Do you represent an auto sector employer in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Barrie region? 

Are you a jobseeker looking to the future in this area?

Do you represent an employment service organization, economic development organization, or NGO involved in labour market information?

You’re invited to join FOCAL’s Thursday, February 11th, 11:00 am – 12 noon discussion of labour supply & demand forecasts for automotive production jobs in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Barrie region.

This session will provide you with insight into the future of automotive production employment in the region. We will also give an overview of the Kitchener-Waterloo region’s automotive technology cluster, with its strengths in autonomous and connected vehicle technologies as well as Industry 4.0 production technologies.

Register at this registration link and you will receive a confirmation email with the required information for joining the session. And feel free to share this invitation with others.

FOCAL has built a broad measure of automotive production employment to include vehicle assemblers, parts and components manufacturers, materials suppliers, companies supplying tooling and production technology, and connected and autonomous vehicle technology suppliers. By our measure, automotive production in Canada employs approximately 188,500 people, so addressing the sector’s labour demand and supply issues is an important corporate and public policy challenge.

In Ontario alone, our baseline forecast indicates that automotive production in Canada will need to hire approximately 39,000 workers between 2021 and 2030 in order to meet projected labour demands. Our one-hour on-line meeting on February 11th will provide you with details on this recruitment challenge for automotive production employers in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Barrie region, including insights into our findings for over 40 key automotive sector occupations. As always, visit the other pages of the FOCAL website to see all of our reports and forecasts.