Career Details

Industrial Ironworker

Description

An ironworker works comfortably at heights that often reach 2000 feet or higher, recognizes safety-related issues and equipment; masters proper and safe use of a variety of hand and hydraulic, pneumatic, and electrical power tools; recognizes various structural shapes, such as wide-flange beam sections and a variety of fastening materials and their proper uses; directs and assembles different types of mobile and tower construction cranes, creates and develops complex rigging plans for heavy structural steel lifts; effectively communicates hoisting operations using verbal and hand signals; plumbs and aligns steel structures to tolerances set by AISC Code of Standard Practices; fits, bolts, and welds structural members; identifies and interprets a wide variety of blueprint components; calculates weights of a variety of structural shapes, and recognizes the functions and limitations of a wide variety of hoisting equipment and welding processes.

Certifying Organization

National Center for Construction Education and Research

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Certificates

Certificate name

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Worker Assessment

Certifying Organization

National Center for Construction Education and Research

Type

Core

Brickmasons and Blockmasons

Median Annual Income

$59,640

Projected Job Growth

+3 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances, to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures.

RealisticConventional

Carpenters

Median Annual Income

$56,350

Projected Job Growth

+4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.

RealisticConventional

Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers

Median Annual Income

$50,720

Projected Job Growth

-1 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.

RealisticConventional

Construction Laborers

Median Annual Income

$45,300

Projected Job Growth

+8 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, and clean up rubble, debris, and other waste materials. May assist other craft workers.

RealisticConventional

Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers

Median Annual Income

$55,700

Projected Job Growth

+3 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fireproofing, or acoustical material.

RealisticConventional

Insulation Workers, Mechanical

Median Annual Income

$53,920

Projected Job Growth

+5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Apply insulating materials to pipes or ductwork, or other mechanical systems in order to help control and maintain temperature.

RealisticConventional

Sheet Metal Workers

Median Annual Income

$58,780

Projected Job Growth

+2 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

RealisticConventional

Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Median Annual Income

$62,760

Projected Job Growth

+4 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

High school diploma or equivalent

Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.

RealisticConventional

Fence Erectors

Median Annual Income

$44,410

Projected Job Growth

+5 %

Career Cluster(s)

Construction

Most Common Education Level

No formal educational credential

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.

RealisticConventional