As one of the top economic centers in Canada, Kitchener, Ontario is home to 256,885 people as of the 2021 Canadian Census. This mid-sized city in the Waterloo region has its roots in the manufacturing sector and still relies heavily on this tradition, with a total of 50,000 people making products in the region! Increasingly, Kitchener is also becoming an innovative technology hub and consistently places in the top five Canadian cities for economic performance. All of these characteristics make Kitchener an ideal place to seek gainful employment in a variety of industries. If you’re looking for a job in Kitchener, Liberty Staffing can help!
Kitchener is growing rapidly both in terms of GDP and population. On average, the Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo census metropolitan area added more than 10,000 people per year over the last five years, rising from a population of 523,894 in 2016 to 575,847 as of 2021—more than double the growth of the city of Toronto! Additionally, in 2021, the Kitchener GDP was expected to increase by 2.4 percent over the previous year.
Welders/Fitters
Day shifts |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Associates will be working as a Welder-Fitter on structural steel on small and industrial scales. Associates will follow blueprints, drawings, and specifications to meet the requirements of the customers. |
General Labour (Unboxing)
Day shifts |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Will be working outdoors. Employees will be removing boxes of baked goods from skids, openings and emptying the contents, and breaking down the boxes, weighing or washing out empty bins. Boxes can weigh from 5lbs to 50lbs. Work is repetitive and can be messy. |
Packagers
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Working with tools. Must be comfortable working around loud machines. |
Assembly/Pre Painters
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Will be using hand tools, and using blueprints. Must be comfortable reading blueprints and following instructions. |
Machine Operators
Day shift |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Qualifications: Will be operating a plastic injection moulding machine. Taking parts out of machine, trimming excess plastic and checking for quality. Some cleaning duties are also required. Will be building hardware kits (screw packs) and staging parts for packaging. |
Food Packagers Full time ongoing
Located on a bus route. Must be able to work in refrigerated environment. |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Will be working on the production line doing a variety of duties, heavier jobs include feeding raw food products (chicken, fish, cheese and pork) into machines or skidding boxes at the end of the line, breading, sorting of raw and frozen food products, packaging, labelling and making boxes. |
Electronic Assemblers
Full time ongoing
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Assembling and soldering electronic components onto printed circuit boards, inspecting finished products to ensure they meet the quality standards, test assemblies to prescribed standards, packaging and storing products once complete. |
Shrink Line Associates
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Will be shrink wrapping and packaging for shipments. May be lifting up to 40lbs repetitively. |
Warehouse Workers
$19 - $19.50/hour |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Manual material handling. Lifting up to 50lbs boxes on a continuous basis. Very busy warehouse: training on shipping and receiving items, unpacking, packing boxes, and providing material to the line. |
Forklift/General Labour Kitchener, Ontario
8:30am - 5pm |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Unloading skids off the trucks from incoming shipments, loading skids onto trucks for outgoing shipments as well as moving skids around in the warehouse. May be required to do other tasks throughout the day. Picking and packaging orders to be shipped, general clean up, assisting other workers, etc. Qualifications: Forklift experience required. Ability to use hand tools. |
Forklift Driver/General Labour
$22/hour |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Operating material handling equipment. Unloading, staging, labelling, and putting inbound product away. Picking, staging, labelling and loading outbound orders. Assisting with inventory activities within the distribution center. Performing general housekeeping activities. Verifies shipping and/or receiving accuracy utilizing current system. Assists management in meeting corporate and departmental goals and objectives. Supports corporate policies and departmental policies. Supports EMS/QMS policies and procedures. Supports health and safety policies. |
Forklift Operators
Full time ongoing Monday - Thursday 7am - 4:30pm & Friday 7am - 11am |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Could be placed in a Press, Assembly or Receiving Department, operating a propane counterbalance forklift, replacing parts of bins, loading and unloading coilers and dies from press machine, receiving all products entering the facility including verifying the actual product against packaging slips. |
Lumper/Unloading
8am - 4pm
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011 Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: You will be picking orders in the warehouse and may be unloading trucks full of boxed vinyl/ aluminum siding. Lifting 40-50lbs repetitively. |
Racking/Unracking
Part time |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Putting parts on a rack and removing them once they are painted, hanging parts, packaging, racking/unracking. Parts will weigh between 10-20lbs. |
Envelope Stuffers Requires car - not on a bus route. |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Working in either bindery or kitting department of a custom printing company, inserting folded cards into envelope sleeves, using shrink wrap, bundling materials, counting and packaging boxes, could be assembling skids as required, lifting up to 35lbs occasionally. |
Plastic Injection Moulders
Full time ongoing Days, afternoons Located on a bus route. |
Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Removing parts from machine, assembling parts, trimming excess plastic and checking for quality, other duties as assigned such as assembly, clean-up, etc. |
General Labour Kitchener, Ontario
Day or afternoon shifts
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Taking parts out of boxes to put into containers and scanning printed bar codes to be shipped out. Notes about position: work be able to work in a face paced environment to meet daily quota, must be wearing safety vest and safety shoes at all times, schedule can not be changed/switched. |
Packaging/Loading Elmira, Ontario
$19.25/hour
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Call/Text: 519-742-2011
Email: kitchenerrecruiting@libertystaffing.ca
Visit: 625 King Street East, Suite 2A |
Job Duties: Pile finished product on skid according to pattern on fact sheet. Attach label to bundles at end of conveyor belt as required. Perform quality checks to ensure quality and quantity including proper seals; legible and accurate date codes, bag weight checks and empty packaging availability according to schedule. Continually check product for cross-contamination, colour, quality, size and shape. Transport skid to the wrapper and wrap according to fact sheet. Perform product and consumables changeover including air blow entire system to avoid contamination, change screens, change rework fibre bags, weigh, record and wrap. Set up and change over entire line for next order; program correct bin to line; and program line for correct weight. Change consumables (shrink wrap, skid wrap, tape machine rolls) as needed. Check magnets at changeover and end of shift and report findings. Continually monitor line to ensure jam-ups have not occurred. Troubleshoot for possible equipment problems. Use lifting devices to move and transport materials. Accurately complete all required paperwork. Sanitation duties to ensure work area is clean, tidy and organized. Other duties as assigned. |
Major industries throughout the Kitchener-Waterloo region include information and community technologies, automotive and advanced manufacturing, aerospace, financial services, and food processing.
With thousands of full time jobs in Kitchener and surrounding areas, it is a fantastic place to work!