Also called: Precast Ironworker, Precast Installer
Sets huge precast concrete pieces, like parking-garage beams and wall panels, with cranes and welds them together.
A crane picks up a 40-ton concrete double-tee beam and you guide it onto its bearing pads with tag lines. You weld steel connections, grout joints and move to the next piece. A parking garage can rise a floor a week.
Estimated from BLS structural iron and steel workers.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Apprenticeship, about 3 years after high school. Ironworker apprenticeship or on-the-job training.
Ways in: Apprenticeship, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). Structural iron and steel workers.
Low risk for 10 years. Precast pieces are made in factories, but setting and welding them in place with cranes stays skilled field work.
Classes: Geometry, Welding CTE.
Official data: O*NET occupation 47-2221.
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