Bricklayer

**Other Languages**:

- German

**Major Work Area**:

- Renovation
- Repair
- Historical restoration
- Construction

**Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)**:

- 4th Period Apprentice
- 1st Period Apprentice
- 2nd Period Apprentice
- 3rd Period Apprentice
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- First Aid Certificate
- Driver's License
- CPR Certificate
- Bricklayer Red Seal Certificate
- Bricklayer Trade Certification
- Fall Arrest Protection Training Course

**Additional Skills**:

- Work at heights, on scaffolding or swing stages
- Supervise other workers
- Instruct apprentices
- Restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures

**Area of Specialization**:

- Fireplaces and chimneys

**Work Setting**:

- Residential
- Institutional
- Industrial
- Commercial

**Specific Skills**:

- Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units
- Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing
- Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
- Assemble, erect and dismantle scaffolding, rigging and hoisting equipment
- Read sketches and blueprints to calculate materials required
- Cut and trim bricks and concrete blocks to specification using hand and power tools
- Lay bricks or other masonry units to build residential or commercial chimneys and fireplaces
- Lay or install firebricks to line industrial chimneys and smokestacks
- Line or reline furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations using refractory or acid-resistant bricks, refractory concretes, plastic refractories and other materials

**Security and Safety**:

- Bondable
- Criminal record check

**Own Tools/Equipment**:

- Tools
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Gloves

**Transportation/Travel Information**:

- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Valid driver's licence

**Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities**:

- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling

**Health benefits**:

- Health care plan
- Dental plan
- Vision care benefits

**Long term benefits**:

- Group insurance benefits

**Screening questions**:

- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?