REINFORCING IRON WORKER

Roles & Responsibilities

• Reading blueprints or looking at sketches to determine how to install rebar or mesh
• Figuring out the quantity, size, and shapes of reinforcing rods and determining where to place them
• Preparing rebar and mesh for installation using metal shears, hacksaws, and torches
• Bending or welding rebar together
• Installing cables
• Using pliers to tie wire around rods to fasten them together
• Positioning and securing rods, cables, mesh, or rebar in concrete forms

Tell employers what skills you have

Metal Fabrication

Base Metals

MetaL

Metal Casting

Assembly, metal

Welding

Rebar

Metalworking

Metal Forming

Welding pipes

Automatic welding