NOC 2021 · 85111 · TEER 5
Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related labourers
Unit group 85111 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Oil and gas drilling, servicing and related labourers carry out a variety of general labouring duties and operate equipment to assist in the drilling and servicing of oil and gas wells. This unit group also includes labourers who assist in geophysical prospecting for oil and gas. They are employed by drilling and well servicing contractors and by petroleum producing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- floorhand - offshore drilling rig
- floorhand - oil and gas drilling
- floorhand - service rig
- floorman/woman - offshore drilling rig
- floorman/woman - oil and gas drilling
- gravity prospecting observer helper
- leasehand
- leasehand - oil and gas drilling
- observer helper - gravity prospecting
- observer helper - seismic prospecting
- oil field labourer
- oil well cementer helper
- perforator helper - oil field services
- perforator loader helper - oil field services
- reeled tubing helper - oil field services
- roughneck
- roughneck - offshore drilling rig
- roughneck - oil and gas drilling
- roustabout
- roustabout - offshore drilling rig
- roustabout - oil and gas drilling
- seismic GPS rover
- seismic line cutter
- seismic prospecting observer helper
- seismic survey helper
- service rig helper
- service rig helper - oil field services
- service rig operator helper
- service rig roughneck - oil field services
- shakerhand
- shakerhand - oil and gas drilling
- shooter - seismograph
- shooter helper - seismic prospecting
- slasher - oil and gas
- slasher - oil field services
- swamper - oil and gas
- swamper - oil field services
- tubing helper - oil field services
- vibrator operator - seismic prospecting
- well puller helper - oil field services
- well treatment helper
- well treatment helper - oil field services
- wireline helper
- wireline helper - 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.