NOC 2021 · 93100 · TEER 3
Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing
Unit group 93100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing, operate and monitor multi-function process control machinery and equipment to control the processing of mineral ores, metals or cement. They are employed in mineral ore and metal processing plants such as copper, lead and zinc refineries, uranium processing plants, steel mills, aluminum plants, precious metal refineries and cement processing plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- alloy control operator - zinc casting
- bar mill finisher - primary metal processing
- billet mill roller - primary metal processing
- blast furnace operator
- blast furnaceman/woman
- blooming mill roller
- breakdown mill operator
- central control caster
- central control caster - primary metal processing
- central control operator - cement manufacturing
- central control room operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- central control room operator - primary metal processing
- chief flotation operator
- chief operator - zinc pressure leach
- coke plant by-products operator
- cold mill operator - primary metal processing
- concentrator control room operator
- console operator - cement manufacturing
- continuous casting machine operator - primary metal processing
- continuous casting operator - primary metal processing
- control room furnace operator - smelter
- control room operator - primary metal processing
- copper melter
- copper refinery operator
- crucible furnace operator
- crusher control room operator
- cupola furnace operator - primary metal processing
- dross furnace operator
- electric arc furnace operator - primary metal processing
- electric furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- electrolytic refinery process operator
- furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- head charger
- heater - primary metal processing
- hot mill roller - primary metal processing
- induction furnace operator - mineral and metal processing
- ion exchange operator
- lead-refining furnace operator
- melter - primary metal processing
- metal heater - primary metal processing
- metal heater operator
- metal melter
- metal roaster - primary metal processing
- metal smelter
- molybdenum roaster operator
- nuclear fuel processor
- open-flame furnace operator - primary metal processing
- ore roaster
- oxygen furnace operator - primary metal processing
- panel board operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- pelletizing control operator
- perlite expander control panel operator - mineral products processing
- process operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- process operator - zinc pressure leach
- purity control operator - zinc leaching
- refinery process operator - primary metal processing
- reverberatory furnace operator - primary metal processing
- roaster operator - primary metal processing
- rolling mill control operator
- rolling mill control operator - primary metal processing
- slabbing mill roller - primary metal processing
- slurry controller - primary metal processing
- smelting furnace operator - primary metal processing
- steel heater operator
- steel-degasser process operator
- vacuum furnace operator - primary metal processing
- vacuum-degasser process operator - primary metal processing
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
$44.50 an hour
Low $32.00, high $53.83
Where it pays most
- Edmonton · Alberta$55.80
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$53.67
- Prince Albert · Saskatchewan$53.18
- Saskatoon--Biggar · Saskatchewan$51.37
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$49.72
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 | $42.83 | $27.00 – $70.00 | Very good |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $41.81 | $29.49 – $55.92 | Limited |
| Ontario | $43.00 | $19.20 – $48.73 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $31.29 | $22.95 – $38.01 | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | $50.17 | $31.86 – $73.08 | Good |
| Alberta | $50.85 | $34.17 – $70.28 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $45.00 | $38.00 – $56.00 | 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 25 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 | $42.00 | $29.76 – $70.00 | Undetermined |
| South Coast--Burin Peninsula | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| West Coast--Northern Peninsula--Labrador | Newfoundland and Labrador | $46.00 | $27.00 – $52.00 | Very good |
| Notre Dame--Central Bonavista Bay | Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $46.12 | $34.19 – $55.40 | Moderate |
| Ottawa | Ontario | $36.08 | $29.74 – $38.55 | Undetermined |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | $36.01 | $27.47 – $39.53 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $34.61 | $26.30 – $38.25 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $37.81 | $30.24 – $43.31 | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | $35.62 | $28.28 – $38.47 | Undetermined |
| Stratford--Bruce Peninsula | Ontario | $33.89 | $26.54 – $35.82 | Undetermined |
| Northeast | Ontario | $41.56 | $32.45 – $49.94 | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | $42.52 | $30.15 – $55.28 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $49.72 | $33.50 – $68.16 | Undetermined |
| Saskatoon--Biggar | Saskatchewan | $51.37 | $32.35 – $67.51 | Undetermined |
| Prince Albert | Saskatchewan | $53.18 | $36.77 – $75.72 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $48.00 | $34.79 – $51.04 | Undetermined |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $53.67 | $41.70 – $64.58 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $55.80 | $39.14 – $68.31 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $42.66 | $33.47 – $48.05 | Undetermined |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $47.86 | $40.50 – $55.55 | Moderate |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $45.21 | $36.58 – $52.31 | Limited |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $46.83 | $38.53 – $53.64 | Moderate |
| Nechako | British Columbia | Not published | Not published | 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) · Small Area Estimation (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.