NOC 2021 · 74201 · TEER 4
Water transport deck and engine room crew
Unit group 74201 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Water transport deck and engine room crew stand watch, operate and maintain deck equipment, perform other deck and bridge duties and assist ship engineer officers to operate, maintain and repair engines, machinery and auxiliary equipment aboard ships or self-propelled vessels. They are employed by marine transportation companies and federal government departments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- able seaman/woman (except armed forces)
- barge deckhand
- boatswain
- boatswain - Canadian Armed Forces
- boatswain - water transport
- boiler tender - ships
- deckhand
- deckhand - ships
- dredge deckhand
- engine room crew member - ship
- engine room greaser - marine
- engine room greaser - water transport
- engine room mechanical assistant - ships
- ferryboat deckhand
- helmsman/woman - water transport
- log boom tugboat deckhand
- marine engine oiler
- marine engineering mechanic
- marine engineering technician
- marine oiler
- mechanical assistant - water transport
- mechanical assistant, ship's engine room
- ordinary seaman/woman (except armed forces)
- pump seaman/woman
- pumpman/woman - ships
- quartermaster
- seaman/woman
- ship boiler tender
- ship engine and boiler room crew member
- ship engine room greaser
- ship engine room mechanical assistant
- ship stoker
- ship tunnel operator
- ship tunnelman/woman
- ship watchman/woman
- ship's carpenter
- stoker - ships
- tanker pumper - ship
- tugboat deckhand
- wheelsman/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.