Event scaffolder
Also called scaffolding worker, scaffolding installer, scaffolding team member
Event scaffolders set up and dismantle temporary seating, stages and structures which support performance equipment, artists and the audience. Their job can include rope access, working above colleagues and lifting heavy loads, which makes it a high risk occupation. Their work is based on instruction, plans and calculations. They work indoors as well as outdoors.
What you'd do
Riggers and cable splicers · ILO- Estimating the size, shape and weight of objects to be moved and deciding on the type of equipment to move them
- Installing and repairing cables, ropes, wires, pulleys and other tackle
- Joining, repairing and fitting attachments to wires, ropes and cables
- Working as member of crew erecting and repairing derricks for drilling water, gas and oil wells
- Lifting and mounting scenery, lighting and other equipment in theatres and on film sets
- Installing and maintaining communication towers, aerial cableways, funicular railways, ski lifts and similar infrastructure
- Mostly outdoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Constant contact with people
- Some freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines every day
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Limited prospectsFewer jobs than in most work will need filling by 2035.
Solid: measured. Dashed: forecast.
What does it pay?
About averagePay depends a lot on the country: from about €1,200 a month (Bulgaria) to €5,100 (Denmark), before tax.
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Among craft and related trades workers in the EU, women earn 26% less per hour than men. Craft and related trades workers · Eurostat
What do I need to study?
Upper secondary or vocationalUpper secondary or vocational training is the usual route.
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Will AI change it?
Very littleAI could help with only small parts of the tasks.
Average task score 0.13 on a scale from 0 (AI can't do it) to 1 (AI could do it fully).
See the score for each of the 6 tasks
Based on what AI could technically do when assessed in 2025. It is not a forecast for a future year, and not a forecast of job losses. Scores for riggers and cable splicers. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).