NOC 2021 · 72204 · TEER 2
Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers
Unit group 72204 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Telecommunications line and cable installers and repairers install, repair and maintain telecommunication lines and cables, cable television transmission and distribution systems and associated hardware. They are employed by cable television, telephone and other telecommunications service companies. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- access technician - telecommunication
- apprentice lineman/woman - telecommunications
- cable installer - telecommunications
- cable repair technician - telecommunications
- cable repairer - telecommunications
- cable television installation technician
- cable television installer
- cable television maintenance technician
- cable tester - telecommunications
- communication line technician
- communication technician - construction
- communications electrician - construction craft
- community antenna television (CATV) installation technician
- community antenna television (CATV) maintenance technician
- construction technician - cable television
- construction technician - telecommunications
- fibre optic cable splicer
- journeyman/woman lineman/woman - telecommunications
- line inspector - telecommunications
- line installer - telecommunications
- line repairer - telecommunications
- repair lineman/woman - telecommunications
- rigger - telecommunications
- section lineman/woman - telecommunications
- service tracer - telecommunications
- signal tracer - telecommunications
- splicer - telecommunications
- splicer technician - telecommunications
- splicer technician - telephone
- structured cabling technician
- telecommunication cable installer
- telecommunication cable repairer
- telecommunication line construction technician
- telecommunication line technician
- telecommunications cable splicer
- telecommunications line installer
- telecommunications lineman/woman
- telecontrol technologist
- telephone cable splicer
- telephone line and cableman/woman
- telephone line technician
- toll line inspector - telecommunications
- toll line repairman/woman - telecommunications
- toll lineman/woman - telecommunications
- tracer - telecommunications
- underground cable splicer - telecommunications
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.