brick and stone mason

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

• 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

• Build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations

• 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 radial bricks to build masonry shells of industrial chimneys

• Lay or install firebricks to line industrial chimneys and smokestacks

• Line or reline furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations using refractory or acid-resistant bricks, refractory concretes, plastic refractories and other materials

• Restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures