Steel Erection Ironworker

About the Company

Since 1985, Kinsley Steel has been delivering unmatched quality steel on time and on budget. Our certified and highly-skilled teams specialize in structural steel design, engineering, detailing, fabrication, erection and retrofit to existing structural members. Ironworkers place and install iron or steel beams, girders, joists, columns, metal decking, bridging, and other steel‑related materials to form buildings, bridges, and other structures. They also repair and renovate older buildings and structures.

• Read specifications and blueprints to determine the locations, quantities, and sizes of materials required.
• Verify vertical and horizontal alignment of structural‑steel members using plumb bobs, laser equipment, transits, and/or levels.
• Connect columns, beams, and girders with bolts following blueprints and instructions from supervisors.
• Hoist steel members into place using cranes or other equipment by means of proper signaling.
• Bolt aligned structural‑steel members in position for permanent riveting, bolting, or welding into place.
• Field assemble metal parts such as steel frames, columns, beams, and girders according to blueprints and/or instructions from supervisors.
• Push, pull, or pry structural‑steel members into approximate positions for final attachment.
• Cut, bend, and weld steel pieces using metal shears, torches, and welding equipment.
• Safely operate and maintain equipment (personnel and material lifts) and small tools and equipment (welding machines, torch sets, saws, grinders, hoists, etc).
• Report unsafe working practices and/or conditions.
• Check and maintain adequate gas, oil, or other fluid levels as required to keep machinery in good working order.

• Ability to weld and maintain various weld certificates as applicable, or the ability to pass required weld proficiency tests.
• Ability to understand and apply varying levels of mathematics as applicable to the position.
• Ability to, at minimum, speak and understand English in oral and written form.
• Understanding of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of proper rigging and signaling.
• Knowledge of applicable and proper use for transit, laser lever, torpedo, torque guns, welders, gas‑supplied equipment, rigging, and components.
• Possesses at minimum the following tools: bolt bag, spud wrench, bull pins, weld hood (applicable to welders only), tape measure, plumb bob, cheater bar, pliers, clamps, hammers, Bessie clamps, vise grips.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. Kinsley Steel, Inc. is a Drug Free Workplace where post‑offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria are met as outlined in our policies. Kinsley Steel, Inc. is a participant in the Federal E‑Verify Program.

$25.00 – $32.00 per hour