Duties of the Job
• Prepares surfaces prior to beginning work.
• Fabricates, alters, repairs, and maintains walls, sidewalks, street curbs, floors, bathroom showers, sink counters, partitions, manholes, and other related structures or surfaces.
• Lays blocks or bricks following blueprints, plans, or drawings.
• Determines work requirements and sequence of masonry/tile assignments through review of work orders, plans, or drawings.
• Lays out work using chalk lines, plumb bobs, tapes, squares, and levels.
• Mixes cement using hoes, cement-mixing equipment, and/or hand tools.
• Cuts or breaks bricks and concrete using hammers, powered abrasive saws, paving breakers, drills, and/or hand tools.
• Molds expansion joints and edges using edging tools, jointers, and straightedge.
• Operates equipment, such as forklift, dump truck, and flatbed.
• Estimates materials and labor.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
• Knowledge of related tools, masonry techniques, equipmen,t and materials.
• Skill in the construction, alteration, repair, and maintenance of masonry structures and surfaces.
Minimum Qualifications:
Three years’ masonry or bricklaying experience; OR, Completion of a three year federally approved technical training program in masonry or bricklaying; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or education from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.