NOC 2021 · 94129 · TEER 4
Other wood processing machine operators
Unit group 94129 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Other wood processing machine operators operate and tend wood processing equipment and machines to remove bark from logs, produce wood chips, preserve and treat wood, and produce waferboards, particleboards, hardboards, insulation boards, plywood, veneers and similar wood products. They are employed in sawmills, woodrooms of pulp mills, planing mills, wood treatment plants, waferboard plants and other wood processing plants.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- automatic veneer clipper tender - wood processing
- barker operator
- barking machine operator - wood processing
- chip screen tender - wood processing
- chip-mixing machine tender - wood processing
- chipper operator
- clipper operator - wood processing
- core layer operator - wood processing
- core-laying machine tender - wood processing
- debarker operator - wood processing
- dip tank tender - wood processing
- drop sorter operator - wood processing
- drum barker tender - wood processing
- drying kiln operator - wood processing
- edge gluer - wood processing
- excelsior machine tender
- flaker operator - wood processing
- fuel log maker - wood processing
- hardboard press operator - wood processing
- hardboard-forming line operator
- hardboard-grinding machine operator
- hardboard-oiling machine tender
- hot press operator - wood processing
- humidifier tender - wood processing
- hydraulic barker operator - wood processing
- incising machine tender - wood processing
- insulation board press tender
- jointer tender - wood processing
- lathe spotter - wood processing
- layup machine operator - wood processing
- log cooker - wood processing
- log vat tender - wood processing
- lumber drop sorter - wood processing
- lumber kiln operator
- lumber sorting machine operator - wood processing
- multiple drum sander operator
- panel-groover operator - wood processing
- panel-sanding machine operator - wood processing
- particleboard line operator
- particleboard-forming machine operator
- particleboard-sizing saw tender
- patcher operator - wood processing
- plywood and veneer patcher and repairer
- plywood bundler machine operator
- plywood panel assembler
- plywood panel groover operator - wood processing
- plywood patcher machine operator
- plywood press operator
- plywood-sizing saw tender - wood processing
- ring barker operator - wood processing
- sander operator - wood processing
- scarf gluer - wood processing
- scarfing machine tender - wood processing
- tempering plant tender
- timber treating tank operator
- veneer clipper - wood processing
- veneer cutter - wood processing
- veneer dryer tender
- veneer jointer - wood processing
- veneer jointer operator - wood processing
- veneer lathe operator
- veneer matcher - wood processing
- veneer patcher - wood processing
- veneer reel tender - wood processing
- veneer slicer-lather - wood processing
- veneer splicer tender - wood processing
- veneer strip cut-off sawyer - wood processing
- veneer taper - wood processing
- veneer-slicing machine operator - wood processing
- waferboard press operator
- wood flour miller
- wood particle dryer tender
- wood particles mixer-dryer tender
- wood treater operator
- wood treating worker - wood preserving
- wood-oiling machine operator - wood processing
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
$25.72 an hour
Low $17.50, high $37.00
Where it pays most
- Edmonton · Alberta$37.05
- Lower Mainland · British Columbia$36.09
- Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House · Alberta$35.57
- North Coast · British Columbia$35.22
- Vancouver Island and Coast · British Columbia$34.79
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 | $25.54 | $20.50 – $30.32 | Undetermined |
| Quebec | $27.50 | $20.00 – $46.00 | Moderate |
| Ontario | $22.85 | $18.06 – $35.13 | Moderate |
| Manitoba | $25.02 | $20.58 – $30.99 | Limited |
| Saskatchewan | $27.65 | $19.80 – $33.96 | Undetermined |
| Alberta | $35.07 | $27.69 – $40.94 | Moderate |
| British Columbia | $33.13 | $26.25 – $42.73 | 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 33 economic regions where Job Bank publishes a wage or a rated outlook, of 72.
| Where | Province | Median hourly | Low to high | Outlook 2025–2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbellton--Miramichi | New Brunswick | $26.99 | $20.16 – $31.25 | Undetermined |
| Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Bas-Saint-Laurent | Quebec | $26.00 | $19.00 – $32.85 | Moderate |
| Capitale-Nationale | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Chaudière-Appalaches | Quebec | $23.00 | $19.00 – $32.40 | Moderate |
| Estrie | Quebec | $26.07 | $21.19 – $32.27 | Good |
| Centre-du-Québec | Quebec | $22.88 | $19.31 – $25.12 | Good |
| Montérégie | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Montréal | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laval | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Laurentides | Quebec | $25.96 | $21.00 – $31.14 | Good |
| Outaouais | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Quebec | $27.94 | $23.55 – $36.52 | Moderate |
| Mauricie | Quebec | $25.94 | $21.96 – $32.18 | Good |
| Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean | Quebec | $24.85 | $20.43 – $31.67 | Good |
| Côte-Nord | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Nord-du-Québec | Quebec | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Kingston--Pembroke | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Muskoka--Kawarthas | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Toronto | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Hamilton--Niagara Peninsula | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| London | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Good |
| Northeast | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Northwest | Ontario | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Banff--Jasper--Rocky Mountain House | Alberta | $35.57 | $28.11 – $42.67 | Moderate |
| Edmonton | Alberta | $37.05 | $30.42 – $45.73 | Moderate |
| Athabasca--Grande Prairie--Peace River | Alberta | Not published | Not published | Moderate |
| Vancouver Island and Coast | British Columbia | $34.79 | $27.61 – $41.14 | Undetermined |
| Lower Mainland | British Columbia | $36.09 | $28.43 – $47.40 | Good |
| Thompson--Okanagan | British Columbia | $34.22 | $28.40 – $42.99 | Good |
| Kootenay | British Columbia | $34.71 | $30.85 – $45.45 | Undetermined |
| Cariboo | British Columbia | $32.72 | $27.67 – $41.08 | Moderate |
| North Coast | British Columbia | $35.22 | $27.71 – $45.71 | Undetermined |
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 Labour Force Survey (2023-2024) · Small Area Estimation (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.