The three areas collaborating within the federal Rural Neighborhood Immigration Pilot (RCIP) have introduced their 2026 precedence sectors and occupations—with a number of overlaps.
To acquire everlasting residence by way of the RCIP, candidates are required to have a job provide from an employer designated by the neighborhood, in an eligible occupation.
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Your occupation’s TEER class–proven within the second digit of your Nationwide Occupational Classification (NOC) code–determines the language requirements it’s essential to meet. Extra data to observe.
On this article, we look at the sectors and 25 occupations every area collaborating within the RCIP has chosen to prioritize in 2026.
Taking part areas in Manitoba embody:
- Altona/Rhineland;
- Brandon; and
- Steinbach.
You should still be eligible for consideration below the RCIP when you’ve got a job provide in an occupation not on a area’s checklist of precedence occupations.
Altona/Rhineland
The Altona/Rhineland area, which consists of the City of Alton and surrounding Rural Municipality of Rhineland, has chosen the sectors listed beneath as excessive precedence in 2026:
- Training, regulation and social, neighborhood and authorities providers;
- Gross sales and providers;
- Trades, transport, and gear operators;
- Pure sources and agriculture;
- Manufacturing and utilities; and
- Well being.
The yr prior, the Altona/Rhineland area had 5 precedence sectors (the primary 5 on the checklist), with the well being sector being a brand new addition in 2026.
Under is the area’s checklist of 25 occupations (and related NOCs) designated as excessive precedence in 2026:
- Agricultural service contactors and farm supervisors (82030)
- Binding and ending machine operators (94152)
- Cooks (63200)
- Customer support representatives – monetary establishments (64400)
- Drafting technologists and technicians (22212)
- Early childhood educators and assistants (42202)
- Meals service supervisors (62020)
- Heavy-duty gear mechanics (72401)
- Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and associated employees (94141)
- Industrial painters, coaters and metallic ending course of operators (94213)
- Labourers in meals and beverage processing (95106)
- Livestock labourers (85100)
- Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors (72100)
- Materials handlers (75101)
- Nurse aids, orderlies and affected person service associates (33102)
- Different labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities (95109)
- Printing press operators (73401)
- Course of management and machine operators, meals and beverage processing (94140)
- Mechanical assemblers and inspectors (94204)
- Metalworking and forging machine operators (94105)
- Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses (31301)
- Specialised livestock employees and farm equipment operators (84120)
- Supervisors, meals and beverage processing (92012)
- Technical gross sales specialists – wholesale commerce (62100)
- Welders and associated machine operators (72106)
Altona/Rhineland has not printed specifics on job provide wage necessities.
In keeping with the official RCIP web site for Altona and Rhineland, “suggestions can be issued on a first-come, first-served foundation all year long.”
The area’s employers designated below the RCIP in 2026 might be discovered right here; new employers can be added as they obtain designation.
Brandon
In 2026, Manitoba’s second-largest metropolis—positioned in southwestern Manitoba on the Assiniboine River—is prioritizing employees with job gives within the following high-priority sectors:
- Well being;
- Trades, transport and gear operators;
- Manufacturing and utilities;
- Pure and utilized sciences;
- Training, regulation and social, neighborhood and authorities providers; and
- Pure sources and agriculture.
The sectors chosen by town of Brandon this yr largely mirror these chosen in 2025, with the one change in 2026 being the addition of a brand new sector: pure sources and agriculture.
To see which occupations Brandon is prioritizing below the RCIP in 2026, you’ll be able to examine the expandable checklist beneath.
- Agricultural service contractors and farm supervisors (82030)
- Automotive and heavy truck and gear elements installers and servicers (74203)
- Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers (72410)
- Carpenters (72310)
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians (22300)
- Building millwrights and industrial mechanics (72400)
- Building trades helpers and labourers (75110)
- Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants (33100)
- Dental hygienists and dental therapists (32111)
- Dietitians and nutritionists (31121)
- *Early childhood educators and assistants (42202)
- Electrical and electronics engineers (21310)
- Common practitioners and household physicians (31102)
- Heavy-duty gear mechanics (72401)
- Industrial butchers and meat cutters, poultry preparers and associated employees (94141)
- Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics (22312)
- Machinists and machining and tooling inspectors (72100)
- Medical radiation technologists (32121)
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians (22301)
- Nurse aides, orderlies and affected person service associates (33102)
- Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses (31301)
- Specialists in medical and laboratory medication (31100)
- Specialists in surgical procedure (31101)
- Consumer help technicians (22221)
- Heating, refrigeration and air-con mechanics (72402)
Common observe: Occupations not listed above, that fall below precedence sectors, could also be thought of if employers can reveal vital profit to the neighborhood (e.g., a civil engineering place= vital financial profit, or a dentist place= vital well being profit).
