| Duties and Responsibilities |
Marking off and fabricating structural steel and other metal stock to make or repair metal products and structures including boilers and pressure vessels.
In particular Metal Fabricator (Boilermaker):
studies drawings or specifications to determine job requirements ,
selects, cleans and prepares metal stock, fabrication tools and equipment ,
cuts, rolls, bends, shapes, moulds, spins, heats or hammers metal products to fabricate parts or sub-assemblies ,
fits and assembles metal components by riveting, bolting, welding, brazing or soldering ,
finishes products by cleaning, polishing, filing or bathing them in acidic solutions ,
measures quality of fabricated parts or sub-assemblies ,
may set up and operate spinning lathes to spin shaped articles from sheet or structural metal ,
may plan, layout and fabricate mould patterns or templates for producing metal castings or articles. |