The Hard-to-Fill Skills (HFS) Pilot is a three-year pilot under the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) that will enable eligible employers to recruit foreign workers in hard-to-fill intermediate-skilled occupations and entry level occupations. The SINP will issue nominations under this Pilot.
The pilot will be open for employers to submit a Job Approval Letter beginning December 15, 2021, and for foreign workers to submit an application to SINP for the HFS Pilot beginning January 15, 2022.
More information will be posted on the SINP website in the near future.
The list of eligible occupations is as follows:
- 1521 – Shippers and receivers
- 1525 – Dispatchers
- 3413 – Nurse aides, orderlies and patient services associates
- 3414 – Other assisting occupations in support of health services
- 4412 – Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations
- 6513 – Food and beverage servers
- 6525 – Hotel front desk clerk
- 6731 – Light duty cleaners
- 6711 – Food counter attendants, kitchen helpers and related support occupations
- 6733 – Janitors, caretakers and building superintendents
- 7465 – Material handlers
- 7511 – Transport truck drivers
- 7521 – Heavy equipment operations (except crane)
- 7611 – Construction trades helpers and labourers
- 8431 – General farm workers
- 9416 – Metalworking and forging machine operations
- 9431 – Sawmill machine operations
- 9461 – Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
- 9526 – Mechanical assemblers and inspectors
- 9536 – Industrial painters, coaters and metal finishing process operators
- 9612 – Labourers in metal fabrication
- 9617 – Labourers in food and beverage processing
- 9619 – Other labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities
