Scaffolder — Your Work Holds Everything Up

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Scaffolder — Your Work Holds Everything Up

Every tie you make, every platform you level — that's skill built at height, under pressure. Now you can get paid for it.

🇪🇺 Scaffolders are on the European Commission's official list of critical shortage professions. Your skills are in high demand. Record them. Get paid.

The Observer Programme pays experienced scaffolders to record their working day using lightweight smart glasses. You continue your normal work — we capture what that expertise looks like.

How it works

• Wear smart glasses (compatible with hard hats and harnesses) while you work
• Record sessions from 30 minutes up — fits around your day
• Spend a few minutes after each session confirming what tasks you did in the app
• Get paid per recorded minute. The more you record, the more you earn
• All recordings are anonymised — no faces, no voices, no identifying details

What you'll earn

You're paid per minute of accepted footage — on top of your regular income. Scaffolding is a specialist trade and earns higher rates.

€28–€42 per recorded hour

€112–€168 per recording day (based on ~4 hours)

€2,000–€2,800 per month (based on 20 recording days)

First Observers in your specialism or region earn a launch bonus. Extra earnings possible through referral bonuses and specialist recording tasks.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of scaffolding experience
• Currently working — employed, self-employed, or freelance
• Hands-on work: erecting, altering, dismantling scaffold structures
• Relevant tickets/cards (CISRS, equivalent national certification preferred)
• Smartphone (iOS or Android)

All specialisms welcome: independent tied scaffolder, suspended access scaffolder, tube-and-fitting scaffolder, system scaffold erector.

We provide everything

• Smart glasses — shipped to you, pre-configured (compatible with hard hats)
• Full onboarding and support (~30 minutes)

About the Observer Programme

The Observer Programme by Aisthis works with professionals across 100+ trades to document how skilled work actually happens. Scaffolding — the spatial planning, the load awareness, the working-at-height judgement — is specialist knowledge worth recording.

Applications are reviewed with the help of AI. We'll be in touch if there's a match.