A Steel Fitter also referred to as the Structural fitter fabricates and constructs structural metal or steel items. Working in machine shops, construction companies, and shipyards, these workers fulfill the following duties mentioned on the Steel Fitter Resume – interpreting blueprints, and determining how to build items to design, measuring all metal pieces, and ensuring they conform with needed specifications, installing and aligning steel parts by hand and by using various tools, lifting metal pieces into place using craned or hoists, welding pieces together using proper tools and safety equipment; and creating metal parts to specifications.
While the duties performed vary from industry to industry, the needed skills to execute them are universally common and include the following – measuring skills, the ability to use math skills to translate blueprints into physical metal pieces, attention to detail, mechanical abilities, and communication skills. The ability to work with all types of hand, power, welding, and measuring tools are a must. Employers seek those who are above 18 years of age with some kind of education such as a high school diploma or GED.
Objective : Hard-working and skilled fitter to fabricate, fit, and assemble the structural components of various mechanical systems. Propane service tech for ferrellgas and Milton Propane. steel worker at bay ship building. Machinest and pipe fitter at palmer johnson yachts.
Skills : Painting, Landscaping, Basic Handyman.
Description :
Analyzed engineering drawings, blueprints, specifications, sketches, work orders, and material safety data sheets to plan layout, assembly, and welding operations.
Clamped, hold, tack-weld, heat-bend, grind or bolt component parts to obtain required configurations and positions for welding.
Dismantled metal assemblies or cut scrap metal, using thermal-cutting equipment such as flame-cutting torches or plasma-arc equipment.
Ignited torches or start power supplies and strike arcs by touching electrodes to metals being welded, completing electrical circuits.
Preheated workpieces prior to welding or bending, using torches or heating furnaces.
Prepared all material surfaces to be welded, ensuring that there is no loose or thick scale, slag, rust, moisture, grease, or other foreign matter.
Removed rough spots from workpieces, using portable grinders, hand files, or scrapers.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
Welding
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : Mig, Tig, and Arc weld Operate overhead cranes Use cutting tools, grinders, and torches Basic blue print reading Position, align and fit parts Operate forklifts and man lifts.
Skills : Welding, Using A Cutting Torch.
Description :
Assembled hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
Cut, bend, or welded steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
Dismantled structures or equipment.
Fabricated metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
Forced structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
Hoisted steel beams, girders, and columns into place, using cranes, or signal hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural-steel members.
Readed specifications or blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, or sizes of materials required.
Unloaded and positioned prefabricated steel units for hoisting as needed.
Verified vertical and horizontal alignment of structural steel members, using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, or levels.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Condition
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : Seeking employment with a company that requires a strong sense of responsibility, detail oriented with growth potential, rewards achievement of organizational goals, and allows opportunities for advancement.
Skills : Construction roofing, Framing, Warehouse exsperince gard worker.
Description :
Fited and assembled structural frameworks and housings from materials, such as angle iron, I-beams, and plate steel, using handtools and welding equipment and following blueprint specifications: Examines blueprints and materials list to obtain parts specifications.
Lays out parts dimensions on worktable, using square, chalk line, and soapstone.
Tack-welds scrap metal to outline to provide jig for assembly.
Positioned parts in jig and files, chisels, and grinds parts, as indicated, to fit them together.
Responsible for reading the blueprint for the next job and making the layout.
Read a tape measurer to the 16th of an inch, We also were required to tack weld certian items for the welders to come behind us and weld into place.
Had never done any work with welding.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
Condition
Steel Fitter Resume
Objective : Prep and Paint industrial components with minimal supervision. Installing drop ceilings, false walls, and other finishing touches in new buildings to help prepare them for occupancy by tenants.
Skills : Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook.
Description :
Craned rigging and signaling Performed steel fitting and tack welding Read blue prints according to specifications Cut steel using torches and cutting .
Fited steel parts into Bridge beams grinding ability to read blueprints tape measures metric and standard.
Fited sections of the barges together, put in brackets, cut holes for openings, made sure all support brackets and beams lined up per blueprints.
Refreshed welding and cutting skills Skills Used Blueprint reading, cutting torch, mig and stick welding, use of fitting tools.
Read blueprints and tack welding.
Grinded - using 9 inch grinder.
Cut and welded steel to correct measurements.
Experience
0-2 Years
Level
Entry Level
Education
High School
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : As a Steel Fitter, responsible for installing steel beams, joists, girders, or other structural components in new buildings and reinforcing existing structures with steel bars and bolts.
Skills : Sound knowledge of local and state building codes.
Description :
Manufactured of structural steel from blueprints with minimum supervision.
