Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
Construction and ExtractionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers with an AI automation risk score of 3%. Analysis includes 7 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Getting Information
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
Required Abilities
- Static Strength
- Trunk Strength
- Multilimb Coordination
- Manual Dexterity
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
Key Tasks
Bend steel rods with hand tools or rod-bending machines and weld them with arc-welding equipment.
Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions.
Space and fasten together rods in forms according to blueprints, using wire and pliers.
Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, or hand tools.
Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches.
Place blocks under rebar to hold the bars off the deck when reinforcing floors.
Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete.
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data