NOC 2021 · 82021 · TEER 2
Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
Unit group 82021 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Contractors and supervisors in oil and gas drilling and services supervise and coordinate the activities in drilling for oil or gas, operating service rigs, or providing oil and gas well services. They are employed by drilling and well service contracting companies and petroleum producing companies. Contractors may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- assistant offshore drilling rig superintendent
- assistant platform superintendent
- assistant toolpusher - offshore drilling rig
- consultant - gas well drilling
- consultant - oil and gas drilling
- directional drilling consultant - oil and gas
- fracturing supervisor
- multi-service operator - oil field services
- offshore drilling rig superintendent
- oil and gas contractor
- oil and gas drilling foreman/woman
- oil and natural gas well servicing foreman/woman
- oil field consultant
- oil field consultant supervisor
- oil field contractor
- oil well services field supervisor
- platform superintendent - oil and gas drilling
- production coordinator - energy
- rig manager
- rig manager - oil and gas drilling
- toolpusher
- toolpusher - oil and gas well drilling and offshore drilling
- well services crew supervisor - oil and gas drilling
- well services crew supervisor - oil field services
- well site consultant - oil and gas
- wireline field supervisor - oil field services
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.