NOC 2021 · 33101 · TEER 3
Medical laboratory assistants and related technical occupations
Unit group 33101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Medical laboratory assistants and workers in related technical occupations perform pre-analysis and pre-testing tasks such as collecting blood and other samples, processing specimens, and preparing special chemicals called reagents for use in testing. They conduct routine medical laboratory tests and set up, clean and maintain medical laboratory equipment. They are employed in medical laboratories in hospitals, clinics, research facilities, post-secondary educational institutions and government research laboratories.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- blood bank technician
- clinical laboratory technician
- community health technician - medical laboratory
- histology technician
- laboratory assistant - medical
- medical laboratory aide
- medical laboratory assistant
- medical laboratory helper
- medical laboratory technical assistant
- medical laboratory technician
- phlebotomist
- phlebotomy aide
- renal technician
- technical assistant - medical laboratory
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.