Ironworker Craftsman 2

Kiewit • Abilene, TX

1d

About The Position

Ironworkers are responsible for the layout, installation, assembly, and steel erection components in accordance with blueprint plans, specifications, codes, and industry standards. This intermediate-level position is in a power plant or industrial setting and involves fabricating, positioning, aligning, and securing structural steel members, as well as assembling rigging and hoisting equipment.

The work takes place constantly in construction and industrial environments, including outdoors in changing weather, noisy and dusty conditions, confined or cluttered spaces, and uneven surfaces. The role may require access to work areas using ladders, mechanical platforms, manlifts, or scaffolds at heights that may exceed 200 feet. Work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required. The position requires the ability to perform physical tasks across the site, move items weighing up to 50 pounds, provide required tools, comply with safety and project rules, and pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing and a fit-for-duty medical examination.

Requirements

• Experience as an ironworker in a power plant or industrial setting.
• Working knowledge, skills, and abilities for the position.
• Ability to understand, follow, and transmit written and oral instructions and communicate effectively with management and supervision.
• Ability to use hand tools, power tools, and layout tools safely and efficiently.
• Ability to stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.
• Ability to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds.
• Ability to move and work in and around confined and cluttered places and on uneven surfaces.
• Ability to complete tasks in noisy and dusty environments.
• Ability to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across a construction or industrial site.
• Must have required tools.
• Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing and a fit-for-duty medical examination.

Responsibilities

• Read specifications or blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, or sizes of required materials.
• Fabricate metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or supervisor instructions.
• Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting; hoist steel beams, girders, or columns into place using cranes or by signaling hoisting equipment operators.
• Verify the vertical and horizontal alignment of structural steel members using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, or levels.
• Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
• Force structural steel members into final positions using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
• Pull, push, or pry structural steel members into approximate positions for bolting.
• Bolt aligned structural-steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding.
• Assemble hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
• Observe and comply with all safety and project rules.
• Perform other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed