About the Role
This role involves fabricating reinforcing steel products using semi-automated and automated equipment, with opportunities for growth into a Rebar Fabricator II position.
Responsibilities
- Use one classification of rebar fabricating machinery to produce rebar products according to production specifications.
- Ensure product quality by checking machine setups and products for accuracy and conformance to project specifications.
- Affix tags or ID markings to products for proper identification.
- Use small power equipment such as rebar cutters and benders and pneumatic tools to fabricate rebar products.
- Load, unload, or change over machines for production work.
- Use industrial lifting machinery including forklifts and overhead cranes to load or unload vehicles with steel products.
- Participate in on-the-job training exercises to certify the safe operation of equipment and learn safe work practices.
- Perform assigned duties in accordance with safety practices and production guidelines.
- Perform simple and routine rebar fabrication operations on one classification of fabrication machine.
Requirements
- Basic education or experience in production welding (vocational school, post-secondary welding school, or equivalent industry experience).
- Ability to walk and stand continuously throughout the work day.
- Ability to bend, crouch, stoop, and kneel regularly throughout the workday.
- Ability to push and pull steel bars into position using both hands and arms.
- Ability to occasionally lift 50 lbs.
- Ability to conduct basic verbal communication in English.
Skills
- Proficiency with use of tape measure.
- Proficient use of basic hand tools such as pliers, wire reels, sledgehammers, pry bars, pipe wrenches.
- Semi-automated and automated equipment operation.
- Rebar fabrication.
- Machine setup and product inspection.
- Operation of rebar cutters and benders.
- Use of pneumatic tools.
- Industrial lifting machinery operation (forklifts, overhead cranes).
Work Type
- 2nd Shift; 2:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Experience Level
- Entry Level
Education Level
- Vocational school
- Post-secondary welding school