Operated track torches, using chain falls/chain jacks to support weight and maneuver metal pieces for instalment.
Welded metal with either stick or MIG welding process.
Used pneumatic power tools such as nine inch grinders, four inch grinders, needle guns and pencil grinders.
Steel fitting, Welding/Fabrication Produce welds with efficiency, maintain quality welds, communicate with coworkers, attention to detail, read job .
Oxy fuel cutting, fire watching, crane unloading, stick welding, record safety hazards and solutions daily.
Assembled light fixtures, while working together with team members to get orders done correctly and on time.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
High School Diploma
Steel Fitter Resume
Summary : As a Steel Fitter, responsible for installing the steel and other materials that make up a building frame. Work closely with architects, contractors, and engineers to ensure that all of the pieces fit together properly and nothing is missing when construction is complete.
Skills : Knowledge of engineering science and technology.
Description :
Performed winter repair work on 1000 ft vessels and new tug and barge construction.
Included 100 ton and below crane operations, blue print reading, certified welding experience(mig and arc) and safe torching .
Had also have my class 7 forklift license, maneuvering multiple types of forklifts for several years.
Fabricated and weld metal Read blueprints.
Framed, welded, cutting, and fitting steel.
Used Mig welding, reading tape measures and torching.
Read blueprints to complete task at hand.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
GED
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : As a Steel Fitter, responsible for assemble hoisting equipment or rigging, such as cables, pulleys, or hooks, to move heavy equipment or materials.
Skills : Excellent communication, time management, and organizational skills.
Description :
Read/interpret shop drawings, cut, grind, weld, and polish steel to specifications, regular use of tape measure to 16th of an inch.
Able to work alone or with help; ability to meet deadlines.
Placed the correct size pieces of steel in place according to blueprint specifications then tac them in place and grind of any scars Accomplishments.
Installed domes, ladders, containment rails, draft numbers, rubbed bars, bulkheads, rakes and stearns on river barges, read blueprints.
Experienced and safe usage of 5 and 7.5 ton overhead cranes Very safe and efficient.
Fitted and fabricated steel parts for powerhouse on chemical barge.
Maintained high levels of production in beam drilling using a radial arm drill press.
Basic arc welding to build steel structures to a blueprint.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
GED
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : As a Steel Fitter, responsible for supervising the fabrication department for welding, buffing, new structure development activities, installation, repairing, finishing, and maintaining various structures, fixtures, and machines.
Skills : Exceptional welding and Mechanical skills.
Description :
Analyzed the blueprints for mechanical systems to determine the specifications of the components to be constructed.
Constructed structural components from raw materials.
Used welding equipment to fuse structural components.
Inspected fabricated components to ensure that they are the correct size.
Utilized shears, power saws, cutting torches, and chipper knives to cut structural components as needed.
Created a suitable maintenance schedule and performing system maintenance accordingly.
Conducted diagnostic testing on malfunctioning systems to determine the root cause of the malfunction.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
GED
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : As a Steel Fitter, repairing malfunctioning mechanical systems, and evening out any rough spots on the fabricated components using grinders, hand files, and scrapers.
Skills : Design skills and knowledge.
Description :
Connected columns, beams, and girders with bolts, following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
Pulled, pushed, or pry structural steel members into approximate positions for bolting into place.
Hoisted steel beams, girders, or columns into place, using cranes or signaling hoisting equipment operators to lift and position structural steel members.
Verified vertical and horizontal alignment of structural steel members, using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, or levels.
Cut, bend, or weld steel pieces, using metal shears, torches, or welding equipment.
Bolt aligned structural steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place.
Forced structural steel members into final positions, using turnbuckles, crowbars, jacks, or hand tools.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
GED
Steel Fitter Resume
Headline : Over 4-9 years of working experience in construction & fabrication of industrial equipment and instrument panels industry. Knowledge of manufacturing and installation of mechanical equipment/welded steel components like boilers, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, large food containers, pipes, rotary equipment etc.
Skills : Physical strength and Stamina.
Description :
Unloaded and positioned prefabricated steel units for hoisting, as needed.
Erected metal or precast concrete components for structures, such as buildings, bridges, dams, towers, storage tanks, fences, or highway guard rails.
Fabricated metal parts, such as steel frames, columns, beams, or girders, according to blueprints or instructions from supervisors.
Drove drift pins through rivet holes to align rivet holes in structural steel members with corresponding holes in previously placed members.
Dismantled structures or equipment.
Ride on girders or other structural steel members to position them, or use rope to guide them into position.
Inserted sealing strips, wiring, insulating material, ladders, flanges, gauges, or valves, depending on types of structures being assembled.
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