtime is paid at the rate required by Quebec labour standards — time-and-a-half beyond the weekly threshold. All pay is on T4. Not cash. Ever. The trade-off for a T4 pay structure is a cleaner employment record than any cash gig can build — a record that a bank, a landlord, or a credit application actually cares about the day you need one.
Apply now
Your application
Fill out the form below. Attach a resume if you have one — it's not required. We review every application that comes through, and if you're a fit we'll reach out within five business days to schedule a phone screen. The phone screen is a twenty-minute conversation, not a test.
FAQ
Questions we hear from applicants
Do you pay cash?
No. Every mover on our crew is on T4 with weekly direct deposit, and every paycheck has CNESST workers' compensation, EI, and CPP contributions remitted. We understand why cash work can sound appealing — no tax deduction at the time, money in hand the same day, a simpler-looking arrangement on the surface. The trade-off is zero employment record, zero legal protection if you get hurt on a stair carry or a parking-lot slip, no unemployment coverage between contracts, and nothing to show a landlord or a bank when you need to prove you have income. If that's the trade you want, CNS is not the right fit, and the rest of this page is going to frustrate you. If you want the other trade — real pay, real protection, real room to grow — keep reading and fill out the form at the bottom of the page.
What's the starting hourly rate?
Discussed at the interview, not published on a public page. The reason is simple — rates depend on your experience, your driver's licence class, and the shifts you're available for, and those variables differ enough that a headline number would either oversell or undersell every individual applicant who reads it. What we'll tell you publicly is this: the rate is competitive with the broader Montreal moving market, overtime is paid at the Quebec-standard time-and-a-half beyond the weekly threshold, and lead technicians or crew with specialty experience (piano, laboratory, cleanroom, fine art) earn above the base rate. Bring your expectations and your minimum threshold to the interview and we'll have a real conversation about the number that works for both sides.
Do I need moving experience?
Preferred but not required. If you have moving, warehouse, construction, or trades background, tell us in the application — it genuinely matters and it affects the starting rate we can offer you. If you don't have any of those, we train from scratch. What we look for first is reliability, physical capacity, and willingness to learn the specialty work as it gets offered to you. Many of the people currently running our crews as lead technicians and managing our commercial contracts as project managers came to CNS with zero moving experience and grew into the trade here. That progression is real, not a recruitment-page line. A reliable rookie who shows up on time beats an experienced mover who doesn't, every single time.
Do I need to speak French?
You need fluent French or fluent English. Bilingual is a real advantage because most of our clients switch between both languages inside a single conversation — especially institutional clients like McGill and Concordia, where the researcher talking to you might be bilingual-by-necessity rather than bilingual-by-preference. We don't require grammatically perfect second-language speech — we require the functional ability to confirm an inventory, walk through a building, and explain a next step without stalling. If you're fully comfortable in one language and you can get by in the other, say so in the application and we'll evaluate fit at the phone screen stage.
What hours do you run?
Our dispatch window runs Monday and Thursday 6am to 6pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 5am to 6pm, Saturday 5am to 5pm, and Sunday 9am to 2pm. Most shifts start early because Montreal traffic punishes anyone trying to load at 9am and because clients want a full productive day at the destination. We schedule against realistic availability — if you have school, kids, another job, a health consideration, whatever it is, tell us in the application. We'd rather build a crew that sticks than over-promise a schedule that breaks two weeks in. On-call shifts exist for applicants who want them. Full-time and part-time rotations both exist. What we need from you is honesty about availability at the start.
What happens after I apply?
We review every application that comes in through the form. If you look like a fit, we reach out within five business days to schedule a phone screen — that's a twenty-minute conversation about your experience, your availability, and your expectations on both sides. If the phone call goes well, we bring you in for an in-person meeting at our Saint-Laurent HQ at 4590 Henri Bourassa Blvd W. Bring valid photo ID, your SIN document, your driver's licence, and your driving abstract if we've discussed a truck-operation role on the phone. Offers are made after the in-person, and first shifts are usually within one to two weeks of signing the paperwork. If you haven't heard from us within five business days of applying, it's fine to call (514) 416-9610 and reference your application.
Questions before you apply?
Call (514) 416-9610 and ask for the hiring team. We answer during business hours — Monday and Thursday 6am to 6pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 5am to 6pm, Saturday 5am to 5pm. Email info@cnslogistics.ca if that's easier. HQ is 4590 Henri Bourassa Blvd W in Saint-Laurent, inside Montreal's Technoparc biotech corridor, fifteen minutes from downtown on the A-40.
HQ: 4590 Henri Bourassa Blvd W, Saint-Laurent, Montreal, QC H4L 0A6, Canada
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