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O*NET detailed work activityInstall metal structural components
Stays humanHands-on work
11 jobs22 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 Build structures, 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, 22 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Install various types of bolts, including truss, glue, and resin bolts, traversing entire ceiling spans.
- Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts, following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
- Bolt aligned structural steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place.
- Fabricate or install metal sashes or moldings for glass installation, using aluminum or steel framing.
- Install pre-assembled metal or wood frameworks for windows or doors to be fitted with glass panels, using hand tools.
- Erect metal or precast concrete components for structures, such as buildings, bridges, dams, towers, storage tanks, fences, or highway guard rails.
- Install horizontal and vertical metal or wooden studs to frames so that wallboard can be attached to interior walls.
- Complete top fence rails of metal fences by connecting tube sections, using metal sleeves.
- Insert metal tubing through rail supports.
- Install metal molding at wall corners to secure wallboard.
- Force structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
- Install sheet metal around insulated pipes with screws to protect the insulation from weather conditions or physical damage.
- Fasten metal or rockboard lath to the structural framework of walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings, using nails, screws, staples, or wire-ties.
- Drive drift pins through rivet holes to align rivet holes in structural steel members with corresponding holes in previously placed members.
- Install outer doors and door frames at elevator entrances on each floor of a structure.
- Install metal lath where plaster applications will be exposed to weather or water, or for curved or irregular surfaces.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, or hand tools.
- Stretch wire, wire mesh, or chain link fencing between posts, and attach fencing to frames.
- Cut and screw together metal channels to make floor or ceiling frames, according to plans for the location of rooms or hallways.
- Position, align, and secure structural parts or related assemblies to boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, following blueprints.
- Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete or pattern or stamp the surface to provide a decorative finish.
- Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.