Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters
ProductionAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters with an AI automation risk score of 9%. Analysis includes 23 core tasks.
Why This Score?
- Work environment requires human interaction and presence
Responsibilities and Abilities
Key Responsibilities
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Performing General Physical Activities
Required Abilities
- Arm-Hand Steadiness
- Near Vision
- Visualization
- Manual Dexterity
- Control Precision
Key Tasks
Design and construct templates and fixtures, using hand tools.
Lay out and examine metal stock or workpieces to be processed to ensure that specifications are met.
Install boilers, containers, and other structures.
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.
Position, align, fit, and weld parts to form complete units or subunits, following blueprints and layout specifications, and using jigs, welding torches, and hand tools.
Locate and mark workpiece bending and cutting lines, allowing for stock thickness, machine and welding shrinkage, and other component specifications.
Smooth workpiece edges and fix taps, tubes, and valves.
Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
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Upskilling Courses
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Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data