NOC 2021 · 94102 · TEER 4
Glass forming and finishing machine operators and glass cutters
Unit group 94102 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Glass forming and finishing machine operators operate multi-function process control machinery or single-function machines to melt, form, cut or finish flat glass, glassware, bottles, and other glass products. Glass cutters cut flat glass of various thicknesses to specified sizes and shapes by hand. They are employed by glass and glass products manufacturing companies.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- annealer - glass products manufacturing
- automatic glass-cutting table operator
- automatic sealing gun operator - glass
- batch plant tender - glass
- beaker tester
- bottle inspector - glass products manufacturing
- bottle machine operator - glass products manufacturing
- bottle maker operator
- bottle maker operator - glass and glass products
- bottle tester
- diamond grinder operator - glass finishing
- diamond wheel edger - glass finishing
- drawing kiln operator - glass forming
- enamel burner - glass products manufacturing
- enamelling furnace operator - glass products manufacturing
- enamelware paint baker - glass products manufacturing
- float chief operator - glass forming
- float operator - glass forming
- forming-cutting operator - glass products
- gatherer - glass products manufacturing
- glass bender
- glass beveller
- glass beveller operator
- glass beveller tender
- glass bonding machine operator
- glass breaker
- glass buffer
- glass chipper
- glass cut-off machine operator
- glass cutter
- glass cutter operator
- glass cutter-framer
- glass drill operator
- glass drill tender
- glass edger
- glass edger operator
- glass edger tender
- glass etcher
- glass finisher
- glass forming operator
- glass forming specialist
- glass furnace operator
- glass furnace setter-operator
- glass furnace set-up operator
- glass grinder
- glass heater
- glass laminator
- glass lathe operator
- glass lehr attendant
- glass lehr operator
- glass lehr tender
- glass marker
- glass melter
- glass mixer
- glass mould cleaner
- glass mould polisher
- glass moulder
- glass polisher
- glass polisher tender
- glass presser
- glass spin mould machine set-up operator
- glass tank furnace operator
- glass temperer
- glass windshield autoclave operator
- glass worker - glass products manufacturing
- glass-annealing furnace tender
- glass-blowing lathe operator
- glass-blowing machine operator
- glass-blowing machine setter
- glass-coating line operator
- glass-decorating machine operator
- glass-drawing machine operator
- glass-edging machine feeder
- glass-finishing machine operator
- glass-forming machine operator
- glass-forming machine setter
- glass-forming machine set-up person
- glass-grinding machine feeder
- glass-pressing and glass-blowing machine operator
- glass-pressing machine operator
- glass-silvering machine operator
- glass-stopper grinder
- glass-tempering furnace operator
- glass-tube-expander operator
- glassware grinder
- glassware-banding machine tender
- glassware-decorating machine operator
- groove grinder - glass
- hand glass cutter
- hand glass edge finisher
- machine operator - glass forming and finishing
- mirror maker
- mirror silverer
- mirror-silvering equipment operator
- neon sign pumper
- neon sign tube bender
- neon tube bender
- neon tube pumper
- ornamental glass production worker
- special glass cutter
- stained glass production worker
- staple cutter - glass products manufacturing
- strapping machine operator - glass manufacturing
- tinted glassware maker
- yardage controller - glass products manufacturing
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
$22.74 an hour
Low $18.00, high $29.40
Where it pays most
- Montréal · Quebec$24.09
- Toronto · Ontario$21.35
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$21.08
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 | $26.07 | $20.00 – $30.33 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $22.00 | $18.50 – $28.72 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Saskatchewan | Not published | Not published | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $20.00 | $17.00 – $25.75 | Undetermined |
| British Columbia | $21.12 | $17.85 – $26.72 | 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 5 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montréal | Quebec | $24.09 | $18.75 – $29.59 | Undetermined |
| Toronto | Ontario | $21.35 | $18.50 – $26.50 | Moderate |
| Kitchener--Waterloo--Barrie | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $21.08 | $17.85 – $26.72 | Moderate |
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.