In Business for Our Community
Career Services is fully engaged in serving the Brockville community by providing and supporting the best possible opportunities for growth and development for everyone. Our unique combination of providing skill development, placement and employment services, coupled with a revenue generating co-packing and staffing solutions business, has been highly effective at covering the operational costs and allowing us to focus on our mandate of serving the community.
With over 45 years experience, Career Services has grown to be one of the largest co-packer’s in South Eastern Ontario. Our employees are quality minded leaders, fully trained to meet your companies packaging, assembly, and staffing needs.
Whether there are unexpected work demands, short term projects, new product introduction (NPI), or nuisance jobs that interfere with the productivity of your skilled labor, Career Services has the solution and has worked with numerous firms to solve their Packaging, Assembly, Pallet and Employment needs.
Our services will allow your company to expand volumes, service new contracts, enter more markets, and will increase your profits, all while supporting the community. 100% of all Revenues generated through our industrial co-packing, pallet manufacturing and employment solutions help to subsidize employment services to promote and expand inclusive employment throughout the region.
Services we offer
Packaging, Assembly, Rework (Our Facility)
1. Shrink Wrapping
2. Sleeve Wrapping
3. Flow wrapping
4. Packaging
5. Poly Bagging
6. Hand Assembly
7. POP/PDQ Displays
8. Repacking/Rework
9. Custom displays
10. Promotion packs
11. Coding
12. Custom Kitting
13. Multi Kit Assembly
14. Private Label Packaging
15. PDQ Displays
16. Sorting
Pallet & Crate Manufacturing (Our Facility)
1. ISPM 15 Certified
2. CWPCP Certified
3. High or Low Volume
4. Stringer Pallets
5. Block Pallets
6. Custom Pallets
7. Custom Crates
Staffing Solutions (Your Facility)
1. Onsite Co-Packing
2. Cleaning
3. Temporary Placements
4. Fulltime Placements
5. Pre-screened
6. Criminal Checks
7. Flexible
“With Career Services you can be assured that we will provide quality work, done according to your timelines and at competitive rates. We can help you with any of your packaging, converting or staffing needs”
Dave Smith Business Operations Manager
For over 45 years, Career Services has provided co-packing, converting, assembly and light manufacturing services to leading companies. From small to medium businesses or enterprises (SMB/SME’s), to larger fortune 500 companies, no job is too big or too small.
Our goal is to exceed customer expectations through quality and safe work practices, providing our customers with value-added supply chain services that lead to their success.
Career Services Co-packing industries create critical training and employment opportunities for individuals facing barriers to employment and they financially support our service principle to expand inclusive employment throughout our community.
Packaging is our Specialty, we co-package and convert millions of units each year. Your project/products will be produced according to your criteria and our leadership team will make sure jobs are completed quickly and efficiently. Career Services will make sure that you can realize the greatest possible margins for your co-packing, converting and re-worked products.
We have numerous pieces of heating, shrinking, sealing and stretch-wrapping equipment that are fast and efficiently operated to make your product appealing to your customers. We will work together with you to ensure that everything we do is to your standards and is completed in your time frame.
Co-Packing Services we Offer:
1. Shrink Wrapping
2. Sleeve Wrapping
3. Flow Wrapping
4. Packaging
5. Poly Bagging
6. Hand Assembly
7. POP/PDQ Displays
8. Repacking/Rework
9. Custom displays
10. Rework
11. Coding
12. Custom Kitting
13. Multi Kit Assembly
14. Private Label Packaging
15. Sorting
16. Promotion packs
Quality Co-packing and Rework Assurance
At Career Services quality and safety are our top priorities. Career Services has industrially approved Quality Assurance personnel and our quality standards are industry recognized and rooted in Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and high Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Many of our customers rely on Career Services as their sole quality auditing source, shipping their products direct to their distribution centers throughout North America. Our quality assurance specialists ensure that projects move through the different production phases without any compromises in quality or safety. Throughout the entire co-packaging process, our employees are constantly checking every component that we handle for quality—not just for our workmanship but for our customers’ workmanship as well, creating a 100% quality check.
Career Services provides subcontracting services for the manufacturing of products in Perth, Ontario where our facility benefits from the flexibility, quality and operational efficiencies your service offers. By providing employment to individuals of all abilities within our community, Career Services offers an ability to create an inclusive work environment while engaging our local community. We are a very satisfied client of Career Services and are thrilled to see your continued growth in our community.
Prashanth Vankayalpati | Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
At Career Services, it is our goal to be our customers first choice for their staffing needs. We strive to offer our customers pre-qualified, quality minded employees with safe working practices to increase your productivity while reducing workplace accidents. We currently out-source our personnel to industries, manufacturers, retailers and businesses in the Brockville and surrounding areas.
Whether you require temporary or long-term solutions, looking to fill a single part time position, contract labour or bringing on a team our employees are experienced having worked in several Fortune 500 manufacturing sites throughout the region.
Our team members are fully screened under an extensive profile that includes work history, educational background and up-to-date criminal and background checks. We can customize selection and testing processes to make sure our employees meet your specific requirements.
The Career Services Advantage:
For over 40 years, Career Services has run its own Co-Packing and Pallet Manufacturing facility. This give us an advantage to prescreen our workforce against several industry benchmarks (attendance, reliability, flexibility, quality, productivity) before they are placed at your facility or business.
