Brickmason

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years
**Work setting**:

- Construction
- Repair
- Renovation
- Civil (road and bridge construction, etc.)
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Institutional
- Residential
**Tasks**:

- Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units
- Estimate materials, labour, tools and equipment
- Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing
- Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
- Prepare tenders and quotations
- Build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations
- Read sketches and blueprints to calculate materials required
- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Cut and trim bricks and concrete blocks to specification using hand and power tools
- Instruct apprentices
- Lay bricks or other masonry units to build residential or commercial chimneys and fireplaces
- Supervise other workers
- Lay radial bricks to build masonry shells of industrial chimneys
- Line or reline furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations using refractory or acid-resistant bricks, refractory concretes, plastic refractories and other materials
**Personal suitability**:

- Accurate
- Client focus
- Reliability
- Team player
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 30 to 40 hours per week