NOC 2021 · 72010 · TEER 2
Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations
Unit group 72010 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Contractors and supervisors in machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations supervise and coordinate the activities of workers classified in the following unit groups: Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors (72100), Tool and die makers (72101), Sheet metal workers (72102), Boilermakers (72103), Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters (72104), Ironworkers (72105), Welders and related machine operators (72106) and Machining tool operators (94106). They are employed by structural, platework and related metal products fabrication, manufacturing and erecting companies and machine shops. Contractors may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- automotive machine shop foreman/woman
- blacksmith foreman/woman
- blacksmith shop foreman/woman
- boilermaker foreman/woman
- boilermaker supervisor
- boilermaker, plater and structural metal worker foreman/woman
- boilermaking shop foreman/woman
- construction ironwork contractor
- coppersmith foreman/woman
- electric welding pipe mill headwelder
- ironwork contractor
- ironwork supervisor
- ironworkers foreman/woman
- machine shop foreman/woman
- machine shop inspectors foreman/woman
- machine shop supervisor
- machine tool grinding foreman/woman
- machine tool operators foreman/woman
- machining and tooling inspectors foreman/woman
- machining foreman/woman
- machining inspectors foreman/woman
- machining supervisor
- machining tool foreman/woman
- machining tool operators foreman/woman
- machinists and machine tool set-up operators foreman/woman
- machinists foreman/woman
- machinists supervisor
- maintenance machine shop foreman/woman
- metal fabricator foreman/woman
- metal fitters foreman/woman
- metal mould and metal patternmakers foreman/woman
- metal mould and metal patternmakers supervisor
- metal shapers foreman/woman
- metal shipwright foreman/woman
- metal-machining inspection foreman/woman
- metalwork forming, shaping and installing contractor
- mould shop foreman/woman - machining
- pattern shop foreman/woman - metal machining
- plate shop foreman/woman
- platework fabricator supervisor
- platework fabricators foreman/woman
- precision instrument machine shop foreman/woman
- production machine shop foreman/woman
- production supervisor - machine shop
- quality control foreman/woman - metal machining
- sheet metal contractor
- sheet metal roofer supervisor
- sheet metal roofing contractor
- sheet metal workers foreman/woman
- sheet metal workers supervisor
- ship riggers foreman/woman
- shipfitters foreman/woman
- shipyard machine shop foreman/woman
- steel fitter foreman/woman - metal fabrication
- steel frame erectors foreman/woman
- steel rigger foreman/woman
- steel structure erectors foreman/woman
- steel structure forming, shaping and erecting contractor
- steel truss erectors foreman/woman
- structural metal erector foreman/woman
- structural metal fabricator foreman/woman
- structural metal fitter supervisor
- structural steel contractor
- structural steel erecting contractor
- structural steel worker foreman/woman
- tool and die inspectors foreman/woman
- tool and die inspectors supervisor
- tool and die makers foreman/woman
- tool and die makers supervisor
- tool and die making supervisor
- tooling foreman/woman
- tooling inspectors foreman/woman
- tooling inspectors supervisor
- tooling supervisor
- toolroom foreman/woman
- welder foreman/woman
- welder supervisor
- welding contractor
- welding supervisor
- zinc roofers foreman/woman
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.