该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 阅读蓝图和规格以布置工作
• 卸载和定位钢制单元，以便根据需要吊装每一件
• 架设和安装脚手架、起重设备和索具
• 信号起重机操作员根据蓝图定位钢单元
• 对齐并焊接或用螺栓固定钢单元
• 用于建筑物、桥梁、塔和其他结构的竖立结构和建筑预制混凝土构件
• 组装和架设预制金属结构
• 在混凝土模板中定位和固定钢筋或金属网以加固混凝土结构
• 安装装饰性和其他结构性金属制品，例如幕墙、金属楼梯、栏杆和电动门
• 检查结构和设备是否存在劣化、缺陷或不符合规范的情况
• 可以拆除结构和设备。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 完成两到三年的学徒计划或三年以上的行业工作经验以及一些高中、大学或行业的铁加工课程通常需要有资格获得行业认证。
• 钢铁工人（通才）的行业认证在艾伯塔省是强制性的，但在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、安大略、马尼托巴和不列颠哥伦比亚省是自愿的。
• 钢铁工人（钢筋）行业认证在魁北克和阿尔伯塔是强制性的，但在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、安大略、萨斯喀彻温和不列颠哥伦比亚可以自愿获得。
• 钢铁工人（结构/装饰）的行业认证在艾伯塔省是强制性的，但在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、安大略、萨斯喀彻温和不列颠哥伦比亚省是自愿的。
• 在艾伯塔省，铁工（金属建筑系统安装工）的行业认证是强制性的。
• 成功完成省际红印章考试后，合格的铁工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。
• 红印章背书允许跨省流动。

• 锅炉制造商 ( 72103)
• 结构金属和板材制造商和装配工 ( 72104)
• 金属装配工工头/女工；铁工主管（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 blueprints and specifications to lay out work
• Unload and position steel units so each piece can be hoisted as needed
• Erect and install scaffolding, hoisting equipment and rigging
• Signal crane operator to position steel units according to blueprints
• Align and weld or bolt steel units in place
• Erect structural and architectural precast concrete components for buildings, bridges, towers and other structures
• Assemble and erect prefabricated metal structures
• Position and secure steel bars or metal mesh in concrete forms to reinforce concrete structures
• Install ornamental and other structural metalwork such as curtain walls, metal stairways, railings and power doors
• Examine structures and equipment for deterioration, defects or non-compliance with specifications
• May dismantle structures and equipment.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a two- to three-year apprenticeship program or over three years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in ironworking are usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification for ironworker (generalist) is compulsory in Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia.
• Trade certification for ironworker (reinforcing) is compulsory in Quebec and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
• Trade certification for ironworker (structural/ornamental) is compulsory in Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
• Trade certification for ironworker (metal building systems erector) is compulsory in Alberta.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified ironworkers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Boilermakers (72103)
• Structural metal and platework fabricators and fitters (72104)
• Metal fitters foreman/woman; ironwork supervisor (in 72010 Contractors and supervisors, machining, metal forming, shaping and erecting trades and related occupations)