NOC 2021 · 72104 · TEER 2
Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters
Unit group 72104 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters fabricate, assemble, fit and install steel or other metal components for buildings, bridges, tanks, towers, boilers, pressure vessels and other similar structures and products. They are employed in structural steel, boiler and platework fabrication plants and by heavy machinery manufacturing and shipbuilding companies. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- apprentice fitter - shipbuilding
- apprentice metal fabricator
- apprentice metal shipwright
- apprentice shipfitter
- apprentice ship's plater
- apprentice steel fabricator
- apprentice structural metal and platework fabricator
- apprentice structural steel and platework fitter
- apprentice structural steel fabricator
- bridge and girder plater
- fabricator - structural metal
- fitter - metal fabrication
- fitter - shipbuilding
- fitter - structural metal fabrication
- fitter lead hand - structural metal and platework
- marine steel fitter
- metal fabricator
- metal fabricator - structural metal and platework
- metal fabricator (fitter)
- metal preparation lead hand - structural metal and platework
- metal shipwright
- plater
- plater - shipbuilding
- plater-welder
- platework fabricator
- platework fabricator and fitter
- platework fitter
- shaper, structural steel plates
- shipbuilding fitter
- shipfitter
- shipfitter apprentice
- ship's plater
- steel fabricator
- steel fabricator - structural metal and platework
- steel fitter - metal platework
- steel fitter - structural metal
- steel plate shaper - ships
- structural metal and platework fabricator
- structural metal and platework fabricator apprentice
- structural metal and platework fitter
- structural metal and platework fitter-welder
- structural metal and platework layout developer
- structural metal and platework layout marker
- structural metal and platework plater
- structural metal fabricator
- structural metal fitter
- structural metal fitter-assembler
- structural metal layout marker
- structural metal worker
- structural steel and platework fitter
- structural steel fabricator
- structural steel fitter
- structural steel plate shaper
- structural steel plate worker-fitter
- structural steelwork and platework fitter
- tube fitter - structural metal and platework
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.