Major employers in Trail
8 employers, 2 of them head offices: 0 worldwide, 0 national and 2 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.
Trail — the /local page · Who represents Trail · Companies
Employers8
Worldwide HQ0
National HQ0
Regional HQ2
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Employers, largest first
People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.
| Company | Here | Employees here | Worldwide HQ | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teck Metals Ltd. — Trail OperationsManufacturing — non-ferrous metal smelting and refining (zinc, lead, specialty metals)part of Teck Resources Limited | Major site | 1,5222022 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Careers → |
| School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia)Education — K-12 public school district | Regional HQSchool district serving Castlegar, Fruitvale, Robson, Rossland and Trail (board office in Trail) | 3502022 | Trail, British Columbia | Careers → |
| Walmart Supercentre — TrailRetail — general merchandisepart of Walmart Inc. (Walmart Canada) | Major site | 1202022 | Bentonville, Arkansas | Careers → |
| City of TrailPublic administration — municipal | Major site | 902022 | Trail, British Columbia | Careers → |
| Kootenay Savings Credit UnionFinance — credit union | Regional HQCredit union serving the East and West Kootenay | — | Trail, British Columbia | Careers → |
| FortisBC (Trail contact centre and Kootenay operations)Utilities — electricity and natural gas distributionpart of Fortis Inc. | Major site | — | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador | Careers → |
| Golden Life Management — Rose Wood VillageHealth care — seniors' housing, assisted living and residential carepart of Golden Life Management Corporation | Major site | — | Cranbrook, British Columbia | Careers → |
| Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital (Interior Health)Health care — general hospitalpart of Interior Health Authority | Major site | — | Kelowna, British Columbia | Careers → |
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Notes on this record
- Owner of the smelter: Teck Metals Ltd. ('Teck Metals') owns and operates the integrated smelting and refining complex at Trail (Teck 2025 AIF). Teck Resources and Anglo American have agreed a merger of equals to form Anglo Teck, headquartered in Vancouver; Teck's merger page shows shareholder and Investment Canada Act approval, and the site footer still reads Teck Resources Limited on 2026-10-23, so the merger is treated as not yet closed.
- Trail Operations 2025: revenue $2,489M, refined zinc 230 kt (Teck Trail Operations page).
- Regional employers on the KootenayBiz list with Trail sites but not recorded here (company website not opened in this pass): Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (168, Grand Forks & Trail; rdkb.com returned HTTP 403 to our user agent), Ferraro Foods (150, Rossland & Trail), Walmart Trail (120), Wood Canada Limited (110, Trail), Maglio Building Centre (77, Nelson & Trail), Canada Safeway Trail (65), Selkirk College (690 across six campuses incl. Trail; HQ Castlegar).
- Run stopped early on coordinator instruction (credits); the list is short of the 10-15 target.
- Deepen pass 2026-10-30: added careers pages to every row and added FortisBC (Trail contact centre) and Walmart Trail.
- Blocked or not verified 2026-10-30: rdkb.com robots.txt has a group naming ClaudeBot/anthropic-ai with Disallow: /, so the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (KootenayBiz 168, Grand Forks & Trail) is left out. woodplc.com returns 403 on robots.txt, so Wood Canada (110) is left out. ferrarofoods.com does not resolve, so Ferraro Foods (150, Rossland & Trail) is left out. Canada Safeway Trail (65): safeway robots 403 in an earlier pass.
- Metal Tech Alley (metaltechalley.com, an initiative of the Lower Columbia Community Development Team Society) is the region's critical-metals and recycling tech cluster. Its site names no member firms. KC Recycling (battery recycler on the Trail–Rossland border) shows up only on third-party job boards; no company-owned website was found, so it is left out. 5N Plus's own site no longer lists a Trail facility. No venture-funded software company with its head office in Trail was found.
- Red Mountain Resort (KootenayBiz 250) is in Rossland, not Trail, so it is not recorded here.
- The City of Trail's 'Trail & Area Employment Resources' page (trail.ca/business-development/doing-business-in-trail/trail-area-employment-resources/) gathers local job boards for job-seekers.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.
- Teck Resources Limited, 2025 Annual Information Form (Exhibit 99.1 to Form 40-F, filed 2026-02-19) · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: US public filing; none stated
- Teck — Trail Operations page · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: Teck Legal Notice (not read in full); single page read
- Teck — Merger of Teck and Anglo American page · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: as above
- KootenayBiz (KPI Media Inc.) — 2023 Top Kootenay Employers (2022 employment numbers; latest list with content; 2024-2026 list pages are empty) · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: none stated; publisher notes the list is an approximation and not every business verified its numbers
- Interior Health — Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital location page · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: none read
- School District No. 20 (Kootenay-Columbia) home page · retrieved 2026-10-23Terms: none stated
- FortisBC careers — Jobs by location · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: none read
- Teck careers — Trail location page · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: Teck Legal Notice (not read in full)
- Golden Life Management — Villages page · retrieved 2026-10-30Terms: none read