Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.
Job Tasks
- Follow established safety rules and regulations and maintain a safe and clean environment.
- Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts, following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
- Install metal structural components.
- Bolt aligned structural steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place.
- Install metal structural components.
- Fasten structural steel members to hoist cables, using chains, cables, or rope.
- Verify vertical and horizontal alignment of structural steel members, using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, or levels.
- Verify alignment of structures or equipment.
- Hoist steel beams, girders, or columns into place, using cranes or signaling hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural steel members.
- Operate cranes, hoists, or other moving or lifting equipment.
- Signal equipment operators to indicate proper equipment positioning.
- Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
- Cut metal components for installation.
- Weld metal components.
- Erect metal or precast concrete components for structures, such as buildings, bridges, dams, towers, storage tanks, fences, or highway guard rails.
- Install metal structural components.
- Force structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
- Install metal structural components.
- Pull, push, or pry structural steel members into approximate positions for bolting into place.
- Position structural components.
- Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting as needed.
- Load or unload materials used in construction or extraction.
- Position structural components.
- Drive drift pins through rivet holes to align rivet holes in structural steel members with corresponding holes in previously placed members.
- Install metal structural components.
- Assemble hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
- Assemble temporary equipment or structures.
- Fabricate metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
- Fabricate parts or components.
- Use rope to guide steel members into position.
- Position structural components.
- Dismantle structures or equipment.
- Dismantle equipment or temporary structures.
- Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, or valves, depending on the types of structures being assembled.
- Install insulation in equipment or structures.
- Install gauges or controls.
- Install electrical components, equipment, or systems.
- Install metal roof and metal siding.