About this role
Sheetmetal Trades Workers mark out, shape, form and join sheetmetal and other materials to make products and components.
What you might do day-to-day in this job
Typical tasks for a Sheetmetal Trades Worker include:
- studying blueprints, drawings and specifications to determine job, material and equipment requirements
- selecting metal stock, such as stainless steel, galvanised iron, mild steel, aluminium and copper, and checking sizes, gauges and other dimensions of metal stock against specifications
- marking out metal stock with reference points and lines, using templates, gauges and other measuring instruments
- cutting metal stock along guidelines using hand and power shears, guillotines and drills
- shaping and forming cut metal stock into products using folding and bending machines, rollers, presses and hammers
- fitting and assembling components into final products by welding, riveting, soldering, brazing and otherwise joining
- finishing products by polishing, filing, sanding and cleaning assembled products
- may repair damaged sheetmetal products and components
- may specialise in fabrication, or on-site assembly and installation, of sheetmetal products
- may produce aircraft sheet metal components requiring advanced drawing and calculating skills
- may specialise in decorative copperwork.
Courses that can lead to a career as a Sheetmetal Trades Worker
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Train as a metal fabricator. Learn to weld, cut and shape metal while earning a wage through an apprenticeship.
- Apprenticeship
- On-the-job training
- 4 years
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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Learn practical skills in fitting, turning and machinery repair. Work with an employer and earn while you learn through an apprenticeship.
- Apprenticeship
- On-the-job training
- 4 years
- Cost varies
- Financial help available
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available
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- Traineeship
- On-the-job training
- 3 years
- Cost varies
- No entry requirements
- Partially online
- Part-time may be available