Job Description:

• 1) Erects and repairs metal and wooden fences and fence gates around industrial establishments, residences, or farms, using power tools and handtools: Lays out fence line, using tape measure, and marks positions for postholes.

• 2) Digs postholes with spade, posthole digger, or power-driven auger.

• 3) Blasts rock formations with dynamite to facilitate digging of postholes.

• 4) Sets metal or wooden post in upright position in posthole.

• 5) Mixes concrete by hand or by use of cement mixer.

• 6) Pours concrete around base of post or tamps soil into posthole to embed post.

• 7) Aligns posts, using line or by sighting along edges of posts.

• 8) Verifies vertical alignment of posts with plumb bob or spirit level.

• 9) Attaches fence-rail support to post, using hammer and pliers.

• 10) Cuts metal tubing, using pipe cutter and inserts tubing through rail supports.

• 11) Completes top fence rail of metal fence by connecting tube sections by use of metal sleeves.

• 12) Attaches rails or tension wire along bottoms of posts to form fencing frame.

• 13) Stretches wire, wire mesh, or chain link fencing between posts and attaches fencing to frame.

• 14) Assembles gate and fastens it in position, using handtools.

• 15) Saws required lengths of lumber to make rails for wooden fence.

• 16) Nails top and bottom rails to fence posts, or inserts them in slots on posts.

• 17) Nails pointed slats to rails to construct picket fence.

• 18) Erects alternate panel, basket weave, and louvered fences.

• 19) May weld metal parts together, using portable gas welding equipment.

• 20) May be designated according to material used as Metal-Fence Erector; Wire-Fence Erector; Wooden-Fence Erector; or according to specific duty performed as Fence-Gate Assembler; Fence Setter; Fence Stretcher.