What are the responsibilities and job description for the Concrete Finisher position at Mays Concrete, Inc.?
Essential Position Functions And Responsibilities
- Smoothes and finishes surfaces of poured concrete floors, walls, sidewalks or curbs to specified textures, using hand tools or power tools, including floats, trowels and screeds.
- Signals concrete deliverer to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete.
- Moves discharge chute of truck to direct concrete into forms.
- Spreads concrete into inaccessible sections of forms, using rake or shovel.
- Levels concrete to specified depth and workable consistency, using handheld or power screed and floats.
- Smoothes and shapes surfaces of freshly poured concrete, using straightedge and float or power screed.
- Finishes concrete surfaces, using power trowel, or wets and rubs concrete with abrasive stone to impart finish.
- Removes rough or defective spots from concrete surfaces, using power grinder or chisel and hammer, and patches holes with fresh concrete or epoxy compound.
- Molds expansion joints and edges, using edging tools, jointers and straightedge.
- May sprinkle colored stone chips, powdered steel or coloring powdered on concrete to produce prescribed finish.
- May produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
- May mix cement, using hoe or concrete-mixing machine.
- May direct sub grade work, mixing of concrete and setting of forms.
- May specialize in finishing steps and stairways.
- May break up and repair old concrete surfaces, using pneumatic tools.
- May spread premixed cement over deck, inner surfaces, joints and crevices of various substrata.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
- Minimum Education and Experience: must have working knowledge of grades, screeding, floating, finishing concrete slabs, curbs, etc.
- Tools, Equipment, or Machines Required to Operate: must own personal hand tools. Must be able to run trowel machines.
- Physical Requirements:
- General: walk, stand, sit, stoop, kneel, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects or tools, reach with hands and arms, talk, listen, hear, read, see, lift, bend, climb in/out of equipment.
- Lifting: 80 to 100 pounds at least one time daily or as necessary.
- Exposure to Elements: heat, cold, rain, snow.
- Handling of Dangerous Equipment: loaders, small cranes (boom trucks), trowel machines, powered hand tools.
- Other Hazardous Working Conditions: none
- Scheduled Work Hours: Monday -- Friday, usually 6:30-7 am to 3-3:30 pm unless directed by supervisor. Some Saturday and overtime work may be required