NOC 2021 · 72022 · TEER 2
Supervisors, printing and related occupations
Unit group 72022 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Supervisors of workers in printing and related occupations supervise and coordinate the activities of workers who produce camera work and printing plates and cylinders, process film, print text and illustrations on paper, metal and other material, and bind and finish printed products. They are employed by companies that specialize in commercial printing or one of its components, such as binding or colour reproduction, in combined printing and publishing companies, such as newspapers and magazines, and in various establishments in both the public and private sectors that have in-house printing departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- binders foreman/woman - printing
- binders supervisor - printing
- bindery foreman/woman - printing
- bindery supervisor - printing
- bindery workers supervisor - printing
- composing foreman/woman - printing
- composing room supervisor - printing
- compositors foreman/woman - printing
- compositors supervisor - printing
- engravers foreman/woman (except photoengravers) - printing
- engraving foreman/woman (except photoengraving) - printing
- film developers foreman/woman
- film developers supervisor
- film printers foreman/woman
- film printing foreman/woman
- film printing supervisor
- film processing foreman/woman
- film processing supervisor
- film processors foreman/woman
- film processors supervisor
- filmsetter operators supervisor
- filmsetters supervisor
- finishing foreman/woman - printing
- finishing supervisor - printing
- gravure press operators foreman/woman
- gravure printers foreman/woman
- hand compositors supervisor
- hot composition foreman/woman - printing
- letterpress foreman/woman - printing
- letterpress room foreman/woman
- mechanical composition foreman/woman - printing
- offset lithography foreman/woman - printing
- offset press foreman/woman - printing
- offset press operators foreman/woman - printing
- OptiCopy and stripping foreman/woman - printing
- photocomposer operators supervisor
- photocomposers supervisor
- photoengravers foreman/woman
- photographic and film processing foreman/woman
- photographic and film processing supervisor
- photographic lab foreman/woman
- photographic processing and finishing foreman/woman
- photographic processors supervisor
- platemakers supervisor
- platemaking supervisor - printing
- plateroom supervisor - printing
- preparatory supervisor - printing
- prepress supervisor - printing
- prepress workers supervisor
- press supervisor - printing
- pressroom foreman/woman - printing
- pressroom supervisor - printing
- printers foreman/woman
- printers supervisor
- printing press operators supervisor
- printing shop foreman/woman
- printing supervisor
- production supervisor - printing
- rotogravure foreman/woman
- rotogravure press operators foreman/woman - printing
- rotogravure pressmen/women foreman/woman - printing
- stereotypists and electroplaters foreman/woman
- typesetters foreman/woman - printing
- typesetters supervisor - printing
- typographers supervisor
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.