Description

The Mason will be responsible for working with various materials on a job site, specifically stone, concrete, and tile. The use of bricks, concrete blocks, concrete, and other natural and manmade stones to build walkways, walls, fences, and several other masonry structures. They may need to be able to build items needed and can identify serious issues like cracks in mortar or water damage from tiny fissures between stones.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that surfaces are well-prepared before beginning a job
• Cutting, shaping, and dressing materials as well as installing materials on needed locations
• Supervising the fabrication; maintaining, altering, and repairing of walls, sidewalks, street curbs, floors, sink counters, bathroom showers, and other related structures or surfaces

• Operating equipment such as a forklift, dump truck, and flatbed
• Reading blueprints and drawings to accurately calculate materials needed
• Making sure all expansion joints are filled with appropriate caulking materials
• Ensuring that surfaces are cleaned and polished with the necessary hand or power tools
• Laying out patterns, forms, or foundations following plans

• Staying up to date with all safety procedures and regulations, and following them rigorously

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Proficient written and oral communication skills according to skill requirements
• Possess strong computer skills, able to read, write, and comprehend written instructional documents
• Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume
• Ability to apply concepts of introductory algebra and geometry
• Proficient Microsoft Office productivity suite

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• At least two years of related experience required

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged period of standing, bending, reaching, and working with hands

• Occasional periods of prolonged exposure to loud noises
• Ability to lift up to 75 pounds at times
• Ability to stand, walk, and reach with arms and hands as necessary
• Ability to hear and see to position and safety requirement levels
• Occasional exposure to elements such as heat, cold, noise, dust, dirt, and chemicals

Special Qualifications/Requirements:

• Must be able to successfully pass as required a federal, state, or local government's background investigation

Disclaimer:

The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time, or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information

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