Job Description
- Enforce safety rules and regulations on and off job site
- Install formwork and place & finish concrete to build footings, floors, walls, columns, beams and sidewalks.
- Read and interpret plans and drawings as they pertain to concrete work
- Lay out work using string lines, chalk lines, tapes and levels
- Excavate footings by machine and by shovel
- Load or unload construction materials
- Grade the base material as needed, install moisture barrier and wire mesh
- Place rebar and post-tensioning systems
- Finish concrete as specified, such as steel trowel finish, broom finish and picture framing
- Common tools used are joiners, edging tools, saws, concrete rakes and trowels
- Applying sealing and hardening components
- Perform site clean-up
- Inspect subordinate’s work for compliance and/or deficiencies
- Complete work safely, with quality and within productivity specifications as directed by the foreman or superintendent
- Working conditions include digging with shovels, spreading concrete with rakes, lifting and placing heavy materials, working at height, starting at early hours and working outdoors
- This is not a complete list of activities or responsibilities that will be required