Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools.

Other names for Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers: Field Ironworker, Iron Worker, Ironworker, Laborer, Operating Engineer, Reinforced Ironworker, Reinforcing Metal Worker, Reinforcing Rod Layer, Rod Buster, Rodman, Steel Tier, Welder,

• Position and secure steel bars, rods, cables, or mesh in concrete forms, using fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools.
• Space and fasten together rods in forms according to blueprints, using wire and pliers.
• Determine quantities, sizes, shapes, and locations of reinforcing rods from blueprints, sketches, or oral instructions.
• Place blocks under rebar to hold the bars off the deck when reinforcing floors.
• Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches.
• Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete.
• Bend steel rods with hand tools and rodbending machines, and weld them with arc-welding equipment.

• Blow torches
• Adjustable widemouth pliers
• Air compressors
• Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus
• Bending machines
• Below the hook device
• Bending machines
• Bolt cutters
• Caulking guns
• Fall protection lanyard
• Pry bars
• Power saws
• Power drills
• Grease guns
• Saws
• Hard hats
• Hickeys
• Hole saws
• Wire or cable cutters
• Wire lug crimping tool
• Power saws
• Metal cutters
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers
• Pneumatic hammer
• Bending machines
• Protective gloves
• Hickeys
• Wire or cable cutters
• Slings
• Safety harnesses or belts
• Scaffolding
• Cutting machines
• Sockets
• Swaging tools
• Blow torches
• Hoists
• Utility knives
• Welders
• Conduit benders
• Workshop cranes
• Pry bars

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