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Elements and Performance Criteria

  1. Determine job requirements
  2. Comply with work health and safety (WHS) requirements at all times
  3. Use appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with SOPs
  4. Identify job requirements from specifications, drawings, job sheets or work instructions
  5. Identify assembly and distortion control methods
  6. Construct jigs from engineering drawings or according to workshop practice, where required
  7. Ensure all components, tools and fixtures for fabrication assembly are available
  8. Check and assemble all components against drawings and material list
  9. Assemble fabricated components
  10. Determine datum line where necessary
  11. Apply appropriate distortion prevention/control techniques
  12. Check assembled components for position including squareness, level and alignment to specification
  13. Apply fixing/joining techniques according to SOPs
  14. Check final assembly for compliance with specifications

Range Statement

This field allows for different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Distortion prevention/control techniques includes one (1) or more of the following:

jigs

fixtures

heat

clamps

Typical applications include one (1) or more of the following:

transitions

pipe works

structural fabrication

ductwork

general jobbing work

fired and unfired pressure vessels

Components include one (1) or more of the following:

general fabricated components in either:

plate

pipe and section

sheet

Structural alignment and levelling includes one (1) or more of the following:

using planes and line straight edges

spirit levels

line levels

squares

Fixing/joining techniques include one (1) or more of the following:

welding

adhesives

fasteners

rivets