Working Group 4 – Workforce
Committee co-chairs :
Nathalie Drouin
Chairholder, Research Chair INFRA-S on Social Value of Infrastructures
INFRA-S, ESG UQÀM, École des sciences de la gestion
Chloé St-Amand
Executive Director
Camo-Route - Comité sectoriel de main-d'œuvre de l'industrie du transport routier
Working Group 4 - Workforce
Mandate

Promote the sector to future workers by showcasing the opportunities this industry has to offer and accentuating training and employee retention policies in the industry’s companies.

ONGOING KEY PROJECTS

In charge of this working group, Yves Murray, Project Manager: ymurray@cargo-montreal.ca

Planning for the 8th edition of Career Day:

  • Review of the original format
  • Search for alternative funding

Continued work on projects for the TCIP:

  • Organization and promotion of visits
  • Discussions on the program’s continuity when funding ends
  • Search for funding and partnership
  • Making TCIP outreach possible to the rest of Quebec

Goals

Fill the urgent need for new talent in this sector by focusing on concrete actions to attract new talent.

Promote the opportunities offered by the industry to young people and people looking for a new career.

Achievements

Organization of the 7th edition of CargoM’s Transportation and Logistics Career Day

Career Day — On-site event held on November 2, 2022 at the Grand Quay of the Port of Montreal :

  • 48 businesses
  • 500+ visitors
  • 1,000 job postings
  • 2 simulators and 4 trucks for demonstrations
  • Lightning job matching activity (10 businesses, 35 participants) in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM)
  • Presentation by Services Québec Montréal on services available to businesses
  • Visit from Ms. Sophie Mauzerolle, City Councillor of Montreal’s Ville-Marie borough, member of the Executive Committee, responsible for transportation and mobility

The Trucking Career Immersion Program (TCIP), a one-day program that introduces participants to the various facets of truck driving financed by Conseil emploi métropole, with Camo-Route and the Centre de formation du transport routier de Saint-Jérôme (CFTR) as project partners:

  • TCIP translation (website, flyers and checklists)
  • Official launch of the program in April 2022
  • 8 visits planned between May and October 2022 at Morneau and Groupe Robert
  • 106 applications received and 33 participants
  • Collaboration with the Port of Montreal to spread news of the TCIP to Indigenous peoples in and around Montreal
  • Discussion to plan activities outside of Montreal

Eight employment and training newsletters issued over the course of the year

Participation in the working committee on updating the freight transport diagnostic study by Camo-Route

Participation in the working committee on updating the shipping industry’s diagnostic study by the Human Resources Sectorial Committee of the Maritime Industry (CSMOIM)

Promotion of training available from education institutions that are members of CargoM

Cargo
CargoM
Port of Montreal Building
2100 Pierre-Dupuy Avenue
Wing 2, Suite 2100
Montréal (Québec) H3C 3R5

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