LIST OF OCCUPATIONS WHERE THERE IS A SHORTAGE
Below is a list of occupations where there is a shortage in the French-speaking region for the purpose of admitting third-country nationals for work.
This list is valid for the period between 1 October 2024 and 30 September 2025.
- Building manager
- Technical sales representative
- Construction draughtsman/draughtswoman
- Quantity surveyor
- Construction site driver
- Construction site manager
- Tower crane operator
- Construction machine operator
- Drilling machine operator
- Heavy metal structure fitter
- Residential electrician
- Data communications network installer
- Plumbing installer
- Central heating installer
- Ventilation system installer
- Overhead and underground cable and conduit installer
- Exterior carpenter
- Interior carpenter
- Tiler
- Roofer
- Roofing insulator
- Formwork carpenter/steel fixer
- Road worker
- Skilled mason
- Water pipe fitter
- Pipe fitter
- Chef/Head chef
- Chef/Chef de partie
- Technical sales advisor
- Health, safety and environment expert
- Production planning and management manager
- Industrial management and logistics technician
- Production process and methods technician
- Industrial quality control manager
- Industrial production laboratory technician
- Chemical plant operator
- Textile manufacturing machine operator
- Production manager
- Electrical and electromechanical equipment assembler/wirer
- Industrial sheet metal worker
- CNC machine tool operator/setter
- Conventional machine tool operator/setter
- Semi-automatic welder
- TIG welder
- Pipe fitter
- Industrial automation technician
- Electromechanic
- Industrial electronics maintenance technician
- Refrigeration and air conditioning technician
- Communications network and security systems technician
- Heating system maintenance technician
- Maintenance electrician
- Maintenance mechanic
- Maintenance mechanic for construction, agricultural and lifting equipment
- Mechanic for trucks and heavy commercial vehicles (+ 3.5T)
- Automotive technician
- Bodywork panel beater
- Care assistant
- Nurse
- Social worker
- Part-time secondary school art teacher
- Driving instructor
- Purchaser
- Accountant
- Data scientist
- ICT analyst-developer
- Heavy goods vehicle driver with C licence
- Heavy goods vehicle driver with CE licence - multi-body
- Heavy goods vehicle driver with CE licence
- CE licence heavy goods vehicle driver – special transport
- Bus driver
- Coach driver
- Teacher, within the limits of the list of teaching positions where there is a shortage, as established by the French Community