STRUCTURAL IRONWORKERS

-Unload, erect, and connect fabricated iron beams to form the project skeleton.

-Work primarily on industrial, commercial and large residential buildings.

-Build towers, bridges, stadiums, and prefabricated metal buildings.

-Erect and install pre-cast beams, columns and panels.

REINFORCING IRONWDRKERS

-Fabricate, assemble, and install reinforcing steel (rebar), and wire mesh for all types of concrete construction.

-Fabricate, assemble, and install FRP, composites, and other materials used to reinforce all types of concrete construction.

-Fabricate, assemble, and install all components of pre and post-tensioning tendon and bar systems.

-Stress and grout pre and post-tensioning bars and tendons.

-Install all reinforcing accessories and supports

-Reinforcing components are typically manually assembled and tied together with wire or sometimes welded.

ORNAMENTAL (ARCHITECTURAL) IRONWORKERS

-Install metal windows into a building’s masonry or wooden openings.

-Erect curtain wall and window wall systems that cover the steel or reinforced concrete structure of a building.

-Install and erect metal stairways, catwalks, gratings, doors, railings, fencing, elevator fronts and building entrances.

RIGGING AND MACHINERY MOVING IRONWORKERS

-Load, unload, move and set machinery, structural steel and curtain walls.

-Operate power hoists, cranes, derricks, forklifts and aerial lifts.

-Have knowledge of fiber line, wire rope, hoisting equipment and proper hand signals.

WELDING AND BURNING IRONWORKERS

Welding and burning equipment are considered tools of the trade and performed by structural, reinforcing, ornamental and rigging ironworkers to secure their work to the structure. Ironworkers can be tested to be designated as a certified welder.

Iron Workers Local 782

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Available opportunities

Ironworker Apprenticeship Applications (Contact training center to apply, accepted as needed)

Paducah, Kentucky