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Job Description
Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 47-2051.00
- The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 43,720.00
- The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 21.00
- Currently, there are 173,920 people on this job
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers”.
Also Known As…
- Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers
- Mason
- Finisher
- Concrete Mason
- Concrete Finisher
- Cement Mason
- Cement Finisher
- Swimming Pool Installer
- Operator
- Joint Setter
- Joint Finisher
- Floor Grinder
- Float Operator
- Equipment Operator
- Curb Builder
- Concrete Swimming Pool Installer
- Concrete Stone Finisher
- Concrete Smoother
- Concrete Rubber
- Concrete Polisher
- Concrete Pointer
- Concrete Placement Equipment Operator
- Concrete Grinder Operator
- Concrete Floor Installer
- Concrete Floater
- Concrete Fence Builder
- Column Precaster
- Cementer
- Cement Patcher
- Cement Mason Apprentice
- Cement Gun Operator
- Block Mason
Tasks for “Concrete Finisher Apprentice”
- Fabricate concrete beams, columns, and panels.
- Apply muriatic acid to clean surface, and rinse with water.
- Monitor how the wind, heat, or cold affect the curing of the concrete throughout the entire process.
- Build wooden molds, and clamp molds around area to be repaired, using hand tools.
- Polish surface, using polishing or surfacing machine.
- Direct the casting of the concrete and supervise laborers who use shovels or special tools to spread it.
- Produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
- Cut metal division strips, and press them into terrazzo base so that top edges form desired design or pattern.
- Cut out damaged areas, drill holes for reinforcing rods, and position reinforcing rods to repair concrete, using power saw and drill.
- Mix cement, sand, and water to produce concrete, grout, or slurry, using hoe, trowel, tamper, scraper, or concrete-mixing machine.
- Clean chipped area, using wire brush, and feel and observe surface to determine if it is rough or uneven.
- Wet surface to prepare for bonding, fill holes and cracks with grout or slurry, and smooth, using trowel.
- Spread roofing paper on surface of foundation, and spread concrete onto roofing paper with trowel to form terrazzo base.
- Wet concrete surface, and rub with stone to smooth surface and obtain specified finish.
- Signal truck driver to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete, and move chute to direct concrete on forms.
- Check the forms that hold the concrete to see that they are properly constructed.
- Mold expansion joints and edges, using edging tools, jointers, and straightedge.
- Chip, scrape, and grind high spots, ridges, and rough projections to finish concrete, using pneumatic chisels, power grinders, or hand tools.
- Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
- Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete or pattern or stamp the surface to provide a decorative finish.
- Waterproof or restore concrete surfaces, using appropriate compounds.
- Push roller over surface to embed chips in surface.
- Set the forms that hold concrete to the desired pitch and depth, and align them.
- Apply hardening and sealing compounds to cure surface of concrete, and waterproof or restore surface.
- Spread, level, and smooth concrete, using rake, shovel, hand or power trowel, hand or power screed, and float.
- Operate power vibrator to compact concrete.
Related Technology & Tools
- Measuring tapes
- Scarifiers
- Fresno trowels
- Cement trowels
- Masons levels
- Concrete pumps
- Electric generators
- Barrel mounted sprayers
- Driveway squeegees
- Cure sprayers
- Right angle grinders
- Rock hoppers
- Rebar benders
- Lightweight laydown buckets
- Square point shovels
- Utility knives
- Concrete chutes
- Pool trowels
- Magnesium channel bull floats
- Mortar and plaster mixers
- Diesel concrete saws
- Ride-on concrete buggies
- Gutter forms
- Transit mix deflectors
- Slipform curbing pavers
- Brick tongs
- Round end trowels
- Notebook computers
- Jitterbug tampers
- Double-beam screeders
- Screeds
- Straightedges
- Measuring wheels
- Core drills
- Collection hoppers
- Hydraulic material spreaders
- Grapevine jointers
- Vibrating wet screeds
- Walk-behind concrete breakers
- Masonry saws
- Steel forms
- Rebar cutters
- Crack saws
- Wet screeds
- Surface concrete vibrators
- Edgers
- Portable gas drills
- Wheelbarrows
- Screwdrivers
- Brick splitters
- Vibrating concrete screeds
- Low rider power trowels
- Power troweler blades
- Long handle shovels
- Diamond blades
- General purpose concrete buckets
- Slipforming machines
- Brick hammers
- Slump buckets
- Stippling brushes
- Groovers
- Torpedo levels
- Concrete vibrators
- Aluminum floats
- Dumper riders
- Sidewalk forms
- Gas generators
- Grinders
- Ladders
- Abrasive rubbing stones
- Multipurpose saws
- Abrasive blades
- Hammers
- Power floats
- Ride-on trowels
- Chain saws
- Concrete mixers
- Braces
- Roofing buckets
- Form liners
- Personal digital assistants PDA
- Channel floats
- Post hole diggers
- Round-gate concrete buckets
- Spirit levels
- Gas concrete saws
- Truss screeds
- Concrete routers
- Finishing screeders
- Bump cutters
- Concrete texture rollers
- Hydraulic concrete breakers
- Hand clamps
- Walk-behind concrete buggies
- Concrete tampers
- Dust respirators
- Bar benders
- Walk-behind laser screeds
- Edging trowels
- Drain spades
- Pointing trowels
- Brick jointers
- Concrete saws
- Water pumps
- Wooden forms
- Rubber floats
- D handle shovels
- Compression sprayers
- Desktop computers
- Roller tube finishers
- Cold chisels
- Tile setter trowels
- Crowbars
- Internal concrete vibrators
- Steel trowels
- Lifting systems
- Bar cutters
- Ride-on saws
- High-speed saws
- Form tubes
- Grout pumps
- Walk-behind power trowels
- Concrete finishing brushes
- Round point shovels
- Glittermaster guns
- Grout mixers
- Concrete floats
- Pavement stripers
- Form braces
- Tuck-pointing trowels
- Bit spades
- Center discharge floor hoppers
- Masons jointers
- Elephant trunks
- Concrete spreaders
- Pneumatic air nailers
- Notched trowels
- Wood floats
- Combo buckets
- Pry bars
- Spreaders
- Ride-on concrete breakers
- Brick trowels
- Maxwell Systems Quest Estimator
- LogicSphere Firstmix
- Sirus GT Construction Accounting
- ACT Contractors Forms
- ADAPT-Modeler
- Tradesman's Software Master Estimator
- National Concrete & Masonry Estimator
- Shilstone seeMIX
- Hard Dollar HD Project Estimating
- HIPERPAV