Steel Reinforcement Fixer

You cut, bend and tie reinforcement for foundations, columns, slabs and small bridge decks. The day covers reading the bending schedule, checking bar diameters and lengths against it, setting the spacers so the concrete cover is right, tying the cages with a hook or a battery tier, and guiding the finished cage into the formwork with the crane signaller. You keep the offcuts in the scrap bay, count what is placed before each pour and stop the pour together with the foreman when a bar is missing. The crew works 07:00-15:30 from Monday to Friday, with paid Saturdays when concrete is booked.

Trade school in construction or two years on a reinforcement crew

Reading a bending schedule and a simple reinforcement drawing

Cutting, bending and tying by hook and by battery tier

Working at height on scaffold and on a slab edge with a harness

Physically fit for outdoor work in summer heat and in winter

Driving licence B is welcome but not required

Basic English or Macedonian for the daily site briefing

Net salary from 427 up to 470 EUR per month

Permanent contract with the trial period counted as service

Paid Saturdays and paid overtime on pour days

Warm meal on site and drinking water in the summer months

Transport from Kumanovo to the site and back

Accommodation in a shared flat for workers from outside the area

Helmet, harness, gloves, boots and rainwear provided

A fixer who reads the schedule without help leads a crew of four within two years, and the contractor pays for the crane signaller course, which is the usual next step on site.

Open sites with a fenced bending yard, a covered bench for the cutting machine and a heated container for breaks. Helmet, harness, gloves and steel toe boots are mandatory and supplied by the employer.