NOC 2021 · 21300 · TEER 1
Civil engineers
Unit group 21300 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Civil engineers plan, design, develop and manage projects for the construction or repair of buildings, earth structures, powerhouses, roads, airports, railways, rapid transit facilities, bridges, tunnels, canals, dams, ports and coastal installations and systems related to highway and transportation services, water distribution and sanitation. Civil engineers may also specialize in foundation analysis, building and structural inspection, surveying, geomatics and municipal planning. They are employed by engineering consulting companies, in all levels of government, by construction firms and in many other industries, or they may be self-employed.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- airport engineer
- appraisal engineer
- architectural engineer
- asphalt engineer
- bridge engineer
- building envelope engineer
- buildings and bridge engineer
- cartographic engineer
- chief civil engineer
- civil engineer
- civil engineer project manager
- civil engineering project manager
- civil environmental engineer
- civil inspection engineer
- civil pipeline engineer
- civil structural engineer
- coastal engineer
- concrete engineer
- construction engineer
- construction project engineer
- consulting civil engineer
- county engineer
- dams engineer
- district engineer
- drainage design engineer
- environmental engineer
- erecting engineer
- foundation engineer
- geodetic engineer
- geomatics engineer
- highway engineer
- hydraulics engineer
- hydrographic engineer
- hydrological engineer
- irrigation and drainage engineer
- irrigation engineer
- land drainage engineer
- mapping engineer
- material testing civil engineer
- municipal engineer
- navigation and positioning engineer
- noise abatement engineer
- ocean engineer
- photogrammetric engineer
- pollution control engineer
- precision survey engineer
- public health engineer
- public works engineer
- rail transportation traffic engineer
- reclamation engineer
- remote sensing engineer
- river and canal works engineer
- sanitary engineer
- sanitation engineer
- sewage control engineer
- soil engineer
- solid waste management engineer
- spatial information systems engineer
- structural design engineer
- structural engineer
- structural engineering project manager
- survey engineer
- surveying engineer
- traffic engineer
- traffic operations engineer
- transportation engineer
- tunnel engineer
- urban road system engineer
- water and sewer engineer
- water management engineer
- water resources engineer
- water systems engineer
- water treatment engineer
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.