Metallurgy Labourers
Job description
These individuals perform tasks related to the preparation and handling of metal materials. They are employed by:
- Steel frame manufacturers
- Heavy machinery manufacturers
- Boiler shops
- Sheet metal works
- Shipyards
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
- Equipment, machinery, tools
- Hazardous chemical
- Odours
- Humidity
- Hazardous workplaces
- Noise
- Fire, steam, hot surfaces
- Falling objects
Main tasks
- Read and interpret commands.
- Remove excess weld beads, rust, or scale from metal products.
- Identify, from a work order, the equipment needed to manufacture metal parts.
- Grind, cut, or remove excess metal from metal products.
- Polish products and soak them in cleaning solutions.
- Assist skilled tradespeople in metalworking.
- Transport raw materials and finished products.
- Sort sheets, metal components, and scrap metal.
- Clean work areas and equipment.
- Operate overhead cranes, forklifts, or other lifting equipment.
Advancement and mobility
- There is some mobility between jobs in this group.
- Experience provides opportunities for advancement to senior positions.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $17.00
- Median
- $22.00
- Maximum
- $31.00
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
6,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 12.9% Female
- 87.1% Male
Not available.
- 12.9% Female
- 87.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$41,600
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33232% of jobs
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NAICS 33118% of jobs
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NAICS 4110% of jobs
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NAICS 815% of jobs
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NAICS 3335% of jobs
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Others30% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 33232% of jobs
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NAICS 33118% of jobs
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NAICS 4110% of jobs
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NAICS 815% of jobs
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NAICS 3335% of jobs
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Others30% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
No specific training
Sometimes required
- A few years of secondary school education may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
Abilities
- Near vision
- Manual dexterity
- Core strength
- Static muscle power
- Control accuracy
- Limb coordination
- Digital dexterity
- Information organization
- Awareness of issues
- Hand-arm stability
- Oral comprehension
- Endurance
- Verbal skills
- Perception speed
- Physical flexibility in extension
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to work in a team
- Knowledge of production and treatment
- Commitment
- Sense of initiative
- Respect standards and regulations
- Commitment to quality
- Tolerance to routine work
- Timeliness
Interests
- Work manually
- Exercer une activité sportive ou physique
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 95101
Labourers in metal fabrication
Job titles
- Polishers
- Metalworking machine helper
- Labourer - metal fabrication
- Metal cleaner
- Automatic machine polisher - metal products manufacturing
- Metal fabrication worker
- Chisel grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Drill grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Machine shop bench hand - metal products manufacturing
- Bending machine helper - metal products manufacturing
- Upsetter helper - metal fabrication
- Brake helper - metal products manufacturing
- Punch press helper - metal products manufacturing
- Production helper - metal coating
- Heat treater helper
- Power hammer helper - metal fabrication
- Wire loom helper
- Shear helper - metal fabrication
- Machine shop helper - metal products manufacturing
- Fabrication shop helper - metal products
- Metal-fabricating shop helper
- Forge helper
- Drop hammer helper - metal fabrication
- Plating room helper
- Shipfitter helper
- Shipwright helper
- Structural steel fitter helper
- Structural metal fitter helper
- Boilermaker helper
- Die blanking press operator helper - metal products manufacturing
- Mechanical press operator helper - metal products manufacturing
- Plate worker helper - metal products manufacturing
- Blacksmith helper
- Galvanizer helper
- Rigger helper - shipbuilding
- Fitter helper - metal products manufacturing
- Metal structure fitter helper
- Shipbuilding fitter helper
- Metal pickler operator helper
- Welding machine operator helper
- Flame cutter helper - metal products manufacturing
- Plater helper
- Metal polisher helper
- Sherardizer helper
- Welder-fitter helper
- Welder-fitter helper - manufacturing
- Welder helper
- Battery lead burner helper
- Wire weaver helper
- Industrial sheet metal worker helper
- Wire spooler - metal products manufacturing
- Burnisher - metalworking
- Chipper-grinder
- Chipper - metal products manufacturing
- Soldering machine feeder
- Deburrer - metal products manufacturing
- Mould dresser - foundry
- Nut and bolt packer - metal products manufacturing
- Reel wrapper - wire products manufacturing
- Finish grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Nib finisher - metal products manufacturing
- Wire finisher
- Foundry mould finisher
- Metal casting finisher
- Shotblaster
- Tank calibrator - metal products manufacturing
- Hand filer - metal products manufacturing
- Hand metal filer
- Grinder and sharpener - metal products manufacturing
- Grinder-chipper - metal products manufacturing
- Grinder-deburrer
- Grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Bench grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Shot grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Mill roll grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Plate grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Pellet grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Coil spring grinder - metal products manufacturing
- Nut and bolt assembler - metal products manufacturing
- Metal bluing cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- Firearms cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- Immersion metal cleaner - metal products manufacturing
- Mould cleaner - foundry
- Cartridge parts cleaner - explosives and ammunition manufacturing
- Shotblasting machine operator - metal products manufacturing
- Aircraft bumper operator
- Sandblaster operator - metal products manufacturing
- Wheelabrator operator
- Wrapping machine operator - wire products manufacturing
- Bit sharpener tender
- Shotblasting machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- Sandblasting machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- Buffing machine tender - metal products manufacturing
- Tumbler tender - metal products manufacturing
- Hand buffer - metal products manufacturing
- Slide fastener polisher - metal products manufacturing
- Metal buffer - metal products manufacturing
- Sheet metal polisher and buffer
- Sandblaster - metal products manufacturing
- Brazing machine feeder
- Metal polishing-plating labourer
Skill type
Manufacturing and utilities
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