NOC 94101 · Occupations in manufacturing and utilities

NOC 94101: Foundry workers

TEER

High school and on-the-job training

Median wage (Canada)

$25.00/hr

≈ $49,000/yr full-time

Express Entry (FSW, CEC)

Not skilled (TEER 4–5)

Per IRCC’s TEER rule

What foundry workers do

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.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

Mouldmakers and coremakers
Make and repair sand moulds using patterns, moulding boxes, sand and hand tools following bench, floor or pit moulding methods
Operate ovens to dry moulds
Make cores for use inside moulds to form holes or void spaces in castings using core boxes, sand, hammer and wire or other reinforcing material
Coat cores with protective materials and bake cores in oven
Set up, adjust and operate various mouldmaking and coremaking machines to make sand and ceramics moulds and cores
May pour molten metal into moulds to produce metal castings.
Metal casters
Set up and operate various casting machines to cast ferrous and non-ferrous metal products; hand ladle and pour molten metal into moulds to produce castings.
Foundry furnace operators
Operate furnaces used to melt metals for moulding and casting.

Job titles under NOC 94101

87 job titles are classified here, including bench moulder - foundry, casting machine operator - foundry, ceramic mouldmaker - foundry.

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

Employment requirements

Completion of secondary school is required.
Several weeks of on-the-job training are required.

Foundry workers wages in Canada

Low, median and high hourly wages from Job Bank’s 2025 wage data. Annual figures assume full-time work (1,950 hours a year).

By city
Where	Low	Median	High
Canada	$18.50/hr	$25.00/hr	$34.45/hr
Toronto ON	$17.60/hr	$21.80/hr	$34.54/hr
Québec City Quebec region, QC	$19.95/hr	$28.77/hr	$39.99/hr
Kitchener-Waterloo Kitchener–Waterloo–Barrie region, ON	$18.50/hr	$22.90/hr	$28.78/hr

By province and territory
Where	Low	Median	High
Quebec	$19.95/hr	$28.77/hr	$39.99/hr
Ontario	$18.23/hr	$23.00/hr	$29.29/hr

Using NOC 94101 for your resume or Express Entry profile

IRCC asks you to make sure the main duties listed for your NOC match what you actually did at your job. If they don’t, look for another unit group whose duties do.
Describe your own work in your own words. Recruiters and ATS software look for concrete tools, results and scope, not text copied from the NOC.
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Not in this group

Similar jobs classified under a different NOC code:

Continuous casting operator - primary metal processing (NOC 93100)
Foundry labourer (NOC 95100)
Foundry supervisor (NOC 92010)
Furnace operator - primary metal and mineral products processing (NOC 93100)

Frequently asked questions

What is the NOC code for foundry workers?

Foundry workers are NOC 2021 unit group 94101. Example job titles in this group include bench moulder - foundry, casting machine operator - foundry, ceramic mouldmaker - foundry, die-casting machine operator.

What TEER is NOC 94101?

NOC 94101 is TEER 4 (High school and on-the-job training). Usually requires completion of secondary school, or several weeks of on-the-job training. TEER 4 and 5 work does not count as skilled work experience for Express Entry’s Federal Skilled Worker or Canadian Experience Class programs.