NOC 2021 · 94153 · TEER 4
Photographic and film processors
Unit group 94153 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Photographic and film processors process and finish still photographic film and motion picture film. They are employed in film processing laboratories and retail photofinishing establishments.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- chemical mixer - photographic processing
- colour film analyzer - photographic processing
- copy camera operator - photographic processing
- darkroom technician
- darkroom technician - photographic processing
- developer-printer machine tender
- developing machine operator - photographic processing
- enlarger operator - photographic processing
- film developer
- film printing machine operator
- film processing technician
- film processor
- film splicer - photographic processing
- film-developing machine tender
- film-printing machine tender
- film-processing machine operator
- motion picture film developer
- motion picture film examiner - photographic processing
- motion picture film printer
- negative cutter - film processing
- negative restorer - photographic processing
- negative retoucher
- negative spotter - film processing
- negative-contact-frame operator
- photo developer
- photo developer-printer
- photo developing inspector
- photo lab technician
- photo processor
- photo technician
- photofinisher
- photograph developer
- photograph developing inspector
- photograph enlarger
- photograph inspector - photographic processing
- photograph mounter
- photographic and film-processing machine operator
- photographic enlarger operator
- photographic film printer
- photographic film processor
- photographic printer
- photographic processor
- photographic-film-processing machine operator
- photographic-processing machine operator
- picture enlarger - photographic processing
- print developer
- print finisher - photographic processing
- print inspector - photographic processing
- print retoucher - photographic processing
- print tender - photographic processing
- quick print machine tender - photographic processing
- slide maker - photographic processing
- X-ray film developer
- X-ray plate developer
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.