Mason/Bricklayer

About the role

William Vaughan Company is assisting a General Contractor based in Holland, OH in searching for a Concrete Finisher. The role involves smoothing and finishing concrete surfaces to complete construction projects from start to finish, requiring a strong background in concrete construction and a commitment to high-quality results.

Responsibilities

• Assistance with ordering concrete when needed
• Basic understanding of concrete additives: understanding the benefits; Do’s and Don’ts
• Placing Concrete: signaling truck drivers, moving chutes for concrete placement, electronic buggying
• Exterior Concrete Finishing: screeding, bull-floating, darby, joint tooling, edge tooling, broom finishing, contraction joint sawcutting
• Interior Concrete Finishing: hand screeding, understanding laser screed placement processes, understanding concrete pumping process, hand troweling, walk-behind machine troweling
• Placing forms to the correct line and grade to ensure the required depth and pitch is achieved
• Monitoring the effect of heat, wind and cold on curing concrete to ensure high-quality results
• Understanding the affects of cold-weather concrete placement: The Do’s & Don’ts
• Installing anchor bolts, steel plates, and grouting base plates
• Polishing surfaces using smoothing materials, abrasive tools and surfacing machines
• Aligning forms for sidewalks, curbs and gutters, including ADA ramps
• Compacting materials using plate tampers
• Applying hardening and sealing compounds to cure the surface of concrete
• Supervising and training workers to help shore up the team

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience working with concrete
• Demonstrated expertise and proficiency in various concrete applications, including but not limited to: curbs, sidewalks, ADA curb ramps, approaches, concrete pavement, large building slab pours, elevated slab pours, stamped/decorative concrete, and more
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
• Engages in efficient time management to ensure tasks are prioritized based on importance and urgency

Skills

• Ability to layout and picture frame edging on sidewalks
• Decorative concrete experience
• Ability to operate ride-on power trowel
• Ability to operate laser screed
• Ability to read plans and think critically with such information in the field
• Ability to form, brace, place,