A professional who rivets together light-gauge metal parts to assemble articles, such as kitchenware, household appliances, and metal furniture, using portable riveting gun or rivet set and hammer. Responsibilities include:

• Aligns parts and inserts rivets in rivet holes.
• Positions parts with rivet head against anvil or die.
• Places die of rivet gun or rivet set over end of rivet shank.
• Presses trigger of gun or strikes end of rivet set with hammer to spread rivet over rivet hole.
• May drill or ream rivet holes, using portable drill.
• May remove defective rivets, using hand punch.