Structural Ironworker
2 weeks ago
Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 60 hours per week
- Education: No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
**Work site environment**:
- Outdoors
- Dangerous
- At heights
- Noisy
- Confined spaces
- Cold/refrigerated
- Hot
- Wet/damp
**Work setting**:
- Fabrication
- Various locations
- New construction (Pre-engineered)
- New construction (Not pre-engineered)
- Re-vamp and renovation
- In-plant maintenance
**Tasks**:
- Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
- Perform job-site calculations
- Signal crane operators to position units according to blueprints
- Align, weld or bolt units in place
- Read and interpret blueprints, maps, drawings and specifications
- Dismantle metal, pre-cast concrete or laminated timber buildings and other structures
- Inspect or test structures and equipment for deterioration, defects or failure to comply with specifications or regulations
- Position and secure steel bars or metal mesh in concrete forms to reinforce concrete structures
- Unload and position steel units so each piece can be hoisted as needed
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
- Ironworker Trade Certification
**Welding techniques**:
- ARC
**Cranes (assemble, erect, jump, dismantle)**:
- Tower crane
- Derrick type crane
- Conventional hydraulic crane
**Area of specialization**:
- Erect structural steel
- Install reinforcing steel
- Install pre and post-tensioned cables
- Install curtain and window walls finishes
- Assemble and erect metal buildings
- Fabricate and repair ornamental iron and non-ferrous components
- Install structural and architectural pre-cast concrete components
- Erect structural wood material for churches, schools, pedestrian bridges and other structures
**Security and safety**:
- Drug test
**Transportation/travel information**:
- Own transportation
- Willing to travel
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Fast-paced environment
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Manual dexterity
- Overtime required
**Own tools/equipment**:
- Tools
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Gloves
**Personal suitability**:
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
**Screening questions**:
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current level of study?
**Health benefits**:
- Health care plan
**Financial benefits**:
- As per collective agreement
**Other benefits**:
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- On-site amenities
