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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. Mark off/out light/heavy gauge fabrications
  6. Carry out development to specifications or procedures using appropriate tools and equipment
  7. Establish and indicate datum points
  8. Determine and mark allowances
  9. Make templates as required
  10. Determine and transfer allowances
  11. Produce templates to meet specifications
  12. Follow correct storage procedures, including labelling and identification to procedures
  13. Develop patterns as required
  14. Interpret relevant codes, standards and symbols
  15. Interpret and apply requirements of standards/codes to materials and processes
  16. Estimate quantities of materials from engineering drawings
  17. Estimate quantities from drawings
  18. Optimise material use and ensure wastage is minimised

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.

Light gauge fabrications include one (1) or more of the following:

square/rectangular ventilation ducting

air conditioning

cylindrical components

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

elliptical shapes

curves

spirals

Heavy gauge fabrications include one (1) or more of the following:

ducting

extraction

piping

cylindrical components

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

elliptical shapes

curves

spirals

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

thickness

bend

pitch

angle

circumference

perimeter

contraction

Template materials include one (1) or more of the following:

steel plate

perspex

timber

Templates produced include one (1) or more of the following:

rolling

bending

pressing

drilling

profiling

cutting

Storage procedures include one (1) or more of the following:

labelling

identification (e.g. template lofts)

Development methods include the following:

parallel line

radial line

triangulation