NOC 2021 · 95100 · TEER 5
Labourers in mineral and metal processing
Unit group 95100 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Labourers in mineral and metal processing perform material handling, clean-up, packaging and other elemental activities related to mineral ore and metal processing. 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 reclaimer - mineral products processing
- acid conditioning worker - primary metal processing
- alloy mixer - primary metal processing
- alloy processor - primary metal processing
- alumina clarifier helper
- alumina recovery helper
- aluminum sheet separator
- annealer helper - primary metal processing
- asbestos mould stripper
- asbestos moulder
- asbestos shingle floor hand
- asbestos worker
- asbestos worker - mineral processing
- asbestosboard sander
- asbestosboard shearer
- atomizer operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- automatic scrap washer operator
- baghouse attendant - mineral processing
- balcony labourer - glass manufacturing
- balcony worker - glass manufacturing
- ball mill helper - mineral products processing
- ball mill labourer - mineral products processing
- ball mill worker - mineral products processing
- billet helper - primary metal processing
- billet mill helper - primary metal processing
- billet pusher
- billet rolling mill helper - primary metal processing
- bisque placer - mineral products manufacturing
- blast furnace helper
- brick and tile batch mixer
- brick and tile kiln cleaner
- buggy operator - primary metal processing
- busher - primary metal processing
- cadmium leach helper
- carnallite flux maker
- cartridge flux maker
- casting helper
- casting house labourer
- casting machine helper
- casting wheel operator helper
- castings cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- castings trimmer
- cathode loader
- chalk extruder
- chalk moulder - mineral products processing
- charge weigher - primary metal processing
- charger helper - primary metal processing
- cladding assembler - primary metal processing
- classifier helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- clay press worker
- clay products finisher
- coil bander - primary metal processing
- coke loader - primary metal processing
- coke oven heater helper
- coke oven standpipe attendant
- coke oven tar chaser
- cold mill feeder - primary metal processing
- cold roll catcher - primary metal processing
- cold rolling mill feeder - primary metal processing
- conveyor labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- conveyor operator - primary metal and mineral products processing
- copper dust-collector worker
- core room labourer - foundry
- core shop labourer - foundry
- Cottrell precipitator helper - primary metal processing
- crushing operations helper - mineral products processing
- cupola charger - primary metal and mineral processing
- cupola furnace helper
- cupola tapper
- depiler helper - primary metal processing
- depiler table leverman/woman - primary metal processing
- drawer helper - primary metal processing
- dross skimmer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- dryer worker - primary metal processing
- dust remover - primary metal processing
- dust-collector labourer - primary metal processing
- electrolytic refiner helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- extruder helper - primary metal processing
- extruder tender - mineral products processing
- extrusion helper - primary metal processing
- fettler - clay products manufacturing
- fibreglass oven charger helper
- fibreglass oven helper
- filter leaves cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- filtering attendant - primary metal and mineral products processing
- flotation cell helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- flue dust labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- fluorspar flux maker - primary metal processing
- foil roller helper - primary metal processing
- foil separator - primary metal processing
- foundry helper - primary metal processing
- foundry labourer
- foundry worker - primary metal processing
- furnace cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- furnace feeder - primary metal and mineral products processing
- furnace helper
- furnace loader - primary metal and mineral products processing
- furnace skimmer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- furnace tapper - primary metal processing
- glass packer
- glass tapper - mineral products processing
- glass-forming machine operator helper
- gravel screener
- heater helper - primary metal processing
- helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- hot bed leverman/woman - primary metal processing
- hydrate scale reclaimer - primary metal processing
- industrial furnace cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- ingot cladder
- insulation packer - mineral products manufacturing
- jigger operator helper - mineral products processing
- kiln cleaner - primary metal and mineral products processing
- kiln door builder - mineral products processing
- kiln labourer
- kiln labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- kiln operator helper - mineral products manufacturing
- labourer - metallurgy
- labourer - mineral and metal processing
- labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- lead reclaimer - primary metal processing
- lime kiln helper - mineral products processing
- lime kiln operator helper - mineral products processing
- lime slaker
- machine helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- marker - primary metal processing
- melt shop helper
- melt shop labourer
- melter helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- metal impregnator - primary metal processing
- metal pourer helper
- metal pourer helper - primary metal processing
- metal powder lubricator finisher
- metal reclaimer helper - primary metal processing
