How do they match: Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

  • Hand Former
  • Machine Cage Maker
  • Pneumatic Tool Operator

  • Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
  • Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
  • 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.
  • Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
  • Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches.
  • 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.
  • Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.

  • Operate cutting equipment.
  • Operate grinding equipment.
  • Operate welding equipment.
  • Direct operational or production activities.
  • Review blueprints or other instructions to determine operational methods or sequences.
  • Shape metal workpieces with hammers or other small hand tools.