Bricklayer

Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language:
English
- Hours:
40 hours per week
- Education:
Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience:
5 years or more
- or equivalent experience
**Work setting**:
- Construction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:
- Bricklayer Trade Certification
- Bricklayer Red Seal Certificate
**Transportation/travel information**:
- Valid driver's licence
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Reliability
- Team player
**Screening questions**:
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- What is the highest level of study you have completed?
- What is your current field of study?
- What is your current level of study?
**Financial benefits**:
- As per collective agreement