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Occupation

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters.

$58,970 medianBright outlookHigh school

O*NET 31.0 · 47-2171.00

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

  1. 01Bend steel rods with hand tools or rod-bending machines and weld them with arc-welding equipment.
  2. 02Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions.
  3. 03Space and fasten together rods in forms according to blueprints, using wire and pliers.
  4. 04Use forklifts or cranes to move construction material, such as rebar.
  5. 05Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches.
  6. 06Unload rebar from trucks.
  7. 07Place blocks under rebar to hold the bars off the deck when reinforcing floors.
  8. 08Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, or hand tools.
  9. 09Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete.

Task statements ranked by how many workers report them · O*NET 31.0

What the posting will be called

Iron InstallerIron WorkerIronworkerRodbusterField IronworkerIronworker JourneymanIronworker LaborerReinforced IronworkerRod BusterSteel Tier

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Knowledge the job leans on

Building and ConstructionMathematicsDesignPublic Safety and SecurityEngineering and TechnologyProduction and ProcessingEnglish LanguageAdministration and Management

Skills that carry over from service

CoordinationOperation and ControlJudgment and Decision MakingTime ManagementOperations MonitoringComplex Problem SolvingQuality Control AnalysisSocial Perceptiveness