- metal salvager helper - primary metal processing
- metal tube marker - primary metal processing
- mill helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- mill labourer - mineral products processing
- mixer helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- molten metal mixer helper - primary metal processing
- mould stripper - concrete products manufacturing
- moulder helper - primary metal processing
- ore crushing helper
- ore processing labourer
- ore processing pipe maintenance worker
- plasterboard cutter - mineral products processing
- plasterboard machine feeder - mineral products manufacturing
- plugger - primary metal processing
- porcelain glazer - mineral products manufacturing
- potlining mixer helper - primary metal processing
- powdered metal mixer - primary metal processing
- powdered metal salvager - primary metal processing
- precipitator helper - primary metal processing
- primary metal processing labourer
- production helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- reagent tender helper - primary metal processing
- refiner helper
- refinery helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- refinery labourer
- rod drawer helper - primary metal processing
- rod puller and coiler - primary metal processing
- rolling mill catcher - primary metal processing
- rolling mill helper - primary metal processing
- rolling mill labourer - primary metal processing
- rolling mill worker
- rolling mill worker - primary metal processing
- saggar placer - clay products manufacturing
- salt screening labourer
- scaler - primary metal processing
- scalping helper - primary metal processing
- scrap machine helper - primary metal processing
- scrap metal baler - primary metal processing
- scrap metal loader
- scrap metal processor - primary metal processing
- scrap metal sorter and baler - primary metal processing
- scrap shredder helper
- scrap yard worker - primary metal processing
- screening equipment helper - primary metal and mineral products processing
- scrubber tender - mineral products processing
- selenium recovery helper - primary metal processing
- sheet roller helper - primary metal processing
- shot bagger - explosives manufacturing
- sintering machine loader - primary metal processing
- skimmer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- slime recovery plant helper - primary metal processing
- slip sealer - mineral products processing
- sludge worker - primary metal processing
- smelter helper
- smelter labourer
- soaking pit bottom cleaner - primary metal processing
- stamper - primary metal processing
- steel plant labourer
- stone bed setter - mineral products processing
- stonework filler - mineral products processing
- stretcher-leveller helper - primary metal processing
- tailings disposal labourer - primary metal processing
- tailings labourer
- tankhouse helper - primary metal processing
- tapper - glass manufacturing
- tapper - primary metal processing
- tube drawer helper - primary metal processing
- tube roller helper - primary metal processing
- utility labourer - primary metal and mineral products processing
- utility machine worker - primary metal and mineral products processing
- ware cleaner - clay products manufacturing
- welding-rod-extruder operator helper - primary metal processing
- wire drawer helper
- wire drawing helper
- zinc cathode puller
- zinc drosser
- zinc dust maker
- zinc electrolysis lead burner helper
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
$25.45 an hour
Low $19.00, high $39.48
Where it pays most
- Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean · Quebec$39.00
- Regina--Moose Mountain · Saskatchewan$35.54
- Montérégie · Quebec$28.68
- Northeast · Ontario$28.25
- Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula · Ontario$27.32
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 | $26.00 | $18.70 – $35.00 | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | $21.46 | $16.50 – $33.00 | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | $22.00 | $17.25 – $30.50 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $27.36 | $20.00 – $48.22 | Very limited |
| Ontario | $25.00 | $19.00 – $38.51 | Very limited |
| Manitoba | $23.23 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $26.00 | $18.00 – $40.38 | Moderate |
| Alberta | $25.00 | $19.00 – $38.00 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $27.99 | $20.00 – $40.00 | Very limited |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 22 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Limited |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $26.68 | $20.00 – $31.85 | Limited |
| Montérégie | Quebec | $28.68 | $21.00 – $40.00 | Very limited |
| Montréal | Quebec | $23.36 | $18.00 – $34.14 | Very limited |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Lanaudière | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Laurentides | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $39.00 | $23.75 – $52.02 | Undetermined |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Very limited |
| Toronto | Ontario | $22.02 | $18.00 – $31.29 | Very limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $24.00 | $19.00 – $31.52 | Limited |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | $27.32 | $20.00 – $36.00 | Very limited |
| Windsor--Sarnia | Ontario | $24.35 | $18.00 – $41.05 | Very limited |
| Northeast | Ontario | $28.25 | $20.00 – $43.24 | Very limited |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | $22.00 | $17.00 – $30.00 | Undetermined |
| Regina--Moose Mountain | Saskatchewan | $35.54 | $20.00 – $41.59 | Undetermined |
| Calgary | Alberta | $24.92 | $18.40 – $37.15 | Undetermined |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $25.00 | $19.50 – $39.26 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $25.93 | $18.75 – $40.31 | 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.