How to become a concrete form worker

Official title: Concrete form worker

Also called: Concrete shutterer, Reinforced concreter, Ÿ Concrete shutterer

Concrete form worker builds, assembles, places in position and dismantles rough wooden structures (shuttering) into which concrete is poured and allowed to set. He/she marks out, cuts and adjusts wood to be assembled in shuttering partitions or assembles shuttering from prefabricated wooden parts.

Main tasks

• Constructing and repairing reinforced concrete floors, walls, tanks, silos and other concrete structures
• Making shuttering or assembling pre-fabricated forms for moulding concrete

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

Will AI change the work of a concrete form worker?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026