Canada's Building Trades Unions

Also called Structural Metal and Platework Fabricator and Fitter

Steel plate fabricators create, assemble, fit and install steel or other metal construction components. They typically:

• prepare patterns based on blueprints and drawings
• set up and operate a variety of heavy duty metal-working machines
• cut, bend, drill and otherwise form plate to create component sections
• align and weld or otherwise connect the sections into finished components
• install the fabricated components in the final product

Steel plate fabricators shape metal plate into components for buildings, bridges, tanks, towers, boilers and other similar structures and products.

CAREER INFORMATION

• www.careersinconstruction.ca/profiles/ironworker

Represented by the following CBTU affiliates:

• International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers