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O*NET detailed work activityFabricate parts or components
Stays humanHands-on work
28 jobs36 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Fabricate devices or components, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 36 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Cut new or duplicate keys, using impressions or code key machines.
- Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.
- Construct controllers and panels, using power drills, drill presses, taps, saws, and punches.
- Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.
- Construct or fabricate parts, using hand tools, according to specifications.
- Fabricate metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
- Fabricate and dismantle parts, equipment, and machines, using a cutting torch or other cutting equipment.
- Fabricate parts and test aids as required.
- Fabricate needed parts or items from sheet metal.
- Dry and bake new linings by placing inverted linings over burners, building fires in ladles, or by using blowtorches.
- Construct foundation for machines, using hand tools and building materials such as wood, cement, and steel.
- Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.
- Fabricate parts for watches and clocks, using small lathes and other machines.
- Shape metal material over anvils, blocks, or other forms, using hand tools.
- Fabricate or modify defective electronic, electrical, or mechanical components, using bench lathe, milling machine, shaper, grinder, or precision hand tools, according to specifications.
- Fabricate new metal parts, using drill presses, engine lathes, and other machine tools.
- Set up and operate machine tools to repair or fabricate machine parts, jigs, fixtures, or tools.
- Shape seams, joints, or irregular edges of pressure vessel sections or structural parts to attain specified fit of parts, using cutting torches, hammers, files, or metalworking machines.
- Fabricate, dress down, or substitute parts or major new items to modify equipment to meet unique operational or research needs, working from job orders, sketches, modification orders, samples, or discussions with operating officials.
- Fabricate well casings.
- Shape or fabricate parts, such as stacks, uptakes, or chutes, to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, or piping to premises, using heavy-metalworking machines such as brakes, rolls, or drill presses.
- Fabricate replacements for worn or broken parts, using welders, lathes, drill presses, or shaping or milling machines.
- Finish parts, using hacksaws or hand, rotary, or squaring shears.
- Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates or structure parts, using hammers, jacks, or torches.
- Design, weld, and fabricate parts, using blueprints or other mechanical plans.
- Fabricate defective sections or parts, using metal fabricating machines, saws, brakes, shears, and grinders.
- Fabricate concrete beams, columns, and panels.
- Make wood replacement parts, using woodworking machines and hand tools.
- Build fiberglass or wooden enclosures for sound components, and fit them to automobile dimensions.
- Rewind coils on cores in slots, or make replacement coils, using coil-winding machines.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Cut, thread, or hammer pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders.
- Fabricate or install metal sashes or moldings for glass installation, using aluminum or steel framing.
- Thread conduit ends, connect couplings, and fabricate and secure conduit support brackets, using hand tools.
- Weld, repair, and fabricate equipment or machinery.
- Repair, fabricate, and install steel or wood fittings, using blueprints, shop sketches, and instruction manuals.
- Mold or install ornamental plaster pieces, panels, or trim.