Full job description

• Reading blueprints or looking at sketches to determine how to install rebar or mesh
• Figuring out the quantity, size, and shapes of reinforcing rods and determining where to place them
• Preparing rebar and mesh for installation using metal shears, hacksaws, and torches
• Bending or welding rebar together
• Installing cables
• Using pliers to tie wire around rods to fasten them together
• Positioning and securing rods, cables, mesh, or rebar in concrete forms.

Reinforcing Steel Worker: Uses bolt cutters, shears, hickeys, power benders, and bending plates to cut andbend reinforcing rods to specified shapes; determines dimensions of surface to be covered with wire mesh, cuts mesh, and bends it to desired shape; places reinforcing rods, wire, and wire mesh