NOC 2021 · 74205 · TEER 4
Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers
Unit group 74205 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Public works maintenance equipment operators and related workers operate vehicles and equipment to maintain streets, highways and sewer systems and operate trucks to collect garbage and recyclable materials. This unit group also includes workers who clear vegetation close to power lines. They are employed by municipal, provincial and federal public works departments, private contractors under contract with government public works departments and private companies involved in the collection of refuse and recyclable materials.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- collection truck driver - public works
- drain roto servicer - public works
- electrical forester
- equipment operator - municipal public work
- garbage collector - driver
- garbage truck driver
- garbage truck driver - public works
- highway snow removal equipment operator
- highway snowplow operator
- maintenance equipment operator - public works
- mechanical sweeper operator - public works
- municipal maintenance equipment operator
- municipal servicer drain roto
- power sweeper operator - public works
- public works maintenance equipment operator
- recycling truck driver
- recycling truck driver - public works
- refuse truck driver - public works
- road snowplow operator - public works
- salt truck operator
- salt truck operator - public works
- sand spreader operator
- sand spreader operator - public works
- sanding truck operator - public works
- sanitation truck driver
- sewer flusher operator-driver - public works
- sewer jet cleaner operator - public works
- sewer jet machine operator - public works
- sewer-flushing truck operator
- sewer-flushing truck operator - public works
- sewer-pipe-cleaning machine operator - public works
- snow removal equipment operator - public works
- sprinkling truck driver - public works
- street flusher operator
- street flusher operator - public works
- street sprinkler operator - public works
- street sweeper operator
- street sweeper operator - public works
- urban snow removal equipment operator - public works
- utility arborist
- utility forester
- utility tree trimmer
- utility tree worker
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.