NOC 2021 · 94104 · TEER 4
Inspectors and testers, mineral and metal processing
Unit group 94104 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Inspectors and testers in mineral and metal processing inspect, grade, sample or test raw materials and products from mineral ore and metal processing operations. 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, cement processing plants, clay, glass and stone processing plants and foundries.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- abrasive and clay products grader
- abrasive wheel tester
- anode adjuster - primary metal processing
- asbestos classifier
- asbestos fibre inspector and tester
- asbestos grader
- asbestos shingle inspector
- brick and tile inspector
- brick and tile tester
- brick grader
- castings inspector - foundry
- castings tester - primary metal and mineral products processing
- cell tester - primary metal processing
- cement plant inspector
- clay products grader
- clay tile grader - mineral products processing
- coke inspector - primary metal processing
- coke sampler and tester - primary metal processing
- concrete products inspector
- concrete products tester
- core inspector - foundry
- core tester - foundry
- electrolytic cell tester - primary metal processing
- fibreglass tester
- finishing inspector - primary metal and mineral products processing
- foundry sand tester
- furnace combustion tester - primary metal processing
- glass container tester
- glass inspector
- glass quality control inspector
- glass tester
- gravel grader - mineral products processing
- hardness tester - primary metal processing
- heat treating inspector - metal processing
- ingots inspector - primary metal processing
- inspector - metal processing
- inspector - primary metal and mineral products processing
- iron pellet hardness tester - metal processing
- laminated asbestos products inspector
- metal processing inspector
- metal strength tester - primary metal processing
- metal tensile strength tester - primary metal processing
- mineral sampler - mineral products processing
- molten metal sampler - primary metal processing
- monument inspector - mineral products processing
- ore sample tester - mineral products processing
- ore sampler - mineral products processing
- physical tester - steel mill
- plasterboard inspector - mineral products processing
- pottery and porcelain ware inspector
- quality assurance inspector - steel mill
- salvage glass inspector
- sample tester - primary metal and mineral products processing
- sampler - primary metal and mineral products processing
- sheet and plate inspector - steel mill
- sheet steel inspector - primary metal processing
- steel inspector - primary metal processing
- steel sheet inspector - primary metal processing
- steel tester - primary metal processing
- stone inspector - mineral products processing
- stonework grader
- tester and inspector - primary metal and mineral products processing
- tin plate inspector and grader
- uranium ore evaluator
- wire products inspector
- wire tester and inspector - 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
$26.24 an hour
Low $19.50, high $40.12
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $25.88 | $20.00 – $37.52 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $25.00 | $18.65 – $36.25 | Limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Alberta | $32.65 | $20.00 – $63.75 | Limited |
| British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 15 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Calgary | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Edmonton | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Limited |
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 Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
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.