NOC 2021 · 94129 · TEER 4
Other wood processing machine operators
Unit group 94129 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Other wood processing machine operators operate and tend wood processing equipment and machines to remove bark from logs, produce wood chips, preserve and treat wood, and produce waferboards, particleboards, hardboards, insulation boards, plywood, veneers and similar wood products. They are employed in sawmills, woodrooms of pulp mills, planing mills, wood treatment plants, waferboard plants and other wood processing plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- automatic veneer clipper tender - wood processing
- barker operator
- barking machine operator - wood processing
- chip screen tender - wood processing
- chip-mixing machine tender - wood processing
- chipper operator
- clipper operator - wood processing
- core layer operator - wood processing
- core-laying machine tender - wood processing
- debarker operator - wood processing
- dip tank tender - wood processing
- drop sorter operator - wood processing
- drum barker tender - wood processing
- drying kiln operator - wood processing
- edge gluer - wood processing
- excelsior machine tender
- flaker operator - wood processing
- fuel log maker - wood processing
- hardboard press operator - wood processing
- hardboard-forming line operator
- hardboard-grinding machine operator
- hardboard-oiling machine tender
- hot press operator - wood processing
- humidifier tender - wood processing
- hydraulic barker operator - wood processing
- incising machine tender - wood processing
- insulation board press tender
- jointer tender - wood processing
- lathe spotter - wood processing
- layup machine operator - wood processing
- log cooker - wood processing
- log vat tender - wood processing
- lumber drop sorter - wood processing
- lumber kiln operator
- lumber sorting machine operator - wood processing
- multiple drum sander operator
- panel-groover operator - wood processing
- panel-sanding machine operator - wood processing
- particleboard line operator
- particleboard-forming machine operator
- particleboard-sizing saw tender
- patcher operator - wood processing
- plywood and veneer patcher and repairer
- plywood bundler machine operator
- plywood panel assembler
- plywood panel groover operator - wood processing
- plywood patcher machine operator
- plywood press operator
- plywood-sizing saw tender - wood processing
- ring barker operator - wood processing
- sander operator - wood processing
- scarf gluer - wood processing
- scarfing machine tender - wood processing
- tempering plant tender
- timber treating tank operator
- veneer clipper - wood processing
- veneer cutter - wood processing
- veneer dryer tender
- veneer jointer - wood processing
- veneer jointer operator - wood processing
- veneer lathe operator
- veneer matcher - wood processing
- veneer patcher - wood processing
- veneer reel tender - wood processing
- veneer slicer-lather - wood processing
- veneer splicer tender - wood processing
- veneer strip cut-off sawyer - wood processing
- veneer taper - wood processing
- veneer-slicing machine operator - wood processing
- waferboard press operator
- wood flour miller
- wood particle dryer tender
- wood particles mixer-dryer tender
- wood treater operator
- wood treating worker - wood preserving
- wood-oiling machine operator - wood processing
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.