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Sheet metal worker needed for residential and commercial jobs.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Continuous learning
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- 4th Period Apprentice
- 1st Period Apprentice
- 2nd Period Apprentice
- 3rd Period Apprentice
- Sheet Metal Worker Red Seal Certificate
Additional Skills
- Supervise other workers
- Read and interpret blueprints, drawings and specifications
- Instruct apprentices
- Calculate heating and cooling loads, design duct systems and select equipment for residential and small commercial construction
Welding Techniques
- Resistance or spot welding
- Oxy-acetylene
- Gas metal ARC (GMAW) (MIG)
Specific Skills
- Operate metalworking machines to cut, punch, drill, shape or straighten sheet metal
- Measure and mark sheet metal according to template
- Inspect products to ensure quality and conformity to specification
- Determine layout of systems
- Cut materials using power tools or by hand
Areas of Specialization
- Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems
Type of Establishment/Work Setting Experience
- Shop
- Residential
- Commercial
Major Work Area
- Shop fabrication
- Retrofit
- On-site fabrication
- Installation
Other Material Joining Techniques / Equipment
- Rivets, screws, bolts
- Pop rivets
- Pin spotting equipment
- Lock formers, seamers, groovers
- High speed mechanically applied tech screws
- High-tech adhesives and glues