Elements and Performance Criteria
- Review and clarify fabrication plans
- Interpret fabrication plans
- Interpret plan, work requirements and sequencing for application to assembly work.
- Confirm layouts, spacing and sizing of individual structural members.
- Allow for quantities of bracing and ancillaries for trusses or frames.
- Interpret timber and hardware component details.
- Identify, locate and label bracing points.
- Establish a need for camber.
- Confirm work order and fabrication plan
- Follow workplace health and safety procedures throughout production activities.
- Select and prepare set-up jigs required for construction.
- Identify truss, floor or frame types and select timber type and species in line with plan.
- Locate and select assembly hardware in line with fabrication plans and standards.
- Visually assess characteristics and design details of material against plan.
- Reject and dispose of sub-standard materials in line with environmental protection practices.
- Discuss common site problems and suggest solutions for better meeting design requirements.
- Confirm products to fabrication plan
- Set components to include camber adjustments, overhang and other design requirements.
- Position and install hardware on joints in line with plan specifications.
- Correct assembly faults in line with site procedures.
- Assess finished product for quality against assembly drawing and label in line with work order.
- Record and report assessment outcomes to appropriate personnel.