How do they match: Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

  • Post Tensioning Ironworker
  • Reinforcing Metal Worker

  • Bend steel rods with hand tools or rod-bending machines and weld them with arc-welding equipment.
  • Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches.
  • Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions.

  • Cut metal components for installation.
  • Install metal structural components.
  • Position safety or support equipment.
  • Weld metal components.