Every industry has unique challenges, and having the right talent makes all the difference. At Collabera, we provide customized workforce solutions that help businesses stay competitive, adaptable, and ahead of the curve. With deep industry expertise and a vast talent network, we ensure you have the right people to drive efficiency, productivity, and long-term success. Wherever your business is headed, we’ll help you get there.
Chief Engineer
Contract to Hire: Montreal, Quebec, CA span>
Salary Range: 20.00 - 28.00 | Per Hour
Job Code: 372207
End Date: 2026-11-06
Days Left: 21 days, 7 hours left
Client: Retail
Location: Montreal, Varenne, QC
Duration: 6 Months Contract (Possiblity of extension)
Pay Rate Range: 25-30/hr
Must Haves:
- Min 3–5+ years of data center operations or critical environment (10 years) - telecom, hospitals, manufacturing, logistics (demonstrating fast intervention)
- mission-critical facilities, or facilities engineering experience
- Bilingual in French is a must
- Good communication skills
- Experience reading technical documents, procedures and engineering drawings
- Strong electrical /mechanical facilities experience -
- Foundational knowledge of electrical
- Troubleshooting mission-critical infrastructure, preventative and corrective maintenance
(hands on with environments including low and medium voltage, and mechanical systems including HVAC, cooling/ heating, medium voltage systems, ventilation, transfer switches, breakers, bus bars, and generators, control modules
Excellent attitude (patient, go getter mentality, flexible, ability to deal with ambiguity) - Leadership skills: Bias for action, Ownership, Team work, learn and be curious, transparency
Project management skills - managing tasks, allocating tasks, managing projects. - Experience leading or mentoring technical teams/ technicians and escalations / handling emergencies
- Must be in Canada for over 5 years
Note:
We may use AI-enabled and/or automated tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including application screening, interview scheduling, and candidate communications. These tools are used to enhance consistency and efficiency. All hiring decisions involve human review and are not based solely on automated processing.
The Company offers a total rewards package in accordance with all applicable federal, provincial, and local laws and requirements. Benefit eligibility and offerings vary based on role, employment status, and work location. For contractor positions, benefits are limited to those entitlements and protections required by applicable law, which may include (as applicable) vacation pay, public holidays, leaves of absence, and other legally mandated benefits or payments.
Job Requirement
- AWS
- Data center
- Data center technician
- French
- French
- bilingual
- Electrical
- mechanical
- Chief Engineer
- DCO III
- Data center consultant
- Data center engineer
- HVAC
- Cooling
- heating
- medium voltage
- transfer switches
- breakers
- flexible
- bus bars
- Generator
- control modules
Reach Out to a Recruiter
- Recruiter
- Phone
- Shwetang Chikankar
- shwetang.chikankar@collabera.com
