General Overview:

Manufactures and repairs prototype production units and specialised vehicle bodies such as buses, fire engines and caravans.

Tasks Include:

• studies vehicle body drawings, body drafts and specifications
• constructs vehicle framework sections in metal and other materials, using stretching and shrinking machinery and welding equipment
• bolts, screws, rivets or welds sections together
• cuts, shapes and attaches panels of sheetmetal, aluminium or reinforced plastic to frameworks
• may alter assembly line vehicles to special requirements