About this role
Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate.
Tasks
- Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units.
- Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Work conditions and physical capabilities: Physically demanding.
- Bending, crouching, kneeling.
- Personal suitability: Accurate.
- Client focus.
- Reliability.
- Team player.
- Employment terms options: Morning.
- Experience: Experience an asset.
- Employment terms options: Day.
- Weekend.
- Support for newcomers and refugees: Does not require Canadian work experience.
- Support for youths: Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth.
- Support for Indigenous people: Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers .