A professional who fabricates and repairs fixtures, rods, baskets, and hooks used to suspend articles in plating, cleansing, and painting vats, using handtools and portable power tools. Responsibilities include:

• Cuts metal stock to size, using handsaws or power saws and forming machines and following working sketches.
• Bends metal, using vise or hammer.
• Drills and taps holes, using portable power drill.
• Bolts or screws parts together, using wrenches and screwdrivers.
• May braze, solder, or weld parts together.