Job Description
Job Description
Iron worker / Welder
$28 / 30 per hour depending on experience
$90.00 per diem days worked only
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Sets up hoisting equipment, raising, and placing structural-steel members, with basic rigging knowledge for raising a placing structural steel members.
- Fastens steel members to cable of hoist, using chain, cable, or rope.
- Signals worker operating hoisting equipment to lift and place steel members.
- Guides members, using tag line in order to guide it into position.
- Pulls, pushes, or pries steel members into approximate position while member is supported by hoisting device.
- Forces members into final position, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, and hand tools.
- Aligns bolt holes in steel member using drift pins or spud wrenches.
- Verifies vertical and horizontal alignment of members using plumb bob and level. Bolts align members to keep them in position until they can be permanently bolted or welded in place.
- Cuts and welds steel members to make alterations using oxyacetylene welding equipment and supplies.
- Loads, transport, unloads material, tools, equipment, and supplies.
- May assist in lifting, positions and securing materials and work pieces during installation.
- Performs minor maintenance or cleaning activities of tools and equipment.
- Responsible for observing and complying with all safety and project rules, including wearing required personal safety equipment. Performs other duties as required.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Work within precise limits to standards of accuracy.Apply shop mathematics to solve problems.Plan work and select proper tools.Compare and see differences in size, shape and form of lines, figures, and objects.