Block Mason
Employer
2276 S DANIELS ROAD
HEBER CITY, UT 84032
United States
Job description
Successful applicants will become proficient at interpreting blueprints and drawings to determine specifications and materials required for job, calculating angles, and determine vertical and horizontal alignment courses, and measuring distance from reference points and mark guidelines to lay out work. They will examine structures and determine need for repair, remove damaged brick or mortar using sledgehammers, crowbars, chipping gun or chisel. Applicants will use plumb bobs, levels, laser levels, trowels, hammers, power saws, and other tools and equipment to break or cut, lay, and align bricks, tiles or blocks to size to build or repair structures. They will use wire clamps, anchor holes, torch, or cement to fasten material to structure. Position requires construction of corners by fastening in plumb position a corner pole or building a corner pyramid of bricks, and filling in between the corners using a line from corner to corner to guide each course or layer of brick or block. Applicants will mix sand, clay, dirt, grout or mortar material and will apply and smooth mixture over work surface. Applicants will grout block, remove excess mortar, and finish mortar joints with jointing tools for a sealed, uniform appearance, and will clean working surfaces using broom, wire brush, or scraper.
Special Requirements
Applicants must be of physical character able to display strength and dexterity in both arms and hands, exhibit trunk strength using abdominal and lower back muscles continually over time, as well as be able to spend the majority of the work day, outdoors in all weather, standing without giving out. Position requires the ability to understand and follow verbal and written directions with exactness and integrity. Applicants will be trained in proper wearing and use of safety guidelines, tools, and equipment including hand tools, forklifts, hearing protection, safety glasses, steel toed boots, and gloves and will be required to comply with exactness.