The Sheetmetal Mechanic will be able to 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 inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Set up and operate machines such as drill presses, punch presses, shears, bending rolls, brakes, grinders, and numerical control equipment to shape and alter sheet metal according to specifications.
- Candidate must be able to read and interpret blueprints, rough sketches, or engineer drawings to shape metal accurately.
- Can identify various aluminum alloys, tempers, and thicknesses.
- Use hands and power tools to shape and smooth metal and to blend seams.
- Capable of setting up equipment to cut parts with straight, angle and miter cuts.
- Capable of reading and understanding decimal scales and use of scales, protractors, and calipers.
- Can understand and locate revision levels.
- Able to layout cut lines, bend lines and hole locations on sheet metal stock.
