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Job Description
Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 51-2041.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 40,000.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 19.00
- Currently, there are 77,270 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters”.
Also Known As…
- Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
- Welder-Fabricator
- Weld Technician
- Tack Welder
- Structural Steel Fitter
- Ship Fitter
- Mill Beam Fitter
- Layout Man
- Fitter, Welder
- Fitter
- Fabricator
- Weld Fitter
- Structural Fitter
- Structural and Ornamental Metalwork Steel Fabricator
- Structural and Ornamental Metalwork Metal Fabricator
- Steelworker
- Steel Fabricator
- Ship Propeller Finisher
- Protector Plate Attacher
- Precision Structural Metal Fitter
- Pneumatic Tool Operator
- Ornamental Metal Worker
- Motorcycle Maker
- Motorcycle Fabricator
- Motorcycle Assembler
- Metal Framer
- Metal Fabricator Apprentice
- Metal Fabricator
- Metal Box Maker
- Hand Former
- Ground Support Equipment Assembler
- Fabricator Assembler Metal Products
- Cage Maker, Machine
Tasks for “Ornamental Metal Worker Apprentice”
- Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
- Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
- Install boilers, containers, and other structures.
- Direct welders to build up low spots or short pieces with weld.
- Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
- Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
- Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
- Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches.
- Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
- Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
- Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies.
- Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
- Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
- Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.
- Tack-weld fitted parts together.
- Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to workpieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
- Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
- Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
- Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
- Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
- Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
- Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
- Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hand clamps
- Power grinders
- Straightening presses
- Hand shears
- Pry bars
- Rivet guns
- Dial indicators
- Edge planers
- Welding torches
- Paint spray guns
- Drill presses
- Metal cutting taps
- Power hoists
- Reamers
- Magnetic drill presses
- Beverly shears
- Locking pliers
- Transit levels
- Hand torches
- Turnbuckles
- Brakes
- Steel rules
- Scaffolding
- Positioning jigs
- Overhead cranes
- Flame cutters
- Layout squares
- Roll benders
- Jacks
- Protractors
- Radial arm saws
- Surface gauges
- Forklifts
- Measuring tapes
- Scribers
- Claw hammers
- Precision files
- Center punches
- End milling machines
- Radial drills
- Power hacksaws
- Metal inert gas MIG welders
- Lathes
- Tracked bulldozers
- Vernier height gauges
- Sledgehammers
- Computerized numerical control CNC metal-cutting machines
- Belt sanders
- Cutoff saws
- Desktop computers
- Computerized numerical control CNC press brakes
- Ladders
- Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment
- Bench vises
- Punches
- Micrometers
- Milling machines
- Drift pins
- Plasma cutters
- Tack welding equipment
- Sine bars
- Personal computers
- Wedges
- Unishears
- Adjustable wrenches
- Straight screwdrivers
- Power chippers
- Hand torch welders
- Heating furnaces
- Metal inert gas MIG welding equipment
- Dividers
- Data entry software
- Spreadsheet software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Computer aided design and drafting CADD software
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Excel