NOC 2021 · 94101 · TEER 4
Foundry workers
Unit group 94101 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Foundry workers make foundry moulds and cores by hand or machine, cast molten metal, and operate furnaces in the foundry industry. They are employed by metal foundries and foundry departments of metal products manufacturing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- ammunition caster - foundry
- apprentice moulder - foundry
- automatic casting machine operator - foundry
- automatic moulding machine operator - foundry
- bench coremaker - foundry
- bench moulder - foundry
- brass caster
- bullet moulder - foundry
- casting machine operator - foundry
- centrifugal casting machine tender - foundry
- ceramic mouldmaker - foundry
- channel furnace operator - foundry
- cope and drag pinlift operator - foundry
- copper caster - foundry
- core extruder - foundry
- core machine operator - foundry
- core setter - foundry
- coremaking machine operator - foundry
- core-sand-mixer - foundry
- cupola furnace operator - foundry
- custom moulder - foundry
- die-casting machine operator
- die-casting machine setter - foundry
- die-casting machine set-up man/woman - foundry
- die-casting machine tender - foundry
- dry-sand moulder - foundry
- electric furnace operator - foundry
- floor moulder - foundry
- foundry furnace operator
- foundry mouldmaker
- foundry pourer
- foundry sand mixer
- foundry worker
- furnace operator - foundry
- granular aluminum caster - foundry
- grid-caster operator - foundry
- hand lead caster - foundry
- hand mouldmaker - foundry
- hand sand-core maker - foundry
- hot-box moulder - foundry
- hunter machine operator - foundry
- induction furnace operator - foundry
- investment caster - foundry
- iron caster - foundry
- iron moulder - foundry
- job moulder - foundry
- lead casting machine operator
- lead shot caster - foundry
- lost pattern caster - foundry
- lost wax caster - foundry
- manual moulder
- melter - foundry
- metal caster - foundry
- metal frame moulder - foundry
- mould caster - foundry
- mould setter - foundry
- moulding and coremaking machine setter - foundry
- moulding sand mixer - foundry
- ornamental caster - foundry
- pattern gater
- pattern moulder - foundry
- pellet maker - foundry
- permanent mould operator - foundry
- pipe coremaker - foundry
- pit moulder
- Roto-lift operator - foundry
- sand control operator - foundry
- sand coremaker
- sand floor moulder - foundry
- sand mill operator - foundry
- sand moulder
- sand processing operator - foundry
- sand system operator - foundry
- sand-slinger operator - foundry
- shell core maker - foundry
- shell mould assembler - foundry
- shell moulder - foundry
- shot maker - foundry
- sintering press tender - foundry
- squeezer machine operator - foundry
- squeezer moulder - foundry
- strand operator - foundry
- vessel operator - foundry
- wax-pattern assembler and repairer
- wax-pattern assembler and repairer - foundry
- wax-pattern mouldmaker - foundry
- white-metal caster - foundry
What it pays, and where it is hiring
Job Bank publishes a wage estimate and a three-year employment outlook for each occupation, region by region. Both are below as published — where an estimate is missing from the source it is missing here too, because the alternative is inventing one.
Across Canada
$25.00 an hour
Low $18.50, high $34.45
Where it pays most
- Chaudière-Appalaches · Quebec$28.50
- Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie · Ontario$22.90
- Toronto · Ontario$21.80
Economic regions only. A province’s figure is an average over the regions inside it, so including one would rank a province above its own best region and read as a finding.
By province and territory
| Where | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newfoundland and Labrador | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Prince Edward Island | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nova Scotia | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| New Brunswick | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $28.77 | $19.95 – $39.99 | Good |
| Ontario | $23.00 | $18.23 – $29.29 | Limited |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very good |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Yukon Territory | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Northwest Territories | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Nunavut | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
By economic region
The 15 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $28.50 | $21.74 – $34.50 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.80 | $17.60 – $34.54 | Limited |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | $22.90 | $18.50 – $28.78 | Undetermined |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Winnipeg | Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Very good |
Job Bank rates employment prospects for each occupation in each economic region from very good to very limited over 2025–2027, and says “undetermined” where it has not got enough to rate. It is an assessment of prospects, not a count of vacancies.
The estimates on this page come from Employment Insurance Survey Data (2023-2024).
Job Bank publishes an estimate for 24,364 of the 44,376 occupation-and-place pairs in this release. The rest are suppressed rather than modelled, and appear here as not published.
Wage estimates from the 2025 Wages release, revised 19 November 2025; employment outlooks from 2025-2027 Employment Outlooks - NOC 2021, released 8 December 2025. Both are updated annually. Estimates for different regions come from different surveys, so comparing two regions is exactly as sound as Job Bank’s own regional comparison and no more.
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank wages; Employment and Social Development Canada — Job Bank 3-year employment outlooks. 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.