Metal Plate Workers, and Riveters
What they do most days?
Seals seams with caulking compound, smoothes welds, fixes metal doors, metal collars, portholes, tank and hatch covers and performs other metal plate finishing tasks using a variety of hand and power tools.
Selects suitable rivets and rivets together metal plates and girders.
Uses hydraulic jacks to position and align metal platework or frame for welding and bolting.
Uses machine tools to bend, curve, punch, drill and straighten metal plate as required.
Cuts metal plate to markings using hand or machine tools.
Examines drawings and specifications and uses rules, scribes and punches to mark out metal plate with guidelines and reference points.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.