Job Description:

• 1) Constructs, maintains, and demolishes elevated structures, such as smokestacks, water tanks, and steeples, according to specifications: Climbs ladder attached to structure; assembles and climbs interlocking ladder; constructs and climbs scaffolding tower around structure; attaches block and tackle to cable, fastened on structure or on boom of adjoining erection tower; or uses crane to hoist self in boatswain chair.

• 2) Positions and welds fabricated steel sections to structure; lays bricks and lines concrete brick and stone chimneys; fills mortar joints of fractures; installs lightning protection devices; applies paint and waterproofing solutions; sandblasts to clean and polish; positions and nails ladders, rails, and scaffolding to structure; or constructs and repairs roofs, using such roofing materials as asphalt and shingles.

• 3) Demolishes structure by any of following methods: Dismantles sections and chutes section to ground; cuts out section of base, shores up with timbers, and dynamites or burns timbers to collapse structure; or cuts structure at base, using cable attached to block and tackle fastened to boom of adjoining erection tower, to lower structure to ground.