Site Civil Engineer — Your Field Expertise Has Real Value

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Site Civil Engineer — Your Field Expertise Has Real Value

Surveying, setting out, supervising pours — the work you do on site can't be replicated from a desk. Now you can get paid for it.

🇪🇺 Civil engineers 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 site-based civil engineers to record their working day using lightweight smart glasses. You do your normal site work — we capture the expertise.

How it works

• Wear smart glasses (compatible with hard hats) while on site
• Record sessions from 30 minutes up — fits around your day
• Spend a few minutes after each session confirming what tasks you performed
• 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.

€20–€28 per recorded hour

€80–€112 per recording day (based on ~4 hours)

€1,200–€1,800 per month (based on 20 recording days)

First Observers in a specialism or region earn a launch bonus. Extra earnings possible through referral bonuses.

What we're looking for

• 3+ years of experience as a site-based civil engineer
• Currently working on site — employed or contract
• Hands-on site work: setting out, surveying, supervising construction, inspections, quality checks
• Smartphone (iOS or Android)

All specialisms welcome: site civil engineer (road/bridge), structural site engineer, geotechnical site engineer.

Note: This role is for site-based engineers with hands-on field work. Desk-based design roles are not currently part of the programme.

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. Site engineering — the spatial judgement, the problem-solving, the coordination — is expertise worth recording.

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