To find a job, you need to know what your job is called in the job ad. Here are 47 blue-collar professions in Ukrainian and Polish — with an explanation of what the employer expects.
The most common warehouse job. Often with a scanner; sometimes voice picking.
Manual packaging or on the line. Experience is usually not required.
Broader role: receiving, placing, dispatching goods. Often requires a forklift license.
Requires UDT certification. The rate is significantly higher than for a packer.
Low-lift truck ("pallet jack"); easier than a forklift.
With accountability for accounting — language skills and system work are required.
Often in parcel sorting centers, night shifts.
The most typical factory job: line operation, quality control.
The easiest entry without experience and language skills.
Experience and blueprint reading required; one of the highest-paying blue-collar jobs.
Often requires experience and own tools.
Certificates required; rate is significantly higher than average.
Highest rate among welders; verified qualifications required.
Equipment maintenance; basic Polish is often required.
Requires SEP certification; without it, they will only hire you as an assistant.
Attentiveness is required, sometimes basic Polish for documents.
Experience working on an industrial machine is usually mandatory.
One of the highest-paying jobs without language skills; difficult conditions, cold.
Work in the slaughterhouse; experience is often required.
General title: packaging, sorting, sanitation.
Real experience is required; often tested on-site.
Heavy physical work, the rate is higher than for a general laborer.
Formwork and wooden structures.
Меблі й столярні вироби; окрема від тесляра професія.
Часто в парі з шпаклюванням (szpachlowanie).
Машинне штукатурення оплачується вище за ручне.
Цінується якість; часто відрядна оплата.
Робота на висоті; потрібні відповідні допуски.
Popular direction in renovation teams.
Потрібні досвід і власний інструмент.
Вхід без досвіду; далі можна вирости у фах.
Room cleaning; quota per number of rooms is often applied.
Offices, shopping malls, production plants; night shifts may occur.
Entry into gastronomy without language skills.
Потрібна базова польська і досвід кухні.
Обов’язкова польська — це робота з гостями.
Often at hotels and hospitals.
Потрібні права, карта водія і код 95.
Розвезення посилок; потрібна орієнтація в місті.
Офісна роль: потрібні мова й комп’ютер.
Помідори, огірки, квіти; сезонні піки.
Сезонна робота, часто відрядна оплата.
Догляд за тваринами; графік прив’язаний до господарства.
Потрібен досвід із худобою; рання зміна.
Керує групою; потрібна польська і досвід у сфері.
The next step up from a team leader.
Often requires a license and legal status with access to such work.
Вакансії пишуть польською — і якщо ви шукаєте «складівник», ви просто не побачите оголошень зі словом magazynier. Knowing the correct title immediately opens up ten times more offers and helps you speak more accurately with a recruiter.
The second thing to look at is requirements by title. "Operator wózka widłowego" almost always means UDT authorization, "spawacz TIG" means verified certificates, and "pomocnik" means entry without experience. Therefore, the same field can have rates that differ by double.
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