Express Entry Now Allows Heavy Equipment Operators To Enter Canada
The Federal Skilled Worker (FSW) program of the Express Entry system now permits foreigners who operate heavy machinery to immigrate to Canada.
On November 16 of last year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) added 16 additional positions to its list of qualifying vocations, resulting in a revision to the FSW that made that possible.
On the same day that the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2021 went into effect, IRCC increased the number of qualifying occupations under the FSW to 359 from 336.
The 16 new careers are all considered to be ones that require a college degree, fewer than two years of apprenticeship training, or more than six months of on-the-job training.
The complete list of recently added positions on the list of professions qualified for the FSW is as follows:
- Payroll administrators, NOC 13102
- Dental assisting and dental laboratory assistants, NOC 33100
- Nurse assistants, orderlies, and patient service associates, NOC 33102
- Elementary and secondary NOC 43100 school assistants for teachers
- Sheriffs and bailiffs: NOC 43200
- Correctional service officers, NOC 43201
- NOC 43202 officers responsible for enforcing regulations and bylaws
- Estheticians, electrologists, and allied professions, NOC 63211
- Installers and servicers for residential and commercial clients, NOC 73200
- Pesticide and fumigator NOC 73202
- NOC 73209 Other service providers and mechanics
- Transport truck drivers, NOC 73300
- NOC 73301 drivers of buses and subways and additional transit agencies
- Heavy machinery operators, NOC 73400
- Aircraft assemblers and aircraft assembly, NOC 93200
In Canada, there is a high demand for people who can operate the heavy machinery used in the development and maintenance of highways, bridges, airports, gas and oil pipelines, tunnels, buildings, and other structures, as well as in surface mining and quarrying operations and material handling.
Jobs For Heavy Equipment Operators Are Numerous In Canada
In mid-January, Indeed.ca listed 2,707 positions for heavy equipment operators across Canada, and according to Job Bank, these employees make an average yearly salary of $58,500 based on a regular work week.
They frequently work for construction firms, heavy equipment contractors, public works agencies, pipeline, logging, cargo-handling, and other businesses.
In Canada, there is a severe labor shortage in the construction sector.
According to a story in Daily Commercial News, Mary Van Buren, president of the Canadian Building Association (CCA), said, “We’ve moved from a shortage to a crisis, not only for Canada’s economy but for the construction sector.” “As of September or October, we had roughly 93,000 open jobs.”
According to Daily Commercial News, Paul de Jong, president of the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada (PCAC), said that every single PCAC member company is struggling due to a labor shortage.
Because a project owner will hire a contractor to complete a project and ask for a labor plan, the contractor may experience a delay in the scope of work if the contractor is unable to provide an airtight labor plan, he or she reportedly said: “Not only is that a frustration in terms of the practicality of it all. It actually becomes a serious problem with respect to the investment climate.”
For the upcoming three years, Job Bank rates the prospects for heavy equipment operators as moderate to good.
Express Entry, however, provides a means for companies to find eligible foreign nationals to fill heavy equipment operator positions in Canada as well as a means for qualified foreign nationals to obtain permanent residency here.
Heavy equipment operators in most Canadian provinces have moderate to good employment prospects over the next three years, according to Job Bank, the federal government’s job board.
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