Metal Fabricator
Trade · Perth, Australia · Full-Time · $80,000/yr
Qualified Metal Fabricator needed for a long-term construction team in Perth, delivering structural steel installation and on-site fabrication across Western Australia. You will need to back your experience with recognised credentials and proven structural steel capability, so have your documents in order.
The team wants professionals who take pride in precise work, safe practices and strong teamwork. Skilled visa sponsorship is on offer for eligible candidates once they pass a skills assessment and interview process.
Key Responsibilities
- Follow safe work practices and maintain quality standards on live construction sites
- Read and interpret structural drawings
- Understand welding symbols and fabrication specifications
- Plan fabrication work on site using work orders and project requirements
- Set up materials, tools and portable fabrication equipment
- Measure, mark and cut structural steel to accurate dimensions
- Shape, straighten and form steel plates and sections
- Assemble steel structures by bolting and welding
- Use lifting equipment and coordinate with the rigging crew to place components safely
- Carry out tack welding
- Complete final structural welds
- Weld with MMAW, GMAW, FCAW and GTAW processes when required
- Alter existing steelwork through cutting, drilling and welding
Requirements & Eligibility
- Australian work rights, or eligibility for sponsorship under Skills in Demand (subclass 482)
- Recognised trade qualification in fabrication or boilermaking
- A minimum three years of structural steel experience post-trade
- Proven MMAW, GMAW and FCAW welding competency
- Able to read structural engineering drawings
- Able to read welding specifications
- Holder of a current White Card
- Holder of a current Working at Heights certification
- Physically fit for on-site fabrication work in demanding conditions
- Current driver's licence
- Access to reliable transport
- Skilled visa sponsorship is offered to eligible candidates following a successful skills assessment and interview process
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