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Career Details :: Stonemasons
Description
Build stone structures, such as piers, walls, and abutments. Lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Mixes mortar or grout and pours or spreads mortar or grout on marble slabs, stone, or foundation.
- Sets stone or marble in place, according to layout or pattern.
- Smoothes, polishes, and bevels surfaces, using hand tools and power tools.
- Cleans excess mortar or grout from surface of marble, stone, or monument, using sponge, brush, water, or acid.
- Digs trench for foundation of monument, using pick and shovel.
- Lays out wall pattern or foundation of monument, using straightedge, rule, or staked lines.
- Removes sections of monument from truck bed and guides stone onto foundation, using skids, hoist, or truck crane.
- Shapes, trims, faces, and cuts marble or stone preparatory to setting, using power saws, cutting equipment, and hand tools.
- Positions mold along guidelines of wall, presses mold in place, and removes mold and paper from wall.
- Finishes joints between stones, using trowel.
- Lines interiors of molds with treated paper and fills molds with composition-stone mixture.
- Repairs cracked or chipped areas of ornamental stone or marble surface, using blowtorch and mastic.
- Aligns and levels stone or marble, using measuring devices, such as rule, square, and plumb line.
- Drills holes in marble or ornamental stone and anchors bracket.
Related Careers
- Drywall Installers
- Helpers, Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
- Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
- Rough Carpenters
- Ship Carpenters and Joiners
- Tile and Marble Setters
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Handling and Moving Objects
- Controlling Machines and Processes
- Drafting & Specifying Technical Devices, etc.
- Operating Vehicles or Equipment
Important Skills
Frequent Work Context
- Using Hands on Objects, Tools, Controls
- Outdoors
- Hazardous Situations
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Importance of Being Sure All Is Done
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