NOC 2021 · 75101 · TEER 5
Material handlers
Unit group 75101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Material handlers handle, move, load and unload materials by hand or using a variety of material handling equipment. They are employed by transportation, storage and moving companies, and by a variety of manufacturing and processing companies and retail and wholesale warehouses.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- ash handler
- automated storage and retrieval system operator
- automatic pallet equipment operator
- bandoleer packer - explosives manufacturing
- belt conveyor attendant
- beltman/woman
- bin attendant
- bin filler
- binman/woman
- box bander
- box filler
- boxcar loader
- bucket elevator operator
- bulk materials carrier operator
- bulk materials loader operator
- bulk materials unloader
- cement loader and sacker
- coal conveyor operator
- coal conveyor operator - surface mining
- coal dumper
- coal handler
- coal loader-unloader
- coal wheeler
- coal-moving equipment operator
- conveyor belt attendant
- conveyor belt operator (except underground mines)
- conveyor belt patroller-controller
- conveyor console operator
- conveyor operator - material handling (except underground mines)
- conveyor tender - material handling (except underground mines)
- cribber - grain elevator
- disposal worker - warehouse
- dockman/woman - truck transport
- dumper - material handling
- dumper - surface coal mining
- electric dolly operator
- electric mule operator
- electric truck operator
- explosives handler
- explosives packer
- express service handler (except air transport)
- fats and oils loader
- feed mill loader
- forklift operator
- forklift truck operator
- freight car loader
- freight car unloader
- freight handler (except air transport)
- freight loader (except air transport)
- freight unloader (except air transport)
- furniture loader-unloader
- furniture mover
- glass cut-off machine unloader
- grain conveyor operator
- grain elevator operator
- grain handler
- grain weigher
- hand bagger - material handling
- hand bundler
- hand packager
- hand sacker - material handling
- hand truck operator
- heavy materials handler
- household goods mover
- industrial truck operator
- jack lift operator
- jitney driver - material handling
- labourer - material handling
- labourer - warehousing and storage
- lift driver
- lift jack operator
- lift scoop operator
- lift truck operator
- light materials handler
- liquids loader-unloader
- loader-unloader - material handling
- lumber handler - building supplies
- lumber piler - building supplies
- lumber stocker - material handling
- lumber unloader - material handling
- malthouse worker
- material handler
- material handler - manufacturing and warehousing
- Mobilift operator
- munitions handler
- package lift operator
- packer - material handling
- pallet lift operator
- pallet loader operator
- pallet truck operator
- palletizer operator
- paper wrapper - material handling
- pick-up machine operator
- piler - material handling
- piler (except processing)
- pole distributor operator
- pole stacker operator
- power truck driver - material handling
- railway car loader
- reach truck operator
- ready-mix truck loader
- recycled paper handler
- shingle piler - material handling
- shipment assembler
- skidder - fruit packing
- stacker - material handling
- stacker operator - material handling
- stacking machine operator - material handling
- stacking machine tender - material handling
- stock helper
- stock-keeper helper
- stockpiler
- storage man/woman
- storage worker - material handling
- straddle carrier operator
- straddle truck operator
- supermarket jigger operator
- tank truck loader
- tier lift truck operator
- tipman/woman - surface coal mining
- tow motor driver (except air transport)
- truck load weigher
- truck loader
- used building materials yard attendant
- van loader
- warehouse keeper helper
- warehouse worker - material handling
- warehouseman/woman
- warehouseperson
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.