Kitchen unit installer
Also called kitchen fitter, kitchen installer, kitchen furniture fitter
Kitchen unit installers install kitchen elements in homes. They take the necessary measurements, prepare the room, removing old elements if necessary, and install the new kitchen equipment, including the connection of water, gas and sewage pipes and electricity lines.
What you'd do
Carpenters and joiners · ILO- Making, altering and repairing structural and other woodwork at a workbench and on a construction site
- Constructing, erecting and installing heavy-framed wooden structures on building sites
- Fitting, assembling and altering internal and external fixtures of buildings, such as walls, doors, door and window frames, facings and panelling
- Making, repairing and fitting scenic equipment for theatrical performances and motion picture or television productions
- Constructing, assembling, altering and repairing wooden fixtures and fittings in train coaches, aircraft, ships, boats, floats and other vehicles
- Mostly outdoors
- On your feet most of the day
- Lots of contact with people
- Good freedom to decide
- Often more than 40 hours a week
- Deadlines most weeks
- Some repetitive tasks
Will there be jobs?
Yes, good prospects15 EU countries are short of carpenters and joiners now, but fewer 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 €1,000 a month (Bulgaria) to €5,500 (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 in building and civil engineering 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 5 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 carpenters and joiners. Source: ILO (2025), adapted (credits).