NOC 2021 · 72501 · TEER 2
Water well drillers
Unit group 72501 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Water well drillers operate a variety of mobile water well drilling rigs and equipment to drill and monitor residential, commercial and industrial water wells. They are employed by water well drilling contractors and governments, or they may be self-employed. 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.
- apprentice water well driller
- cable tool driller - water well drilling
- churn drill operator - water well drilling
- journeyman/woman water well driller
- water well driller
- water well driller apprentice
- water well driller journeyman/woman
- water well drilling technician
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.