A professional who forges and repairs variety of metal articles, such as tongs, edged tools, hooks, chains, machine and structural components, and agricultural implements as specified by work orders, diagrams, or sample parts. Respnsibilities include:

• Heats metal stock in blacksmith's forge or furnace.
• Hammers stock into specified size and shape on blacksmith's anvil or positions stock on anvil of power hammer and depresses pedal to hammer stock with varying force and rapidity.
• Forge-welds metal parts by heating and hammering them together.
• Devises jigs and fixtures, forges special handtools, such as hammers or chisels, and sets up form blocks.
• Tempers or anneals forged articles.
• May record type of repair or fabrication of tools or machine components performed during work shift to maintain daily activity report and records.
• May cut, assemble, and weld metal parts, using arc or acetylene welding equipment.
• May repair farm machinery and be designated farm blacksmith.
• May be designated according to articles forged as special-trackwork blacksmith; tool-dresser.