NOC 22212: Drafting technologists and technicians

Drafting technologists and technicians prepare engineering designs, drawings and related technical information, such as building information models (BIM), in multidisciplinary engineering teams or in support of engineers, architects or industrial designers, or they may work independently. They are employed by consulting and construction companies, utility, resource and manufacturing companies, all levels of government and by a wide range of other establishments.

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 22212 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 22212

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:

• Drafting technologists
• Develop and prepare engineering designs and drawings from preliminary concepts, sketches, engineering calculations, specification sheets and other data
• Create building information models (BIM), using computer software, to provide digital representations of physical and functional aspects of buildings and other engineering projects
• Operate computer-assisted design (CAD) and drafting workstations
• Develop and prepare design sketches
• Complete documentation packages and produce drawing sets
• Check and verify design drawings to conform to specifications and design data
• Write technical reports
• Prepare contracts and tender documents
• Prepare construction specifications, costs and material estimates
• Supervise and train other technologists, technicians and drafters.
• Drafting technicians
• Develop and prepare engineering drawings, plans, diagrams or layouts from sketches
• Operate computer-assisted drafting equipment or a conventional drafting station.

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

Example job titles

• architectural draftsperson
• building information modelling (BIM) technologist
• computer-aided design and drafting (CADD) technologist
• computer-assisted drafting (CAD) technician
• design and drafting technologist
• drafting office supervisor
• drafting technician
• drafting technologist
• draftsperson
• electrical draftsperson
• electromechanical draftsperson
• electronic draftsperson
• engineering design and drafting technologist
• mechanical draftsperson
• steel detailer - drafting
• structural draftsperson
• structural steel drafter-detailer

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a two- to three-year college program in engineering design and drafting technology or in a related field is usually required for drafting and design technologists.
• Completion of a one- to two-year college program in drafting or completion of a three- to four-year apprenticeship program or four to five years of related experience plus completion of college or industry courses in drafting are usually required for drafting technicians.
• Trade certification for draftspersons is available, but voluntary in Ontario.
• Certification in engineering design and drafting technology or in a related field through provincial associations of engineering/applied science technologists and technicians may be required by employers.
• A period of supervised work experience, usually two years, is required before certification.

Similar jobs with a different code

• 22210Architectural design technologist
• 22300Civil engineering design technologist
• 22310Electrical engineering design technologist
• 22310Electronics engineering design technologist
• 22211Industrial designers
• 22301Mechanical engineering design technologist