A professional who performs any combination of following tasks to assemble metal furniture. Responsibilities include:

• Drills holes in parts, such as backrests, covers, and seats, using power drill and template.
• Fits parts together and fastens them temporarily with clamps and presses.
• Bolts, staples, or screws parts together, using handtools, such as pliers, wrenches, pneumatic screwdrivers, and staplers.
• Rivets parts together, using hand or pneumatic hammer.
• Inserts such parts as casters and scuff plates into holes or slots.
• Bends fastening devices and fits interlocking parts together with hammer or rubber mallet or by striking parts against floor or workbench.
• Applies cement to cushions and covers, using brush or spray gun, and joins parts by hand.
• Pulls and fastens drawstrings, wires, or springs to join precut upholstery covers to armrests, seats, and other parts, using handtools.
• Inserts drawers into slides and adjusts slides to fit drawer surfaces.
• Packs furniture for shipment.
• May bend metal parts, using bending machine.
• May be designated according to parts assembled as backrest assembler; seat assembler; or according to type of metal furniture assembled as art metal-chair assembler; office-chair assembler; metal table assembler.