Job Description:

• 1) Sets stone at cemetery gravesites to erect monuments, following diagrams and written specifications: Lays out foundation for monument, using rule and staked lines.

• 2) Digs trench for foundation, using pick and shovel.

• 3) Mixes mortar and pours mortar into trench to prepare foundation for setting base stone.

• 4) Removes sections of monument from truck bed and guides stone onto foundation, using skids, hoist, or truck crane.

• 5) Aligns and levels stone, using rule, square, plumbline, wedges, and crowbar.

• 6) Spreads mortar on stone with trowel and sets subsequent sections of stone in position according to numbers or letters marked on stone.

• 7) Fills joints between stone with mortar and finishes joints, using trowel.

• 8) Removes excess mortar from monument, using water and brush.

• 9) Works as member of team to erect monuments.