Job Overview:
Education
Journeyman Certificate.
Experience
Min 2 years experience.
On the road job
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work setting
- Construction
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Residential
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units
- 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
- Instruct apprentices
- Lay bricks or other masonry units to build residential or commercial chimneys and fireplaces
- Supervise other workers
- 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
- Restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Bricklayer Trade Certification
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver’s licence
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Physically demanding
- Handling heavy loads
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Own tools/equipment
- Tools
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Reliability
- Team player
Job Type
Full-time
Benefits
- Dental care
- Extended health care
Language
- Flexible language requirement
- French not required
Work Schedule
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Work Location
- In person
