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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products. | 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. | |||
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Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes. | ||||
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Tack-weld fitted parts together. | ||||
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Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met. | ||||
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Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers. | ||||
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Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications. | ||||
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Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting. | ||||
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Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences. | ||||
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Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes. | ||||
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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. | ||||
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Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal. | ||||
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Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves. | ||||
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Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools. | ||||
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Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers. | ||||
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Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to workpieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone. | ||||
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Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures. | ||||
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Remove high spots and cut bevels, using hand files, portable grinders, and cutting torches. | ||||
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Direct welders to build up low spots or short pieces with weld. | ||||
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Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes. | ||||
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Heat-treat parts, using acetylene torches. | ||||
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Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces. | ||||
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Install boilers, containers, and other structures. | ||||
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Erect ladders and scaffolding to fit together large assemblies. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
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
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
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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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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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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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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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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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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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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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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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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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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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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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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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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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. | |||
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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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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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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
Data entry software | Data base user interface and query software | |||
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Enterprise resource planning ERP software | Enterprise resource planning ERP software | |||
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Spreadsheet software | Spreadsheet software | |||
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Word processing software | Word processing software | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Belt sanders | Power sanders | |||
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Bench vises | Bench vises | |||
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Beverly shears | Shears | |||
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Brakes | Workshop presses | |||
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Center punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Claw hammers | Hammers | |||
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Computerized numerical control CNC metal-cutting machines | Milling cutters | |||
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Computerized numerical control CNC press brakes | Workshop presses | |||
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Cutoff saws | Power saws | |||
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Desktop computers | Desktop computers | |||
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Dial indicators | Gauges or inspection fixtures | |||
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Dividers | Compasses | |||
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Drift pins | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Drill presses | Workshop presses | |||
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Edge planers | Power planes | |||
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End milling machines | Machine end mills | |||
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Flame cutters | Plasma welding machinery | |||
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Forklifts | Forklifts | |||
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Hand clamps | Hand clamps | |||
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Hand files | Files | |||
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Hand shears | Shears | |||
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Hand torches | Blow torches | |||
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Heating furnaces | Induction heaters | |||
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Jacks | Jacks | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Lathes | Lathes | |||
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Layout squares | Squares | |||
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Locking pliers | Locking pliers | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Metal inert gas MIG welding equipment | Metal inert gas MIG welding machinery | |||
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Micrometers | Micrometers | |||
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Milling machines | Milling machines | |||
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Overhead cranes | Track cranes | |||
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Paint spray guns | Paint sprayers | |||
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Personal computers | Personal computers | |||
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Plasma cutters | Plasma welding machinery | |||
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Positioning jigs | Positioning jig | |||
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Power chippers | Power chippers | |||
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Power grinders | Power grinders | |||
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Power hacksaws | Power saws | |||
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Power hoists | Hoists | |||
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Protractors | Protractors | |||
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Pry bars | Pry bars | |||
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Punches | Punches or nail sets or drifts | |||
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Radial arm saws | Power saws | |||
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Radial drills | Twist drills | |||
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Reamers | Reamers | |||
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Rivet guns | Rivet tools | |||
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Roll benders | Tube bending machinery | |||
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Scaffolding | Scaffolding | |||
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Scribers | Scribers | |||
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Sine bars | Gauges or inspection fixtures | |||
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Sledgehammers | Hammers | |||
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Steel rules | Rulers | |||
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Straight screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Straightening presses | Workshop presses | |||
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Surface gauges | Gauges or inspection fixtures | |||
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Tack welding equipment | Welders | |||
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Taps | Taps or dies | |||
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Tracked bulldozers | Track bulldozers | |||
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Transit levels | Level sensors or transmitters | |||
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Tungsten inert gas TIG welding equipment | Tungsten inert gas TIG welding machinery | |||
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Turnbuckles | Turnbuckles | |||
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Unishears | Shears | |||
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Vernier height gauges | Height gauges | |||
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Wedges | Wedges | |||
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Welding torches | Blow torches | |||
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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-the-Job Training | Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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Related Work Experience | Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Cage Maker, Machine | |||
Computer Numerical Control Programmer / Operator (CNC Programmer / Operator) | |||
Fabricator | |||
Fabricator Assembler Metal Products | |||
Fitter | |||
Fitter-Welder | |||
Ground Support Equipment Assembler | |||
Hand Former | |||
Layout Man | |||
Metal Box Maker | |||
Metal Fabricator | |||
Metal Fabricator Apprentice | |||
Metal Framer | |||
Mill Beam Fitter | |||
Motorcycle Assembler | |||
Motorcycle Fabricator | |||
Motorcycle Maker | |||
Ornamental Metal Worker | |||
Ornamental Metal Worker Apprentice | |||
Plate Shop Operator | |||
Pneumatic Tool Operator | |||
Precision Structural Metal Fitter | |||
Protector Plate Attacher | |||
Ship Fitter | |||
Ship Propeller Finisher | |||
Steelworker | |||
Structural Steel Fitter | |||
Structural and Ornamental Metalwork Metal Fabricator | |||
Structural and Ornamental Metalwork Steel Fabricator | |||
Tack Welder | |||
Weld Technician | |||
Welder | |||
Welder-Fabricator | |||
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