NOC 2021 · 22301 · TEER 2
Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
Unit group 22301 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians provide technical support and services or may work independently in mechanical engineering fields such as the design, development, maintenance and testing of machines, components, tools, heating and ventilating systems, geothermal power plants, power generation and power conversion plants, manufacturing plants and equipment. They are employed by consulting engineering, manufacturing and processing companies, institutions and government departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aeronautical technologist
- aerospace engineering technician
- aerospace engineering technologist
- automation technician
- automation technologist
- cryonics engineering technologist
- die designer
- drone technician
- equipment development technician
- heating designer
- heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems technician
- heating, ventilating and air conditioning technician
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems specialist
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems technologist
- heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technologist
- home automation technician
- house automation technician
- machine designer
- machine tool designer
- marine engineering technologist
- mechanical engineering design technologist
- mechanical engineering development technologist
- mechanical engineering equipment designer
- mechanical engineering technician
- mechanical engineering technologist
- mechanical equipment engineering assistant
- mechanical marine engineering technician
- mechanical technical inspector
- mechanical technologist
- mould designer
- nuclear engineering technician
- nuclear engineering technologist
- nuclear technologist
- power equipment design technician
- reliability technician
- robotics servicing technician
- robotics systems installer and repairer
- robotics technician
- robotics technologist
- ship repair technician
- thermal station technician
- tool and die designer
- tool designer
- unmanned aerial system (UAS) maintainer
- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator - Canadian Armed Forces
- unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technician
- vibration technologist
- wind tunnel test technician
- wind tunnel test technologist
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.