Penticton, British Columbia
Manufacturing software in Penticton.
Custom systems for Penticton manufacturers. Industrial jobs here pay $60,000 to $80,000. Wasted hours cost you the most of any wage in town. Free walkthrough.
The money
Your industrial wage is the highest in town. So wasted hours cost the most.
Industrial jobs in Penticton pay $60,000 to $80,000 a year, among the highest private sector wages in the city, and the sector brings in about half a billion dollars a year in outside money (Penticton Herald, quoting the Penticton Industrial Development Association, read 18 Sep 2026).
Now put that against the waste. On a 90 person fabrication shop we mapped, 28.5 hours a week went into work nobody sells (the payback chart on pragmabuild.com/how-it-works).
Take the middle of that wage range, $70,000 a year. A full year is about 2,080 working hours. $70,000 divided by 2,080 is $33.65 an hour.
- $33.65an hour. $70,000 a year divided by 2,080 working hours.
- $959a week. 28.5 hours times $33.65.
- $49,869a year. $959 a week times 52.
Wage: Penticton Herald, quoting the Penticton Industrial Development Association, read 18 Sep 2026.
Nearly fifty thousand dollars of your best paid time, spent re-typing.
That was a 90 person shop. Most shops here are smaller. Your hours are your own and we measure them on the walkthrough.
Your town
Yes, this is your town
Penticton’s industrial core is small and it is dense. Around 15 manufacturers, most of them in the Penticton Industrial Development Association, and the association’s president calls manufacturing the city’s single largest economic driver alongside tourism and agriculture (Penticton Herald, read 18 Sep 2026).
What gets made here: truck bodies and trailers for forestry, construction and oilfield. Engineered mass timber, in a plant that has run since 1962. Ductile iron and high chrome white iron castings in a foundry. Factory built modular housing. Agricultural sprayers and evaporation systems (City of Penticton, manufacturing and industrial, read 18 Sep 2026).
Fifteen firms making five completely different things. Not one of them is going to find its system on a shelf.
The work
What we build
Nothing here comes off a template, because nothing you make does either.
Know what it is made of.
Multi level bills of material, revisions, routings, standard cost, where used, change history.
Know it was checked.
Inspection checklists, non conformance, corrective action, certificates and traceability, tied to the part and the operator.
Know it got billed.
Quote to job to shipment to invoice. Typed once. On the 90 person shop we mapped, that alone was 13.5 hours a week back.
Know what you own.
Asset register, parts and vendor sourcing, reliability rating, downtime cost, spares.
Money toward it
Who pays for it
Training money is open. Capital money mostly is not.
Open: the BC Employer Training Grant, through WorkBC, for the 2026/27 year. It pays 80% of training costs, up to $10,000 per employee and $300,000 per employer a year, for training starting on or after 1 April 2026. It covers training your staff on new equipment and new software (WorkBC, read 18 Sep 2026).
Closed: the BC Manufacturing Jobs Fund intake (BC government). Closed: PacifiCan’s Business Scale up and Productivity program, not accepting applications as of its June 2026 update (PacifiCan). Closed: the federal Canada Digital Adoption Program, since 19 February 2024 (BDC).
What we hear
What usually stops people
“We make something nobody else makes.”
Good. Three of the jobs on this website look nothing alike and the same engineer built all three. The plant changes and the data changes. The method does not.
“Our estimator carries it in his head.”
So did one on a tower job: twenty floors, thirty units each, measured by hand. It started as a calculator for one man and became the estimating for the whole company.
“We would have to stop production.”
No. A couple of hours for the walkthrough, then a short check-in each week.
“We are an hour away from you.”
About 62 km, roughly 52 minutes down Highway 97 (Kelowna to Penticton). Most work is remote anyway.
Next step
Book a walkthrough.
Free. Thirty minutes. A written map of your operation, every process priced, in the order it pays back. Yours either way.
Straight answers
- How far is Penticton from you?
- About 62 km, roughly 52 minutes. We are in Kelowna.
- We are a foundry, not an assembly shop. Does that fit?
- Yes. Ten to five hundred people, in anything that builds, moves, fixes or processes real things.
- Can we start small?
- That is how all of them started. One problem, said out loud, and a first working piece inside two days.
- Who am I dealing with?
- Christopher. He runs the walkthrough, he writes the code, and he stays on the job through handover.