Job Description:

• 1) Surveys and marks construction site, and constructs concrete buildings, using surveying instruments, blueprints, handtools, and power tools, working as member of crew: Reads structural specifications, such as blueprints, building plans, sketches, and plot maps of site location to ascertain dimensions of structure and types of materials to be used.

• 2) Measures and bolts together wooden or metal sections to form walls, windows, and door frames, using handtools and power tools.

• 3) Surveys excavation site to ensure specified angles and dimensions of structure footings, using surveying instruments, such as transit and theodolite.

• 4) Measures distances to points, using steel tape, and records station numbers, distances, and elevations in logbook.

• 5) Stakes corners of building site and signals BULLDOZER OPERATOR I to excavate area to specified depth.

• 6) Lays building and wall footings and trues corners, using plumb bob and string, chalk, stakes, footing and wall forms, and hammer.

• 7) Signals CONCRETE-MIXING-TRUCK DRIVER and guides pouring chute that dumps cement into wall and footing cavities.

• 8) Smooths tops of poured cement, using trowel.

• 9) Removes wooden forms after cement has dried to free walls and footings, using hammer.

• 10) Sprays asphalt on outer wall surfaces and footings to waterproof structures.

• 11) Installs subgrade drainage tile and connects tile to specified points at sewer drain.