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O*NET detailed work activityCut metal components for installation
Stays humanHands-on work
15 jobs18 tasks
This is physical, in-person work with real objects, tools, equipment and places that change from day to day. AI can't do it for you.
Part of Cut materials, under the O*NET work activity group Handling and Moving Objects. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 18 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Cut, thread, or hammer pipes to specifications, using tools such as saws, cutting torches, pipe threaders, or pipe benders.
- Cut pipe and lift up to fitters.
- Cut rods to required lengths, using metal shears, hacksaws, bar cutters, or acetylene torches.
- Cut pipes to required lengths.
- Cut metal division strips and press them into the terrazzo base for joints or changes of color to form designs or patterns or to help prevent cracks.
- Cut and fit wire mesh or fabric, using hooked rods, and position fabric or mesh in concrete to reinforce concrete.
- Cut metal or wood framing and trim to size, using cutting tools.
- Cut and screw together metal channels to make floor or ceiling frames, according to plans for the location of rooms or hallways.
- Cut and attach mounting strips, metal or wood moldings, rubber gaskets, or metal clips to surfaces in preparation for mirror installation.
- Cut rails to specified lengths, using rail saws.
- Measure and cut metal lath to size for walls and ceilings, using tin snips.
- Cut or weld metal.
- Cut metal division strips, and press them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern.
- Cut prefabricated sections of framework, rails, and other components to specified dimensions.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Measure, cut, and bend wire and conduit, using measuring instruments and hand tools.
- Measure, cut, thread and assemble new pipe, placing the assembled pipe in hangers or other supports.
- Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
- Cut damaged sections of pipe with cutters, remove broken sections from ditches, and replace pipe sections, using pipe sleeves.