Ironworker Journeyman - Night Shift

Kiewit•Abilene, TX

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for laying out, installing, assembling, and erecting steel components in accordance with blueprint plans, specifications, codes, and industry standards. This skilled role includes fabricating and positioning structural steel, coordinating lifts, verifying alignment, and ensuring work complies with contract plans and specifications. The position works on a construction or industrial site and may involve irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required.

Requirements

May require a high school diploma or equivalent, with previous years of experience in the field or a related area.
Strong 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.
Proficiency in the safe and efficient use of electrical, hand, power, layout, and measurement tools.
Must have required tools.
Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing and a fit-for-duty medical assessment.
Ability to stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl while moving around a construction or industrial site.
Ability to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds; may use ladders, mechanical platforms, manlifts, or scaffolds to access work areas exceeding 200 feet.
Ability to work in confined, cluttered, uneven, noisy, and dusty environments and in changing outdoor weather conditions.
Ability to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across a construction or industrial site.
Ability to work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required.

Responsibilities

Read specifications and blueprints to determine material locations, quantities, and sizes.
Fabricate metal parts such as steel frames, columns, beams, and girders according to blueprints or supervisor instructions.
Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting; hoist or signal operators to lift and position structural steel members.
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.
Move structural steel members into final or approximate positions using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
Bolt aligned structural-steel members in place for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding.
Assemble hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
Estimate sizes, distances, quantities, time, costs, resources, or materials needed for work activities.
Inspect subordinate employees’ work for compliance with contract plans and specifications, identify deficiencies, and explain or take corrective action.
Observe and comply with safety and project rules, and perform other duties as required.