Sheetmetal Trades Workers

Key Tasks

• •Studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job, material and equipment requirements
• •Selecting metal stock, such as stainless steel, galvanised iron, mild steel, aluminium and copper, and checking sizes, gauges and other dimensions of metal stock against specifications
• •Marking out metal stock with reference points and lines, using templates, gauges and other measuring instruments
• •Cutting metal stock along guidelines using hand and power shears, guillotines and drills
• •Shaping and forming cut metal stock into products using folding and bending machines, rollers, presses and hammers
• •Fitting and assembling components into final products by welding, riveting, soldering, brazing and otherwise joining
• •Finishing products by polishing, filing, sanding and cleaning assembled products
• •May repair damaged sheetmetal products and components
• •May specialise in fabrication, or on-site assembly and installation, of sheetmetal products
• •May produce aircraft sheet metal components requiring advanced drawing and calculating skills
• •May specialise in decorative copperwork

Employment Projections to 2034