Ironworker

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Company Profile

Turner Construction Company is an international construction services company. It is a leading builder in diverse and numerous market segments. The company also offers clients the support and accessibility of a local firm with the stability and resources of a multi-national organization.

Job Profile

The company requires ironworkers with welding experience to work on a local project. They should be responsible for erecting, connecting, assembling, and welding steel projects.

Educational Qualification

The candidates should have possessed a structural welding certification from a welding school.

Work Experience

The applicants should have at least 3 to 5 years of position-related experience.

Skills/Knowledge

• To read and interpret construction plans and specifications.
• Able to comprehend safety instructions and signage, communicate effectively in emergency situations
• Ability to understand written safety instructions from tool and equipment manufacturers

Duties/Responsibilities

• Able to travel and accommodate night and weekend work as needed
• To assemble hoisting equipment and rigging, to move heavy equipment and materials
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Assist with the overall site safety and quality programs as required and ensuring trade employees/subcontractors comply with Turner standards, safety codes, regulations, and job site security
• Bolt aligned structural-steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place
• Cut, bend, and weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, and welding equipment
• Dismantle structures and equipment as needed
• Display a high level of teamwork, integrity, commitment, and leadership in daily operations.
• Erect metal and pre-cast concrete components for building structures
• Drive drift pins through rivet holes in order to align rivet holes in structural-steel members with corresponding holes in previously placed members
• Fabricate metal parts such as steel frames, columns, beams, and girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors
• Fasten structural-steel members to hoist cables, using chains, cables, or rope
• Force structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, and hand tools
• Hoist steel beams, girders, and columns into place, using cranes, or signal hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural steel members
• Install fiberglass building insulation, metal cladding, and siding, standing seam roofing as well as insulated metal panels, windows, passage doors, and overhead doors
• Maintain positive working relationships with customers, contractors, suppliers, and other employees
• Operate equipment such as forklifts and aerial lifts
• Pull, push, or pry structural steel members into approximate positions for bolting into place
• Unload and position prefabricated steel units for hoisting as needed and use a rope to guide them into position
• Verify vertical and horizontal alignment of structural-steel members, using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, and/or levels

Other Requirements

Preferably, they should have had a Valid Driver’s License

Employer’s Statement

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer – females, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation, gender identity.

Note: Reports to Shop Foreman, Shop or Project Manager, and Trades Manager