Career Opportunities

Sheet Metal Mechanic

Job Summary:

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.

Essential Functions:

• Determine project requirements, including scope,
• Assembly sequences, and required methods and materials, according to blueprints, drawings, and written or verbal instructions.
• Lay out, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, such as roofing panels, according to drawings or templates, using calculators, scribes, dividers, squares, and rulers.
• Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
• Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.
• Convert blueprints into shop drawings to be followed in the construction or assembly of sheet metal products.
• Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.
• Select gauges or types of sheet metal or nonmetallic material, according to product specifications.
• Maneuver completed units into position for installation and anchor the units.
• Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.
• Drill and punch holes in metal, for screws, bolts, and rivets.

Qualifications:

• Sheet metal mechanics must wear safety shoes, goggles, and other devices designed to prevent injuries and to protect them from falling objects.
• Work involves varying degrees of precision and control where damage could be considerable.
• Attention and care required to prevent injury to others and damage to surrounding equipment when performing maintenance/repair work.
• Work involves considerable stooping, bending, and working in overhead structures and on scaffolds.