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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters. | Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. | |||
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Space and fasten together rods in forms according to blueprints, using wire and pliers. | ||||
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Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions. | ||||
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Place blocks under rebar to hold the bars off the deck when reinforcing floors. | ||||
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Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches. | ||||
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Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete. | ||||
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Bend steel rods with hand tools and rodbending machines, and weld them with arc-welding equipment. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar 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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Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. | |||
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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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Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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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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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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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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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 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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Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. | |||
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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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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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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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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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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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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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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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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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Stamina | The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. | |||
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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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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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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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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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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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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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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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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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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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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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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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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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Speed of Limb Movement | The ability to quickly move the arms and legs. | |||
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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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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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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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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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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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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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Hearing Sensitivity | The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Application Software SHEAR | Project management software | |||
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Applied Systems Associates aSa Rebar | Project management software | |||
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OTP ArmaCAD | Computer aided design CAD software | |||
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RebarWin | Project management software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Acetylene torches | Blow torches | |||
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Adjustable widemouth pliers | Adjustable widemouth pliers | |||
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Air compressors | Air compressors | |||
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Arc welding equipment | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Automatic rebar tying tools | Bending machines | |||
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Beam spreaders | Below the hook device | |||
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Bolt cutters | Bolt cutters | |||
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Caulking guns | Caulking guns | |||
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Chokers | Fall protection lanyard | |||
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Crowbars | Pry bars | |||
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Cutoff saws | Power saws | |||
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Electric drills | Power drills | |||
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Grease guns | Grease guns | |||
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Hacksaws | Saws | |||
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Hard hats | Hard hats | |||
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Hickey bars | Hickeys | |||
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Hole saws | Hole saws | |||
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Hydraulic cable cutters | Wire or cable cutters | |||
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Hydraulic crimpers | Wire lug crimping tool | |||
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Jig saws | Power saws | |||
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Metal shears | Shears | |||
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Notebook computers | Notebook computers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Pneumatic hammers | Pneumatic hammer | |||
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Portable hydraulic rod benders | Bending machines | |||
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Protective gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Rebar benders | Hickeys | |||
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Rebar cutters | Bar or rod cutters | |||
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Rigging equipment | Slings | |||
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Safety harnesses | Safety harnesses or belts | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Shear lines | Cutting machines | |||
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Socket wrenches | Sockets | |||
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Swaging tools | Swaging tools | |||
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Torches | Blow torches | |||
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Tuggers | Hoists | |||
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Utility knives | Utility knives | |||
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Welders | Welders | |||
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Wire twisters | Conduit benders | |||
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Workshop cranes | Workshop cranes | |||
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Wrecking bars | Pry bars | |||
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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 | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Field Ironworker | |||
Iron Worker | |||
Ironworker | |||
Laborer | |||
Operating Engineer | |||
Post Tensioning Ironworker | |||
Reinforced Ironworker | |||
Reinforcing Metal Worker | |||
Reinforcing Rod Layer | |||
Reinforcing Steel Worker | |||
Rod Buster | |||
Rodman | |||
Steel Rod Buster | |||
Steel Tier | |||
Welder | |||
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