Stonemason

Stonemason: $39/hour

Full-time

Education:

No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience:

7 months to less than year

Responsibilities:

Tasks

  • Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units
  • Estimate materials, labour, tools and equipment
  • Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing
  • Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
  • 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
  • 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

Personal suitability

  • Reliability
  • Team player

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

Grounds Maintenance Supervisor

$27.50/hr

Full-time

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

Responsibilities

Tasks

  • Direct planting of trees, gardens and lawns
  • Hire, supervise and schedule staff
  • Organize planting of trees, gardens and lawns
  • Plan and direct grounds maintenance
  • Organize and direct planting of trees, gardens and lawns
  • Plan and estimate labour and materials
  • Plan, manage and supervise landscape construction work
  • Maintain work records and logs
  • Tender and administer contracts
  • Establish work schedules and procedures
  • Requisition or order materials, equipment and supplies
  • Resolve work problems, provide technical advice and recommend measures to improveproductivity and product quality