Job Descriptions

• Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions. • Review blueprints or specifications to determine work requirements. • Space and fasten together rods in forms according to blueprints, using wire and pliers. • Install fencing or other barriers. • Position structural components. • Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, or hand tools. • Install metal structural components. • Position structural components. • Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches. • Cut metal components for installation. • Place blocks under rebar to hold the bars off the deck when reinforcing floors. • Position safety or support equipment. • Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete. • Cut metal components for installation. • Position structural components. • Bend steel rods with hand tools or roadmending machines and weld them with arc-welding equipment. • Weld metal components.

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