With boundless opportunities in the industry and benefits like work-life balance, exciting and enjoyable work, inclusive culture, transferable skills, and good pay, ‘Let’s Go Build’ is inviting potential employees to build a future in Western Canada’s lumber, building materials and hardgoods industry.

Let’s Go Build’ is an invitation by the Western Retail Lumber Association’s 1100+ member organizations to future employees. The lumber, building materials and hardgoods industry offers opportunity, growth, stability, and work-life balance and believes in investing in and elevating its people.

The ‘Let’s Go Build’ recruitment campaign brings together job opportunities from members based in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Northwest Ontario, Yukon, and Nunavut. The industry is committed to increasing awareness of the opportunities and benefits a career in the industry offers among traditional and non-traditional audiences. The ‘Let’s Go Build’ website is a dedicated hub that will address job seekers’ queries about these industries and clear misperceptions. It will bridge the gap between employers and employees; the ‘Build Your Career’ page will list job openings at the 1100+ member organizations and will be continually updated.

Through the campaign, the industry has united to enable potential candidates at all stages in their life or career to explore job opportunities in sectors including natural resources, manufacturing, remanufacturing, wholesale and distribution, professional building, retail, forestry management, transportation, construction, development, market research and innovation, education, export and trade, standards, supply chain, steel aluminum, gypsum, insulation, building science, energy efficiency, paints and finishes, and green technology.

The lumber, building materials and hardgoods industry is crucial to Canada and has been growing, innovating and expanding for decades. The market size of the lumber and building material stores industry in Canada was over $108 billion in 2022, and currently, it employs over 461,000 Canadians.