NOC 22211: Industrial designers

Industrial designers conceptualize and produce designs for manufactured products. They are employed by manufacturing industries and private design firms or they may be self-employed.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): yes, TEER 2.
• Canadian Experience Class: counts as skilled Canadian work (1 year in the last 3 years).
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: counts as skilled work (1 year of continuous work in the last 10 years).
• Federal Skilled Trades Program: not one of the eligible trades.
• High-wage occupation (from November 3, 2026): no. No high-wage add-on, and a job offer in it earns no CRS points.

TEER 2: Occupations that usually need a college diploma, an apprenticeship of 2 or more years, or supervisory duties. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 22211 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws.

Category lists checked on canada.ca on 2026-10-17. IRCC category-based selection

CRS points for work in NOC 22211

Skilled Canadian work in this occupation earns the standard points, the same before and after November 3, 2026, with no high-wage add-on:

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Consult with client, engineers or production specialists to establish product requirements
• Analyze the intended use of product and user preferences
• Conduct research into cost, properties of production materials and methods of production
• Develop manual and computer-assisted design (CAD) concepts, sketches or models for approval
• Prepare manufacturing drawings, specifications and guidelines for production and construct prototype of design
• Consult with engineers and production staff during manufacturing stage.

For Express Entry your duties must match the lead statement and most of the main duties above.

Example job titles

• furniture designer
• industrial design consultant
• industrial designer
• industrial products designer
• product designer

Employment requirements

• A university degree in industrial design, architecture, engineering or A college diploma in industrial design is required.
• Creative ability, as demonstrated by a portfolio of work, is required.

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