Are you a Petroleum Engineer? Are you a contractor or a supervisor in the oil and gas drilling services? Or are you an oil and gas well driller or chemical process operator? Then you might consider going to Canada where the future looks bright in the oil industry. Latest surveys reveal that “people who work in the oil path and those with the ability to hire and fire will get a bigger salary bump next year compared to other workers in Canada.”
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The list of occupations eligible to apply for Canadian immigration under the Federal Skilled Workers Program (FSWP) include the following:
01 Engineering managers
02 Financial and investment analysts
03 Geoscientists and oceanographers
04 Civil engineers
05 Mechanical engineers
06 Chemical engineers
07 Mining engineers
08 Geological engineers
09 Petroleum engineers
10 Aerospace engineers
11 Computer engineers (except software engineers/designers)
12 Land surveyors
13 Computer programmers and interactive media developers
14 Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics
15 Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety
16 Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
17 Physiotherapists
18 Occupational Therapists
19 Medical laboratory technologists
20 Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists’ assistants
21 Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists
22 Medical radiation technologists
23 Medical sonographers
24 Cardiology technicians and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists
Other jobs in the Federal Skilled Trades Program (FSTP) include the following:
Group A – 17 jobs with a moderate labour market need, with sub-caps of 100 applications each
01 Contractors and supervisors, electrical trades and telecommunications occupations
02 Contractors and supervisors, carpentry trades
03 Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers
04 Carpenters
05 Contractors and supervisors, mechanic trades
06 Contractors and supervisors, heavy equipment operator crews
07 Supervisors, logging and forestry
08 Supervisors, mining and quarrying
09 Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling services
10 Logging machinery operators
11 Agricultural service contractors, farm supervisors and specialized livestock workers
12 Supervisors, mineral and metal processing
13 Supervisors, petroleum, gas and chemical processing and utilities
14 Supervisors, plastic and rubber products manufacturing
15 Central control and process operators, mineral and metal processing
16 Power engineers and power systems operators
17 Water and waste treatment plant operators
Group B – 26 in-demand jobs with no sub-caps
01 Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors
02 Sheet metal workers
03 Structural metal and plate work fabricators and fitters
04 Ironworkers
05 Welders and related machine operators
06 Electricians (except industrial and power system)
07 Industrial electricians
08 Power system electricians
09 Electrical power line and cable workers
10 Telecommunications line and cable workers
11 Telecommunications installation and repair workers
12 Plumbers
13 Steamfitters, pipefitters and sprinkler system installers
14 Gas fitters
15 Construction millwrights and industrial mechanics
16 Heavy-duty equipment mechanics
17 Refrigeration and air conditioning mechanics
18 Railway carmen/women
19 Aircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectors
20 Elevator constructors and mechanics
21 Crane operators
22 Drillers and blasters – surface, mining, quarrying and construction
23 Water well drillers
24 Underground production and development miners
25 Oil and gas well drillers, servicers, testers and related workers
26 Petroleum, gas and chemical process operators
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