Ironworker

Job Location -Decatur, Alabama

Full-Time Position: Iron Worker

Typical Duties & Functions

Job duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

Tasks:

• Operate safety equipment and use safe work habits.
• Fabricate metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
• Dismantle structures or equipment.
• Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting as needed.
• Hoist steel beams, girders, or columns into place, using cranes or signaling hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural steel members.
• Lay out, position, align, and secure parts and assemblies prior to assembly, using straightedges, combination squares, calipers, and rulers.
• Assemble hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
• Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
• Erect metal or precast concrete components for structures, such as buildings, bridges, dams, towers, storage tanks, fences, or highway guard rails.
• Force structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
• Clamp, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
• Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements.
• Mark or tag material with proper job number, piece marks, and other identifying marks as required.
• Remove rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
• Develop templates and models for welding projects, using mathematical calculations based on blueprint information.
• Guide and direct flames or electrodes on or across workpieces to straighten, bend, melt, or build up metal.
• Detect faulty operation of equipment or defective materials and notify supervisors.
• Cut, contour, and bevel metal plates and structural shapes to dimensions as specified by blueprints, layouts, work orders, and templates, using powered saws, hand shears, or chipping knives.
• Set up and use ladders and scaffolding as necessary to complete work.
• Hold rivets while riveters use air hammers to form heads on rivets.
• Insert sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, or valves, depending on types of structures being assembled.