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Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Tools and Technology


Tools Include:

  • Adjustable widemouth pliers
  • Adjustable wrenches
  • Air compressors
  • Blow torches
  • Bolt cutters
  • Form tools or toolbits (Bull pins)
  • C clamps
  • Punches or nail sets or drifts (Center punches)
  • Chalk lines
  • Cold chisels
  • Squares (Combination squares)
  • Pry bars (Crowbars)
  • Power saws (Cutoff saws)
  • Punches or nail sets or drifts (Drift pins)
  • Ear plugs
  • Power drills (Electric drills)
  • Files
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Screwdrivers (Flat screwdrivers)
  • Forging tooling (Forges)
  • Plaster or mortar mixers (Grout mixers)
  • Saws (Hacksaws)
  • Hammers
  • Hard hats
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • Jacks
  • Ladders
  • Levels (Laser levels)
  • Life vests or preservers (Life preservers)
  • Notebook computers
  • Open end wrenches
  • Personal computers
  • Screwdrivers (Phillips head screwdrivers)
  • Pipe wrenches
  • Plumb bobs
  • Pneumatic hammer (Pneumatic hammers)
  • Power grinders
  • Lifts (Power lifts)
  • Protective coveralls
  • Safety harnesses or belts (Protective harnesses)
  • Respirators
  • Rivet tools (Rivet busters)
  • Rivet tools (Rivet guns)
  • Tongs (Rivet tongs)
  • Screwdrivers (Robertson screwdrivers)
  • Welding tools (Rod ovens)
  • Mallets (Rubber mallets)
  • Safety harnesses or belts (Safety belts)
  • Safety boots
  • Safety glasses
  • Protective gloves (Safety gloves)
  • Fall protection lanyard (Safety lanyards)
  • Scaffolding
  • Scribers
  • End cut pliers (Side cutting pliers)
  • Hammers (Sledgehammers)
  • Slings
  • Socket sets (Socket wrench sets)
  • Below the hook device (Spreader beams)
  • Specialty wrenches (Spud wrenches)
  • Squares
  • Staple guns
  • Jacks (Stressing jacks)
  • Lighters (Strikers)
  • Manlift or personnel lift (Swing stages)
  • Tape measures
  • Tinners snips (Tin snips)
  • Tongs
  • Levels (Torpedo levels)
  • Hoists (Tuggers)
  • Two way radios
  • Utility knives
  • Locking pliers (Vise grip pliers)
  • Protective gloves (Welding gloves)
  • Welding masks (Welding helmets)
  • Welding masks (Welding hoods)
  • Welders (Welding machines)
  • Welding or cutting tips (Welding tips)
  • Winches
  • Wire brushes
  • Workshop cranes

Technologies Include:

  • Accounting software
  • Turtle Creek Software Goldenseal
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Computer aided design CAD software
  • Inventory management software
  • Inventory tracking software
  • Project management software
  • Cost estimating software
  • Project scheduling software



The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)

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