Canada's best companies for 2025 were ranked and these employers are hiring right now
Some of the jobs are pretty high-paying!
VIA Rail sign. Right: Lululemon store.
A new ranking of the best companies in Canada is out now and a lot of the employers are hiring.
It includes companies in banking, finance, insurance, telecommunication, apparel, retail, and other industries.
TIME and Statista released a list of Canada's best companies for this year on July 10, 2025.
This study ranked the top Canadian companies based on three primary metrics: employee satisfaction, sustainability transparency, and revenue growth.
Here are the top 10 companies in Canada, according to the TIME and Statista ranking:
- Lululemon
- TD Bank Group
- Intact
- Sun Life
- Stantec
- Shopify
- Telus
- WSP
- National Bank of Canada
- OpenText
There are so many more well-known companies in Canada that made this ranking, including:
- Aritzia — 12th
- Rogers Communications — 15th
- CIBC — 18th
- Loblaw Companies Limited — 27th
- Transat — 35th
- Metro — 38th
- Dollarama — 39th
- Pet Valu — 54th
- Cineplex — 59th
- VIA Rail — 62nd
- Shoppers Drug Mart — 77th
- Indigo — 78th
- Maple Leaf Foods — 90th
If you're looking for work, a lot of these top companies are hiring right now, including for some high-paying jobs.
Here are a few of the available positions at some of Canada's best companies.
Health and Safety Technician
Salary: $22.30 to $27.56 an hour
Company: Lululemon
Location: Delta, BC
Who Should Apply: You must have general knowledge of occupational health and safety regulations of a distribution center.
Also, you need ot have First Aid CPR and AED training or be willing to get certified.
The ability to frequently lift items weighing up to 50 pounds, wear personal protective equipment and maintain a safe work environment through safe work practices is required.
Process Improvement Consultant
Salary: $74,000 to $112,000
Company: Telus
Location: Toronto or anywhere else in Canada
Who Should Apply: You need a university degree in business, economics, engineering, data science, or a related field.
Also, you must be Lean Six Sigma trained or certified and AGILE methodology or Own.it certified.
Experience in telecom or enterprise services (particularly data services) is required.
You also need more than five years of hands-on experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Own.it, Kaizen, AAR, Fair Process, and process redesign/re-engineering.
More than five years of project management or consulting experience is required as well.
Also, you must have analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into actionable strategies.
Data Security Specialist
Company: Sun Life
Location: North York, ON
Who Should Apply: You need five years of experience in the security or IT industry.
Also, you need experience in:
- working for a medium to large financial institution with knowledge of organization, technology controls, security and risk issues
- a formal change control system (including planning, documenting, scheduling and implementing)
- working on large enterprise-scale projects
- planning and delivering continuous software installation and configuration
- working closely with vendor support to resolve ongoing third-party software issues
The ability to perform installation, performance testing, patching, troubleshooting and daily operational support tasks using IT security tools is required.
You also must be able to plan, coordinate and implement software agent installations during nighttime maintenance windows.
Knowledge of major database platforms, such as Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2/UDB, is required as well.
Locomotive Attendant
Salary: $36.27 an hour
Company: VIA Rail
Location: Vancouver, BC
Who Should Apply: You need a high school diploma and a valid driver's license.
Also, you must be able to lift items weighing up to 50 pounds, use industrial tools, and work outdoors.
Coordinator
Company: National Bank of Canada
Location: Calgary, AB
Who Should Apply: You must have completed a three-year college diploma or its academic equivalent in a field that's related to the industry, along with four years of relevant experience.
Also, you need experience in coordination and Knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite.
iOS Staff Engineer — Mobile App
Salary: $148,000 to $194,300
Company: Lululemon
Location: Vancouver, BC
Who Should Apply: You need a bachelor's degree or diploma in computer science, software engineering or software architecture.
Also, you must have:
- over eight years of engineering experience in Swift
- over five years of experience leading teams of iOS engineers
- over five years of experience working in Point of Sale, eCommerce, or Retail domains.
- experience working with bug tracking and task management software such as JIRA or Confluence
You need an understanding of Apple mobile technologies (MDM, Swift, Objective-C, and MDM) and mobile app development architecture patterns.
It's required that you also have knowledge of:
- CI/CD principles and best practices
- AWS Cloud components
- enterprise-level systems in inventory, commerce, payment, merchandising, or order management systems
Leisure Travel Agent
Company: Transat
Location: Ottawa, ON
Who Should Apply: You must have at least two years of sales experience in a retail environment and consistently meet sales targets.
Also, you need experience using social media and learning new software.
It's required that you have communication skills and the ability to use effective sales techniques.
Engineer
Salary: $102,200 to $125,000
Company: TD
Location: Toronto, ON
Who Should Apply: You need to have an undergraduate degree or technical certificate along with five to seven years of relevant experience.
Also, you must have knowledge of:
- business, technical environments, standards, processes, procedures, programming languages and operating systems
- source control software (preferably Git, Integrity, and Bitbucket)
- software change controls applicable to the banking industry
- continuous integration tools (preferably TeamCity and Jenkins)
- dependency management (preferably Nexus, Maven and Gradle)
- Linux OS (RHEL 7.x, 8.x/9.x).
- server hardware, understanding of network topologies
You need to be familiar with code review tools (preferably Crucible), shell scripting, Windows batch scripting, and Python.
Experience with Agile delivery process is required as well.
Dispatcher
Salary: $62,717 to $77,474
Company: VIA Rail
Location: Ottawa, ON
Who Should Apply: You must have graduated from high school and have a security, emergency dispatch or policing certification from a recognized institution.
Also, you need five years of work experience in a policing, security or emergency dispatching environment.
It's required that you have computer-aided dispatch experience and knowledge of CPIC, records entry and procedures.
You need to be able to communicate in both English and French for this job.
Also, you must be able to read maps, operate communications equipment and receive, prioritize and dispatch emergency calls.
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