NOC 2021 · 72603 · TEER 2
Engineer officers, water transport
Unit group 72603 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Engineer officers in water transport, operate and maintain main engines, machinery and auxiliary equipment aboard ships and other self-propelled vessels, and supervise and coordinate the activities of engine room crews. They are employed by marine transportation companies and federal government departments. 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 marine engineer officer
- assistant engineer - water transport
- chief engineer - water transport
- chief marine engineer - water transport
- Coast Guard vessel chief engineer
- Coast Guard vessel first watchkeeping engineer
- Coast Guard vessel marine engineer officer
- Coast Guard vessel second engineer
- Coast Guard vessel second watchkeeping engineer
- Coast Guard vessel senior engineer
- Coast Guard vessel third engineer
- Coast Guard vessel third watchkeeping engineer
- engineer officer - water transport
- factory freezer trawler chief marine engineer
- factory freezer trawler first engineer
- factory freezer trawler second engineer
- fishing vessel chief engineer
- fishing vessel engineer officer
- fourth engineer - water transport
- junior engineer - water transport
- marine engineer officer
- marine engineer officer - water transport
- marine engineer officer-cadet (except armed forces)
- marine second engineer - water transport
- marine senior engineer - water transport
- mobile platform chief engineer - offshore drilling
- offshore drilling rig marine engineer officer
- second engineer
- second engineer - water transport
- self-propelled barge marine engineer officer
- self-propelled drilling rig chief engineer
- self-propelled drilling rig first engineer
- self-propelled drilling rig marine engineer officer
- self-propelled drilling rig second engineer
- ship engineer officer
- third engineer - water transport
- tugboat engineer
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$37.00 an hour
Low $26.78, high $61.54
Where it pays most
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$47.00
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$45.00
- Avalon Peninsula · Newfoundland and Labrador$38.27
- Montérégie · Quebec$30.00
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | $38.27 | $27.47 – $74.79 | Moderate |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $32.05 | $21.00 – $45.67 | Moderate |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $35.00 | $31.11 – $50.21 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $45.67 | $24.50 – $66.36 | Undetermined |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $45.00 | $25.00 – $55.60 | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 19 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | $38.27 | $27.47 – $74.79 | Moderate |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Cape Breton | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| North Shore | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Annapolis Valley | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Southern | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Halifax | Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $30.00 | $22.00 – $42.00 | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $47.00 | $25.00 – $55.60 | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $45.00 | $25.00 – $55.60 | Moderate |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. 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.