*Town of Brandon notes that below this NOC code, solely the next positions are eligible:
- Baby Care Assistant;
- Early Childhood Educator II (ECE II); and
- Early Childhood Educator III (ECE III).
To qualify below the RCIP, a job provide should characteristic a wage that meets or exceeds the Canada Job Financial institution’s minimal wage for that particular NOC code.
You may view the checklist of Brandon-based employers designated below the RCIP in 2026 right here, which can be up to date recurrently.
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Steinbach
The fast-growing metropolis of Steinbach, tucked away in southeastern Manitoba, has chosen six sectors to be prioritized below the RCIP in 2026:
- Well being;
- Training, regulation and social, neighborhood and authorities providers;
- Gross sales and repair;
- Trades, transport and gear operators;
- Manufacturing and utilities; and
- Pure sources and agriculture.
Steinbach’s 2026 precedence sectors carefully match these of the earlier yr, with the inclusion of pure sources and agriculture being the one change.
You may view the 25 occupations (and related NOCs) Steinbach is prioritizing below the RCIP in 2026 beneath.
- Accounting and associated clerks (14200)
- Plane mechanics and plane inspectors (72404)
- Auto physique collision, refinishing and glass technicians and injury restore estimators (72411)
- Automotive service technicians, truck and bus mechanics and mechanical repairers (72410)
- Civil engineers (21300)
- Building estimators (22303)
- Dental assistants and dental laboratory assistants (33100)
- Drafting technologists and technicians (22212)
- Early childhood educators and assistants (42202)
- Meals service supervisors (62020)
- Common constructing upkeep employees and constructing superintendents (73201)
- *Heavy-duty gear mechanics (72401)
- House help employees, caregivers and associated occupations (44101)
- Insurance coverage adjusters and claims examiners (12201)
- Nurse aides, orderlies and affected person service associates (33102)
- Pharmacist (31120)
- Skilled occupations in promoting, advertising and public relations (11202)
- Registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses (31301)
- Residential and business installers and servicers (73200)
- Roofers and shinglers (73110)
- **Software program engineers and designers (21231)
- Specialised livestock employees and farm equipment operators (84120)
- Public and environmental well being and security professionals (21120)
- Welders and associated machine operators (72106)
- Woodworking machine operators (94124)
*Underneath this NOC, particularly agricultural gear technicians are being sought.
**Underneath this NOC, particularly software program and IT challenge managers are being sought.
Steinbach has not launched data concerning job provide wage necessities.
Click on right here to view the checklist of designated employers below the RCIP in 2026.
Who’s eligible below the RCIP?
The Rural Neighborhood Immigration Pilot (RCIP) is a five-year pilot launched in 2025 (set to run out in 2030). It assists rural communities outdoors Quebec in addressing labour shortages.
There are 14 collaborating communities, every of which might choose as much as six precedence sectors and 25 precedence occupations to assist fill gaps within the labour market.
That is an employer-led PR pathway, that means candidates will need to have a job provide from an employer designated by the neighborhood as a way to qualify.
The employer recommends you to the neighborhood, and if accredited, you might apply to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for PR.
Past a job provide, candidates should additionally meet different eligibility standards associated to:
Work expertise: A minimal of 1 yr (1,560 hours) of associated work expertise inside the final three years.
Training: Have a Canadian credential or overseas equal. An Instructional Credential Evaluation is required if the latter.
Language proficiency: Reveal language proficiency primarily based on the TEER of your job provide:
- TEER 0–1: CLB 6
- TEER 2–3: CLB 5
- TEER 4–5: CLB 4
Proof of funds: Present proof of adequate funds to help your self and your loved ones—from $10,507 for a single applicant to $27,806 for a household of seven.
Candidates are anticipated to reveal an intent to reside in the neighborhood.
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