Benefits
1. Meet fluctuating and just in time labour needs
2. Pre-screened candidates
3. Candidates vetted to meet hiring criteria
4. Trained candidates
5. High retention rates
6. Ease of onboarding
7. Help to build your inclusive workforce Hiring options with $0 finder’s fees
Career Services has provided Proctor & Gamble Brockville with employment solutions for over 30 years. From 5 to 80 employees, Career Services has always provided P&G with a quality workforce and amazing customer service
Mike Sturgeon | Warehouse and Palletizing Leader Proctor & Gamble Brockville Site
For us packaging starts from the floor up.
With over 30 years of experience, Career Services is committed to providing quality products and customized pallet and crating solutions.
Career Services is focused on quality and its ability to produce pallets at the lowest possible cost, striving to be the best at meeting our customer’s expectations in a broad range of industries including industrial, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and food grade products. Our wood products are stamped under the ISPM 15 requirements for international export and we possess the only CWPCP certification in the Brockville area.
Career Services can manufacture any size of softwood pallet, or shipping container that your operation may require. We can produce anything from single prototypes to large scaled production runs. We quote lead times on a per customer basis, with rush services available so that our customers production is never compromised. Whatever the needs, we will custom build according to your specifications.Career Services is audited and certified annually so that we can provide heat-treated pallets (HT pallets) for export in accordance with the IPPC’s most current ISPM 15 requirements. We are well educated on ISPM 15 rules and regulations and stays informed on the latest changes in wood packaging export requirements so that your shipment meets all the required international regulations.
Services We Offer:
1. Custom Design/Prototyping Pallets and Crates
2. Quality Control
3. ISPM 15 Certified/HT Pallet Certification
4. High or Low Volume
5. Stringer pallets (2-way, 4-way, GMA)
6. Block pallets
Career Services has provided Pallet and Co-packing services for our manufacturing for over 15 years. Their quality and quick turnaround time enables us to continue to support our valued customers. We appreciate their continued efforts and partnership to make our business community inclusive and diverse.
Lisa Johnston | Purchasing Co-Ordinator Manufacturing
Originally slotted as an effective way to dispose of our customers’ corrugated shipping cartons left from our co-packing endeavors, Career Services now provides a complete corrugate recycling program to businesses in the Brockville and the Surrounding Area.
Career Services has the capabilities to pick up the material with one of our two delivery vehicles or receive your transport for expedited unloading and recycling.
All our recycled material must be clean as our recycled cardboard meets the highest classification for recycled corrugate, graded at OCC #11.
Last year alone, Career Services saved approximately 7800 trees from being used in new corrugate processing.
Don’t Pay to have your Cardboard taken away
Cardboard Recycling is good for us all. When Career Services takes your cardboard, it not only helps saves our environment from deterioration by conserving valuable resources, the revenue generated from our recycling endeavors helps fund training and job opportunities for those individuals facing barriers to employment in our community.
Q: I am interested in your packaging/pallet manufacturing/employment solutions services for my business, who do I call to get pricing?
A: Send an email to [email protected] with your requirements and contact information and we will call you to discuss options.
Is there any cost for picking up our business’ cardboard?
Within the Brockville area the pick-up is free. Outside Brockville a small fee is applied for our trucking service. We can provide bins for your cardboard and switch them out on a routine basis.
Will your Dock bays accommodate full size 53ft trailers?
Yes, we have 5 full sized truck bays, as well as 2 ground level bays. We can accommodate up to 14, 53 ft trailers on our site. We also have 2 forklifts to unload/load trailers and 2, 5 ton trucks onsite for delivery and pickups.
Do you offer production manpower for off-site locations?
Yes! We currently have crews of employees working at different sites throughout Brockville area. If your site is located out of Brockville area, we can arrange taxis to transport crews to the required location. This can be arranged for short or long-term work contracts.
We use custom machinery to make our products, can we send our machinery to your location to have your crews operate it?
Yes, we have several customers that have transferred their custom machinery to our location to assemble and package their products. Our building is fully equipped for most power requirements (including 3 phase 600amp). Many jobs are small run production, and we can accommodate this need. We also have trained machine operators, mechanics and machinists that can properly operate and maintain your equipment.
Do you have access to large warehouse areas if we have a one-time large production run?
Yes! Contact us with your needs and we can accommodate, we have close partnerships with local warehouses, trucking services, and staffing to get the job done!
Do you work from a set of Standard Operating Procedures? If so, what are they?
We do. In fact, we have spent over 40 years developing, testing, revising, and codifying them. We have volumes of detailed, industry-specific SOPs, from pharmaceutical, packaged goods, to food service companies.
What types of wood do you use in your pallet building?
We currently only use Heat Treated (HT) Softwood Lumber. However, we can accommodate and build to any specification. Our Lumber suppliers can source any kind of material from non-HT to Hard Wood.
We are looking to hire people for our company, is there a finder’s fee if we hire from your bank of people?
Our facility is focused on training and development to help people obtain work skills, we have no fees or costs for hiring. We actually encourage our staff to apply at many different jobs, and provide them with the supports to be successful.
I would like to work for Career Services production line, how do I apply? What is the process?
We always accept resumes by email [email protected] Our production needs change all the time, we keep all resumes on file and when we need to hire, we call from the submitted resumes. When we need additional staff, you will also see job postings on the Indeed and Employment and Education Centres (EEC) websites. As jobs become available, we review resumes and select possible candidates, and call successful candidates for an interview.
How will I be paid?
Career Services strives to be a ‘paperless’ organization, our employees are paid weekly via direct deposit.
Can I still apply if I am looking for part-time or weekend work?
Of course. We regularly recruit for several different shifts, and schedules. However, it helps to remain open to and flexible various shifts.
Can I register if I have no work experience?
Of course, everyone needs to start somewhere! Career Services prides itself in helping everyone attain employment.