Wesgar is a leader in the custom sheet metal fabrication industry, specializing in high-mix, low-volume manufacturing for a wide range of global sectors. Based in Port Coquitlam, we pride ourselves on a workplace culture built on empathy, professional development, and operational excellence. We are committed to maintaining a professional, inclusive, and high-energy environment where every team member has the opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects.
We are looking for a hands-on and efficient Shipper / Crating & Skid Builder to join our Shipping team.
This role is responsible for building standard and customized wooden skids, crates, and packaging solutions to ensure manufactured products are safely protected and prepared for shipment. The ideal candidate has experience in carpentry, woodworking, crate or pallet building, or other hands-on fabrication work, and is confident using saws, measuring tools, and other hand and power tools.
Why Join Us?
Equal Opportunity: Wesgar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Benefits: Eligible employees have access to extended health care, dental care, life and disability insurance, paid vacation, and company events.
Real-World Impact: Play a key role in ensuring precision-manufactured products are safely packaged, protected, and prepared for delivery to customers.
We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Wesgar is the fastest growing custom precision sheet metal fabricator and the largest producer of high-mix, low-volume products in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. A specialist in identifying and solving the unique challenges and complex needs of each customer, Wesgar crafts tailored solutions, such as managing spikes and variable demand, reducing cycle times, managing compound quality and technical requirements, lowering costs, and mitigating supply chain disruptions—allowing our customers to meet and deliver to their customers’ exacting standards.
Our world-class, 100,000 square feet plant, located on Wesgar’s four-acre campus, boasts $30 million in state-of-the-art sheet metal and copper fabrication equipment. Wesgar's unrivaled range of services, intended to eliminate obstacles to success, include design for manufacturability, prototype production, fabrication, finishing, assembly, machining, stringent quality inspection and documentation, inventory and stocking programs, and logistical services. Wesgar’s one-stop shop satisfies the industry’s high demands. Our more than 200 fabrication experts, engineers, metal technologists, and quality control professionals work around the clock as a cohesive team to precisely oversee the dependable delivery of thousands of precision items manufactured in light gauge steel, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper.
Energy storage and backup power systems, power distribution, OEMs, commercial electronics, telecommunications, medical, industrial and automation, clean and renewable energy, security, recreation, and other industries are among those we serve. Wesgar values long-term customer relationships and is proud to count EnerSys, Rockwell Automation, Ballard Power, Kodak, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Honeywell as customers who rely on us to deliver unrivaled responsiveness, responsiveness, collaborative engineering, innovative and accurate precision fabrication, and a flexible approach.
