Job Description:

• 1) Tends portable concrete-mixing machine and handcasts ornamental and structural concrete building products, such as blocks, colored tile, simulated-brick facings, fireplace units, and reinforced roof and floor sections: Shovels sand, cement, gravel, or pumice into mixing machine.

• 2) Adds water and pigments as instructed and starts machine.

• 3) Dumps mix into wheelbarrow and pushes to casting room.

• 4) Brushes casting oil on molds to prevent adhesion of concrete.

• 5) Casts products by any of following methods: Places molds on vibrating table, shovels mix into molds, starts vibrator to settle concrete or pumice, levels surface of mix with wood bar, and carries filled molds to curing racks.

• 6) Shovels mix into floor molds and sets reinforcing steel rods into mix to cast fireplace, roof, or floor sections.

• 7) Dismantles forms after concrete has cured, using pry bar and wrench.

• 8) Places bricks into mold and pours concrete over bricks to form solid block.

• 9) Sets reinforcing rods in mix and clamps mold shut.

• 10) Removes forms after blocks are cured by releasing clamps or disassembling mold, using pry bar and wrench.

• 11) May be designated according to product cast as Brick Veneer Maker; Cement-Tile Maker.