Bricklayer

Education & Experience

Secondary (high) school graduation certificate or equivalent experience.

Work Environment

• Outdoors, noisy and dusty construction sites.
• High‑rise building construction sites in rural and urban areas.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, structural tiles or other masonry units.
• Estimate materials, tools and equipment required for projects.
• 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 or install firebricks to line industrial chimneys and smokes...