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72999 – Other technical trades and related occupations
Workers in other technical trades occupations repair, service, install, calibrate or fabricate a variety of products. This unit group also includes commercial divers. They are employed by a wide range of establishments, or they may be self-employed. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Aircraft mock-up maker
- Aircraft model maker
- Aircraft patternmaker
- Anvilsmith
- Apprentice saw repairer
- Blacksmith
- Blacksmith - agriculture
- Blacksmith - manufacturing
- Bomb-disposal expert
- Circular saw filer
- Clearance diver
- Commercial diver
- Commercial free-diver
- Commercial scuba diver
- Commercial skin diver
- Deep-sea diver
- Die setter
- Diver
- Diving contractor
- Diving supervisor
- Explosive ordnance detector
- Farm blacksmith
- Farrier
- Forest products saw filer
- Glass calibrator
- Gun repairer
- Gunsmith
- Hammersmith
- Hard-hat diver
- Horseshoer
- Linesman/woman - shipbuilding
- Lock expert
- Lock fitter
- Lock repairer
- Lock repairman/woman
- Lock setter
- Locksmith
- Locksmithing expert
- Loftsman/woman - aircraft manufacturing
- Loftsman/woman - shipbuilding
- Model and mock-up maker
- Model and mock-up maker - aeronautics
- Model and mould maker - concrete products
- Model maker
- Motor vehicle model maker
- Offshore diver
- Patternmaker - aeronautics
- Plaster mould maker - aircraft
- Plaster pattern maker
- Plaster pattern maker - aircraft
- Reclamation diver
- Remote operated vehicle (ROV) operator
- Restoration steeplejack
- Rope access technician (RAT)
- Safe and vault installer-servicer
- Safe and vault repairer
- Safe and vault servicer
- Safe and vault technician
- Safe expert
- Safe maker
- Salvage diver
- Saw doctor
- Saw filer
- Saw fitter
- Saw fitter-filer
- Saw maker
- Saw repairer
- Saw repairman/woman
- Sawmill saw fitter
- Sawsmith
- Scale calibrator
- Scientific instrument calibrator
- Search and rescue diver
- Ship model maker
- Small arms repairer
- Small-aircraft model maker
- Smokestack repairer
- Steeplejack
- Stonework patternmaker
- Template maker
- Template maker - aeronautics
- Template maker - shipbuilding
- Time lock expert
- Toolsmith
- Underwater contractor
- Underwater worker
- Vault repairer
- Vault servicer
- Working model maker - aircraft
- Aircraft patternmaker
- Blacksmith
- Commercial diver
- Die setter
- Explosive ordnance detector
- Farrier
- Gunsmith
- Locksmith
- Reclamation diver
- Restoration steeplejack
- Safe maker
- Saw fitter
- Small arms repairer
- Toolsmith
- Underwater contractor
- Vault repairer
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Gunsmiths
- Fabricate guns and repair and modify firearms according to blueprints or customers' specifications.
Locksmiths
- Repair, install and adjust locks, make keys and change lock combinations.
Safe and vault servicers
- Install, repair and maintain safes and vaults in banks and other establishments.
Saw fitters
- Repair, set and sharpen band saws, chain saws, circular saws and other types of saw blades according to specifications.
Die setters
- Select dies for forging according to work order and specifications; position align and bolt dies to ram and anvil of power presses and hammers.
Commercial divers
- Perform underwater activities related to construction, inspection, search, salvage, repair and photography.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a two- to four-year apprenticeship program in a relevant trade, such as locksmith or saw fitter or college, high school or industry courses combined with several years of related work experience or several years of on-the-job training are required.
- Trade certification for locksmiths is available, but voluntary, in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
- Sawfiler/fitter and sawfitter trade certification is available, but voluntary, in Quebec, British Columbia and the Yukon.
- Provincial trade certification or licensing may be required for other occupations in this unit group.
- Commercial divers must meet the requirements of CSA Standard Z275.4-02, Competency Standard for Diving Operations.
- Commercial divers require an Occupational Diver Certificate of Competency issued by the Diver Certification Board of Canada (DCBC) or qualification earned through a formal education program, training courses in diving or a combination of education and practical experience.
- Commercial divers require certification of competency and a diving medical examination from an approved hyperbaric physician.
- Commercial divers may require military or police diving experience.
- Commercial divers usually require a provincial blaster's licence for the setting and detonation of explosives.
Additional information
- Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
- There is little or no mobility among occupations in this unit group.
Exclusions
- Automotive service technicians (7241)
- Motorcycle, all-terrain vehicle and other related mechanics (72423)
- Police diver (in 42100 Police officers (except commissioned))
- Welders and related machine operators (72106)
- Other small engine and small equipment repairers (72429)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 7 – Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations
- TEER
- 2 – Occupations usually require a college diploma or apprenticeship training of two or more years; or supervisory occupations
- Major group
- 72 – Technical trades and transportation officers and controllers
- Sub-major group
- 729 – Others technical trades
- Minor group
- 7299 – Others technical trades
- Version
- NOC 2021 Version 1.0