NOC 95106: Labourers in food and beverage processing

Labourers in food and beverage processing perform material handling, clean-up, packaging and other elemental activities related to food and beverage processing. They are employed in fruit and vegetable processing plants, dairies, flour mills, bakeries, sugar refineries, meat plants, breweries and other food and beverage processing and packaging plants.

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 95106 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 95106

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:

• Transport raw materials, finished products and packaging materials throughout plant and warehouse manually, or with powered equipment
• Measure and dump ingredients into hoppers of mixing and grinding machines or mobile tank trucks
• Feed and unload food and beverage processing machines
• Feed flattened boxes into forming machines to construct containers
• Remove filled containers from conveyors and manually pack goods into bags, boxes or other containers
• Clean work areas and equipment
• Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
• Assist process control and machine operators in performing their duties.

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

Example job titles

• bottle-washing machine tender - food and beverage processing
• brewery labourer
• candy packer
• dairy helper - food and beverage processing
• food processing labourer
• frozen food packer
• meat packager
• nut sorter - food and beverage processing
• production helper - food and beverage processing
• tobacco processing labourer

Employment requirements

• Some secondary school education may be required.

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