Fabricator

Job Duties

• Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
• Measure dimensions of completed products or workpieces to verify conformance to specifications.
• Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
• Align parts or workpieces to ensure proper assembly.
• Move parts into position, manually or with hoists or cranes.
• Lift materials or workpieces using cranes or other lifting equipment.
• 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.
• Operate welding equipment.
• Study engineering drawings and blueprints to determine materials requirements and task sequences.
• Tack-weld fitted parts together.
• Operate welding equipment.
• Mark reference points onto floors or face blocks and transpose them to workpieces, using measuring devices, squares, chalk, and soapstone.
• Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
• Set up face blocks, jigs, and fixtures.
• Mount attachments or tools onto production equipment.
• Shape metal workpieces with
• Operate grinding equipment.
• Know Material and accessories sizes and types by sight and drawing requirement
• Straighten warped or bent parts, using sledges, hand torches, straightening presses, or bulldozers.
• Reshape metal workpieces to established specifications
• Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
• Smooth metal surfaces or edges.
• Preheat workpieces to make them malleable, using hand torches or furnaces.
• Heat material or workpieces to prepare for or complete production
• Lift or move materials and finished products, using large cranes.
• Lift materials or workpieces using cranes or other lifting equipment

• Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
• Mount materials or workpieces onto production equipment.
• Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
• Draw guide lines or markings on materials or workpieces using patterns or other references.
• Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
• Design templates or patterns.
• Construct patterns, templates, or other work aids.
• Hammer, chip, and grind workpieces to cut, bend, and straighten metal.

Offers of employment are contigent upon passing an HPE (Human Performance Exam) that tests the capability of likely physical requirements of the specific position.