STEEL REINFORCEMENT WORKER

. Positions and secures steel bars in concrete forms to reinforce concrete: Determines number, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions.

. Selects and places rods in forms, spacing and fastening them together, using wire and pliers.

. Cuts bars to required lengths, using hacksaw, bar cutters, or acetylene torch.

. May bend steel rods with handtools or rodbending machine.

. May reinforce concrete with wire mesh.

. May weld reinforcing bars together, using arc-welding equipment.