NOC 95105: Labourers in textile processing and cutting

Labourers in textile processing perform a variety of manual duties to assist in processing fibres into yarn or thread, or to assist in weaving, knitting, bleaching, dyeing or finishing textile fabrics or other textile products. Labourers in textile cutting cut fabric, fur, or leather to make parts for garments, linens, shoes and other articles. Labourers in textile processing and cutting are employed by clothing and textile manufacturers and other manufacturers of fabric products such as leather and fur.

Express Entry eligibility

• Skilled work (TEER 0 to 3): no, TEER 5 does not count for Express Entry.
• Canadian Experience Class: does not count.
• Federal Skilled Worker Program: does not count.
• 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 5: Occupations that usually need short-term work demonstration and no formal education. Every program has other requirements too, such as language test results and, for FSW, a points test.

Category-based draws

NOC 95105 is not on any of IRCC’s occupation category lists. You can still be invited in general, Canadian Experience Class or other program draws if you qualify through other experience.

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

CRS points for work in NOC 95105

None. Work in TEER 4 and 5 occupations earns no Canadian work points in the CRS.

See Canadian work points and the median-wage rule.

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Labourers in textile processing
• Load and off-load machines
• Clean textile machines and work areas
• Push carts, trucks, or cans of fibres from one work area to another
• Assist machine operators and other textile workers as required.
• Fabric cutters
• Place patterns on top of layers of fabric and cut fabric using electric or manual knives, cutters or computer numerically controlled (CNC) cutting devices
• Adjust cutting technique to type of fabric and style of garment
• May cut fabric samples.
• Fur cutters
• Cut fur skins in diagonal strips to specified length and shape of pelt using furrier's knives and cutters
• Number pelts to indicate their location on pattern
• May sort or match skins, and may prepare fur samples.
• Leather cutters
• Select leather and cutting dies for leather goods and shoe parts according to specifications
• Position leather on cutting bed of machine, maximizing usage according to skin grain, skin flaws and skin stretch
• Operate clicker or punch press to stretch leather
• Operate machine to strip and cut leather or cut single leather skins by hand to make leather products
• May cut leather samples.

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

Example job titles

• clothing cutter - clothing manufacturing
• doffer
• dyeing and finishing machine loader
• fabric cutter - fabric products manufacturing
• fur cutter
• glove cutter
• helper - textiles
• leather cutter
• sample cutter
• shoe cutter
• textile machine cleaner
• waste machine feeder
• yarn handler

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education may be required.
• Experience as a fabric, fur or leather cutter is required for fabric, fur or leather sample cutters.
• On-the-job training is provided for some occupations in this unit group.

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