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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
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. | Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required. | |||
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Verify vertical and horizontal alignment of structural-steel members, using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, and/or levels. | ||||
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Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts, following blueprints and instructions from supervisors. | ||||
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Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place, using cranes, or signal hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural-steel members. | ||||
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Bolt aligned structural-steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place. | ||||
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Ride on girders or other structural-steel members to position them, or use rope to guide them into position. | ||||
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Fabricate metal parts such as steel frames, columns, beams, and girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors. | ||||
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Pull, push, or pry structural-steel members into approximate positions for bolting into place. | ||||
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Cut, bend, and weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, and welding equipment. | ||||
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Fasten structural-steel members to hoist cables, using chains, cables, or rope. | ||||
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Assemble hoisting equipment and rigging, such as cables, pulleys, and hooks, to move heavy equipment and materials. | ||||
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Force structural-steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, and hand tools. | ||||
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Erect metal and precast concrete components for structures such as buildings, bridges, dams, towers, storage tanks, fences, and highway guard rails. | ||||
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Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting as needed. | ||||
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Drive drift pins through rivet holes in order to align rivet holes in structural-steel members with corresponding holes in previously placed members. | ||||
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Dismantle structures and equipment. | ||||
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Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, and valves, depending on types of structures being assembled. | ||||
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Catch hot rivets in buckets, and insert rivets in holes, using tongs. | ||||
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Place blocks under reinforcing bars used to reinforce floors. | ||||
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Hold rivets while riveters use air-hammers to form heads on rivets. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Structural Iron and Steel Workers
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Building and Construction | Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads. | |||
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Production and Processing | Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods. | |||
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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Design | Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models. | |||
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English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. | |||
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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. | |||
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Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. | |||
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Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. | |||
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Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. | |||
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Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. | |||
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Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. | |||
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Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. | |||
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Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Quality Control Analysis | Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance. | |||
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Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. | |||
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Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Depth Perception | The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Gross Body Equilibrium | The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position. | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. | |||
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Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Rate Control | The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene. | |||
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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Auditory Attention | The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds. | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. | |||
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Gross Body Coordination | The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Glare Sensitivity | The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. | |||
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Wrist-Finger Speed | The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. | |||
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Visual Color Discrimination | The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness. | |||
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Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). | |||
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Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Computer aided design CAD software | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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Cost estimating software | Project management software | |||
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Inventory tracking software | Inventory management software | |||
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Project scheduling software | Project management software | |||
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Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal | Accounting software | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Blow torches | Blow torches | |||
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Bolt cutters | Bolt cutters | |||
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Bull pins | Form tools or toolbits | |||
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C clamps | C clamps | |||
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Center punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Chalk lines | Chalk lines | |||
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Cold chisels | Cold chisels | |||
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Combination squares | Squares | |||
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Crowbars | Pry bars | |||
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Cutoff saws | Power saws | |||
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Drift pins | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Electric drills | Power drills | |||
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Files | Files | |||
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Fire extinguishers | Fire extinguishers | |||
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Flat screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Forges | Forging tooling | |||
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Grout mixers | Plaster or mortar mixers | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Hydraulic pumps | Hydraulic pumps | |||
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Jacks | Jacks | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Laser levels | Levels | |||
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Life preservers | Life vests or preservers | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Open end wrenches | Open end wrenches | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Phillips head screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Pipe wrenches | Pipe wrenches | |||
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Plumb bobs | Plumb bobs | |||
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Pneumatic hammers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power lifts | Lifts | |||
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Protective coveralls | Protective coveralls | |||
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Protective harnesses | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Respirators | Respirators | |||
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Rivet busters | Rivet tools | |||
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Rivet guns | Rivet tools | |||
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Rivet tongs | Tongs | |||
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Robertson screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Rod ovens | Welding tools | |||
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Rubber mallets | Mallets | |||
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Safety belts | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Safety boots | Safety boots | |||
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Safety glasses | Safety glasses | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Safety lanyards | Fall protection lanyard | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Scribers | Scribers | |||
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Side cutting pliers | End cut pliers | |||
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Sledgehammers | Hammers | |||
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Slings | Slings | |||
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Socket wrench sets | Socket sets | |||
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Spreader beams | Below the hook device | |||
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Spud wrenches | Specialty wrenches | |||
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Squares | Squares | |||
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Staple guns | Staple guns | |||
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Stressing jacks | Jacks | |||
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Strikers | Lighters | |||
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Swing stages | Manlift or personnel lift | |||
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Tape measures | Tape measures | |||
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Tin snips | Tinners snips | |||
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Tongs | Tongs | |||
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Torpedo levels | Levels | |||
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Tuggers | Hoists | |||
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Two way radios | Two way radios | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Vise grip pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Welding gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Welding helmets | Welding masks | |||
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Welding hoods | Welding masks | |||
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Welding machines | Welders | |||
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Welding tips | Welding or cutting tips | |||
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Winches | Winches | |||
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Wire brushes | Wire brushes | |||
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Workshop cranes | Workshop cranes | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | High School Diploma (or GED or High School Equivalence Certificate) | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | Up to and including 1 month | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Assembler | |||
Awnings Mechanic | |||
Billboard Erector | |||
Billboard Installer | |||
Billboard Mechanic | |||
Bolter | |||
Bridge Ironworker | |||
Bridge Maintainer | |||
Bridgeman | |||
Building Construction Ironworker | |||
Construction Ironworker | |||
Fitter | |||
Fitter / Welder | |||
Guard Rail Installer | |||
Guzzler Builder | |||
Housesmith | |||
Iron Erector | |||
Iron Guardrail Installer | |||
Iron Setter | |||
Iron Worker | |||
Iron Worker Apprentice | |||
Ironworker | |||
Joist Setter | |||
Layout Worker | |||
Metal Buildings Assembler | |||
Metal Tank Builder | |||
Metal Tank Erector | |||
Metal Trim Erector | |||
Metalsmith | |||
Oil Field Rig Builder | |||
Ornamental Iron Erector | |||
Ornamental Iron Worker Apprentice | |||
Ornamental Ironworker | |||
Ornamental Metal Erector Apprentice | |||
Ornamental Metal Worker | |||
Playground Equipment Erector | |||
Pre-Engineered Metal Building Ironworker | |||
Precast Concrete Ironworker | |||
Sheet Ironworker | |||
Sign Board Erector | |||
Sign Builder | |||
Sign Erector | |||
Sign Hanger | |||
Sign Installer | |||
Steel Construction Worker | |||
Steel Erector | |||
Steel Fabricator | |||
Steel Fitter | |||
Steel Hanger | |||
Steel Layout Worker | |||
Steel Rigger | |||
Steel Worker | |||
Structural Iron Erector | |||
Structural Iron Worker Apprentice | |||
Structural Ironworker | |||
Structural Layout Worker | |||
Structural Metal Worker | |||
Structural Rigger | |||
Structural Steel Erector | |||
Structural Steel Fitter | |||
Structural Steel Ironworker | |||
Structural Steel Worker Apprentice | |||
Structural Worker | |||
Tank Setter | |||
Tower Hand | |||
Welder | |||
Wind Turbine Erector | |||
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