Sheet Metal Workers

What Does a Sheet Metal Workers Do?

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; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• 1Maintain equipment, making repairs or modifications when necessary.
• 2Fabricate ducts for high efficiency heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems to maximize efficiency of systems.
• 3Fasten seams or joints together with welds, bolts, cement, rivets, solder, caulks, metal drive clips, or bonds to assemble components into products or to repair sheet metal items.
• 4Transport prefabricated parts to construction sites for assembly and installation.
• 5Install assemblies, such as flashing, pipes, tubes, heating and air conditioning ducts, furnace casings, rain gutters, or downspouts in supportive frameworks.
• 6Hire, train, or supervise new employees or apprentices.
• 7Lay out, measure, and mark dimensions and reference lines on material, such as roofing panels, using calculators, scribes, dividers, squares, or rulers.
• 8Fabricate or alter parts at construction sites, using shears, hammers, punches, or drills.

Required Skills

• Applied Production ProFab
• Applied Production ProFold
• Autodesk AutoCAD
• Corte Certo
• FCC Software AutoPOL Series
• JETCAM Expert
• Merry Mechanization SMP/IS
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office software
• Microsoft Windows

Sheet Metal Workers Salary