Ironworker Journeyman

Kiewit • Abilene, TX

5d

About The Position

Responsible for laying out, installing, assembling, and erecting steel components in accordance with blueprints, specifications, codes, and industry standards. The position is in a construction or industrial environment and requires experience as an ironworker in a power plant or industrial setting. The role also includes inspecting subordinate work for compliance with contract plans and specifications, identifying deficiencies, and taking corrective action as needed.

The person in this position must be able to work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required; use ladders, mechanical platforms, manlifts, or scaffolding to access work areas; and meet the physical demands of working on a construction or industrial site. Required tools, safety compliance, and passing pre-access drug and alcohol testing and a fit-for-duty medical are also specified.

Requirements

• Experience as an ironworker in a power plant or industrial setting.
• 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 tools, hand tools, power tools, layout tools, and measurement tools.
• Must have the required tools.
• Ability to pass pre-access drug and alcohol testing and a fit-for-duty medical.
• Ability to constantly move about a construction or industrial site and stand, walk, sit, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch, and/or crawl.
• Ability to work in changing outdoor weather conditions and in noisy, dusty, confined, cluttered, or uneven environments.
• Ability to work irregular hours, weekends, overtime, and holidays as required.
• Ability to climb and maintain balance on formwork, steel formwork, stairs, ladders, and scaffolds; may need to use ladders, mechanical platforms, manlifts, or scaffolds to access areas exceeding 200 feet.
• Ability to move items weighing up to 50 pounds across a construction or industrial site.

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 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.
• Estimate sizes, distances, and quantities, or determine the time, costs, resources, or materials needed for a work activity.
• Inspect subordinate work for compliance with contract plans and specifications, point out deficiencies, explain them, and take corrective action as needed.
• Observe and comply with safety and project rules and perform other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

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