NOC 2021 · minor groupMostly one sector2 industries tagged

Manufacturing and processing engineers

29,045 people in Canada, 43% of them in Manufacturing. Between 40% and 70% of the people doing this work in one sector. The others exist everywhere else — which usually means most businesses buy this work in rather than employing it.

EmployedA
29,045
Canada, 2021 Census
Sectors employing itA
10
of 20, at 1% or more
Largest sectorA
43%
Manufacturing
Median pay
$100,006
across 3 job titles
01

Where this work is done

The measured share of everyone in this occupation, by sector. It leans to one sector without belonging to it.

Manufacturing 43%
Professional, scientific and technical services 26%
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 8.1%
Wholesale trade 3.8%
Utilities 3.2%
Public administration 2.9%
Transportation and warehousing 2.6%
Construction 2.5%
Retail trade 1.8%
Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services 1%
02

The jobs inside it

Statistics Canada counts these together as one minor group. These are the job titles underneath.

Chemical engineers 21320Industrial and manufacturing engineers 21321Metallurgical and materials engineers 21322
03

The industries that employ it

Which NAICS industries these people work in. The sector above is measured; naming the industry group inside it is judgmentUNVERIFIED, made because the measured data shows this job is concentrated.

Manufacturing and processing engineers work inside the plants they design for.

IndustryCodeEstablishments · CA
Architectural, engineering and related services541320,474
Manufacturing31-3351,934

Market records in those industries

AEC Design & Engineering Software (5413)One thing must be trueGeospatial & GIS Platforms (541370)One thing must be trueConsumer Packaged Goods Brand Operation (311)Structure decidesDigital Shelf & Product Content Software (311)Structure decidesFood Safety & Traceability Software (311)Execution decidesPet Food Manufacturing Plant (3111)Structure decidesOilseed Crushing & Flour Milling Plant (3112)Structure decidesCraft Chocolate & Confectionery Maker (3113)One thing must be trueFrozen & Preserved Food Processing (3114)Structure decidesDairy Processing Plant (3115)Structure decidesSmall-Scale Meat Processing (3116)Structure decidesSeafood Processing Plant (3117)One thing must be trueCraft Bakery Operation (3118)One thing must be trueCoffee Roasting & Specialty Food Manufacturing (3119)One thing must be trueCraft Beverage Production (3121)One thing must be trueTobacco Product Manufacturing (3122)One thing must be true

Sources for this page

The sector split is a count; the industry tag is a reading of it. Statistics Canada publishes this cross-tabulation against the twenty NAICS sectors and no finer, so everything above the industry table is measured and the table itself is judgment — offered because "which industry employs a veterinarian" has a useful answer that the published data stops just short of.