Bricklayer

Education:
No degree, certificate or diploma
- Experience:
2 years to less than 3 years
**Work setting**:
- Construction
- Repair
- Renovation
- Commercial
- Industrial
- 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
- 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
- Lay bricks or other masonry units to build residential or commercial chimneys and fireplaces
- 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
**Security and safety**:
- Bondable
- Basic security clearance
- Criminal record check
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Personal suitability**:
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Reliability
- Team player
- Work Term:
Permanent
- Work Language:
English
- Hours:
35 hours per week