NOC 2021 · 72310 · TEER 2
Carpenters
Unit group 72310 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Carpenters construct, erect, install, maintain and repair structures and components of structures made of wood, wood substitutes, lightweight steel and other materials. They are employed by construction companies, carpentry contractors, and maintenance departments of factories, plants and other establishments, or they may be self-employed. 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.
- access floor specialist carpenter
- apprentice boat carpenter
- apprentice carpenter
- apprentice carpenter-joiner
- boat carpenter
- boat joiner
- boatbuilding apprentice
- bridge carpenter
- building addition carpenter
- building carpenter
- carpenter
- carpenter lead hand
- carpenter rough
- carpenter-joiner
- carpentry repairman/woman
- concrete forms carpenter
- construction carpenter
- construction technician - Canadian Armed Forces
- dock carpenter
- finish carpenter
- floor systems carpenter
- form builder - carpentry
- form carpenter
- framer-carpenter
- framing carpenter
- house carpenter
- interior finish carpenter
- interior finish joiner
- interior systems carpenter
- interior trimmer carpenter
- journeyman/woman carpenter
- log home builder
- log home carpenter
- log home carpenter-builder
- maintenance carpenter
- maintenance carpenter-joiner
- maintenance joiner
- manufactured house carpenter
- metal framer - carpentry
- mill carpenter
- mine carpenter
- plant carpenter
- prefabricated house carpenter
- prefabricated structure carpenter
- railway rolling stock carpenter
- railway rolling stock joiner
- renovation carpenter
- restoration carpenter
- rough carpenter
- ship joiner
- shipbuilding carpenter
- shipbuilding joiner
- sign carpenter
- stage carpenter
- stair builder-carpenter
- stairway carpenter
- steel framer - carpentry
- steel stud framer - carpentry
- studio carpenter
- wood frame carpenter
- wood frame house carpenter
- wood shipwright
- wooden boatbuilder
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.