Concrete Mason/General Laborer

Responsibilities

• Operate hand and power tools
• Maintain a clean job site
• Assist superintendents and other team members as necessary
• Transport materials
• Prepare construction sites by cleaning obstacles and hazards
• Load or unload construction materials
• Put together and take apart temporary structures, such as scaffolding
• Remove, fill, or compact earth
• Absorb and assist craft workers/ skilled tradespeople in their duties
• Perform site clean-up
• Dig trenches, compacting earth, and backfilling holes
• Lay building materials such as concrete and brick and construct and repair surfaces or structures
• Carry out some masonry duties such as preparing surfaces before beginning a work, laying blocks or bricks in accordance with blueprints, plans, or drawings
• Use chalk lines, tapes, squares, plumb bobs, and levels; and mix cement with the use of hoes, cement-mixing equipment or any other relevant hand tools
• Assist with the preparation of concrete and mortar
• Mix grout or cement and move it to the work area
• Assist with setting the forms, arrange and align them
• Spread, level, and smooth concrete
• Clean tools and ensure all equipment is in good working condition
• Pour, smooth, and level concrete footings, walls, and flatwork
• Use trowel, floats, and screeds