该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 阅读要执行的工程和建筑图纸、草图和工作规范，并根据图纸或模板布置、测量和标记钣金
• 使用计算机辅助设计和制图 (CAD) 软件包开发钣金图案
• 操作轻型金属加工机械，如剪床、制动器、冲床和钻床，包括用于切割、弯曲、冲孔、钻孔、成形或拉直钣金的计算机数控 (CNC) 设备
• 操作电脑激光或等离子切割设备切割金属板
• 安装和使用索具和起重设备
• 使用铆接、焊接、锡焊和类似设备安装和连接钣金零件，以制造通风井、排气罩、屋檐、隔断框架、空气和热管道、材料处理系统、屋顶平台和钣金建筑等产品
• 根据规范和建筑规范安装钣金产品
• 打磨和抛光接缝、接缝和粗糙表面
• 检查产品质量和安装以确保符合规格。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 通常需要完成三到五年的学徒计划或四年以上的行业工作经验和一些钣金加工的高中、大学或行业课程，才有资格获得行业认证。
• 在新不伦瑞克省、魁北克省、安大略省、萨斯喀彻温省和阿尔伯塔省，钣金工人的行业认证是强制性的，在所有其他省份和地区都可以，但自愿参加。
• 提供精密钣金设置操作员的行业认证，但在魁北克是自愿的。
• 成功完成省际红印章考试后，合格的钣金工人也可以获得红印章背书。

• 随着经验的积累，可能晋升到主管职位。
• 钣金工人可能专门从事钣金产品的现场安装或车间制造，或已安装设备和系统的维修和维护。
• 红印章背书允许跨省流动。

• 飞机钣金技术员（72404飞机机械师和飞机检查员）
• 锅炉制造商 ( 72103)
• 铁工 ( 72105)
• 金属加工和锻压机操作员（94105）
• 结构金属和板材制造商和装配工 ( 72104)
• 钣金工人主管（72010 承包商和主管，机械加工、金属成型、成型和安装行业及相关职业）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Read engineering and architectural drawings, sketches and work specifications to be performed, and lay out, measure and mark sheet metal according to drawings or templates
• Develop patterns for sheet metal using computer-assisted design and drafting (CAD) software package
• Operate light metalworking machines such as shears, brakes, punches, and drill presses, including computer numerical control (CNC) equipment to cut, bend, punch, drill, shape or straighten sheet metal
• Operate computerized laser or plasma cutting equipment to cut sheet metal
• Install and use rigging and hoisting equipment
• Fit and join sheet metal parts using riveting, welding, soldering and similar equipment to fabricate products such as ventilation shafts, exhaust hoods, eavestroughs, partition frames, air and heat ducts, material handling systems, roof decking and sheet metal buildings
• Install sheet metal products according to specifications and building codes
• Grind and buff seams, joints and rough surfaces
• Inspect product quality and installation to ensure conformance to specifications.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a three to five year apprenticeship program or a combination of over four years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in sheet metal working is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification for sheet metal workers is compulsory in New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and available, but voluntary, in all other provinces and the territories.
• Trade certification for precision sheet metal set-up operator is available, but voluntary in Quebec.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified sheet metal workers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• Sheet metal workers may specialize in on-site installation or shop manufacture of sheet metal products, or servicing and maintenance of installed equipment and systems.
• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Aircraft sheet metal technician (in 72404 Aircraft mechanics and aircraft inspectors)
• Boilermakers (72103)
• Ironworkers (72105)
• Metalworking and forging machine operators (94105)
• Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters (72104)
• Sheet metal workers supervisor (in 72010 Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations)