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O*NET detailed work activityWeld metal components
Stays humanHands-on work
14 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 Join parts using soldering, welding, or brazing techniques, 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
- Assemble pipe sections, tubing, or fittings, using couplings, clamps, screws, bolts, cement, plastic solvent, caulking, or soldering, brazing, or welding equipment.
- Connect pipe pieces and seal joints, using welding equipment, cement, or glue.
- Attach pipes to walls, structures, or fixtures, such as radiators or tanks, using brackets, clamps, tools, or welding equipment.
- Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
- Bend steel rods with hand tools or rod-bending machines and weld them with arc-welding equipment.
- Weld metal parts together, using portable gas welding equipment.
- Bell, bead with power hammers, or weld pressure vessel tube ends to ensure leakproof joints.
- Bolt or arc weld pressure vessel structures and parts together, using wrenches or welding equipment.
- Weld sections of track together, such as switch points and frogs.
- Bolt or weld steel rails to the walls of shafts to guide elevators, working from scaffolding or platforms.
- Use equipment designed to join sheet metal, such as spot welders.
- Weld small pipes or special piping, using specialized techniques, equipment, or materials, such as computer-assisted welding or microchip fabrication.
- Operate cutting torches and welding equipment, while working with conduit and metal components to construct devices associated with electrical functions.
- Weld broken or cracked frames together, using oxyacetylene torches and welding rods.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Fasten 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.
- Perform minor plumbing, welding, or concrete mixing work.
- Cut or weld metal.
- Fasten roof panel edges or machine-made moldings to structures by nailing or welding.