Fabricator

Measure completed work pieces to verify conformance to specifications, using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.

• Examine completed work pieces for defects such as pitted and marred surfaces, and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.

• Read work orders and production schedules to determine specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, and dimensions and tolerances.

• Load work pieces and steel plates into machines.

• Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal material.

• Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.

• Test and adjust machine speeds and actions, according to product specifications, and using gauges and hand tools.

• Install, align, and lock specified punches, dies, cutting blades or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.

• Clean and lubricate machines.

• Position, align, and secure work pieces against fixtures or stops on machine beds or on dies.

• Scribe reference lines on work pieces as guides for cutting operations, according to blueprints, templates, sample parts, or specifications.

• Set blade tensions, heights, and angles to perform prescribed cuts, using wrenches.

• Adjust ram strokes of presses to specified lengths, using hand tools.

• Place work pieces on cutting tables, manually or using hoists, cranes, or sledges.

• Position guides, stops, holding blocks, or other fixtures to secure and direct work pieces, using hand tools and measuring devices.

• Turn valves to start flow of coolant against cutting areas and to start airflow that blows cuttings away from kerfs.

• Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components, such as rams or power presses, when making multiple or successive passes.

• Lubricate work pieces with oil.

• Replace defective blades or wheels, using hand tools.

• Mark identifying data on work pieces.

• Turn controls to set cutting s None peeds, feed rates, and table angles for specified operations.

• Grind out burrs and sharp edges, using portable grinders, speed lathes, and polishing jacks.

• Fit steel materials together and tack weld to form structures for the vessels.

• Ability to read shop drawings and blueprints.

• Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.

• And miscellaneous duties as may be required