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Salary- Experience required: AQF Certificate III including at least two years of on-the-job training or 3 years work experience may substitute for the formal qualification
Job Objective:
The Metal Fabricator fabricates and repairs metal products using various welding techniques.
Marks off and fabricates structural steel and other metal stock to make or repair metal products and structures such as boilers and pressure vessels.
Job Tasks and Duties:
- Studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job requirements
- Selecting, cleaning and preparing metal stock
- Cutting marked-out metal sections and shapes using hand tools, flame cutting torches and metal cutting machines
- Shaping and bending metal sections and pipes using hand and machine tools, and by heating and hammering
- Aligning parts to be joined using hand tools and measuring instruments
- Joining metal sections using various welding techniques, bolting and riveting
- Examining welds for width of bead, penetration and precision finishing products by cleaning, polishing, filing and bathing in acidic solutions
