Bricklayers
Lay bricks, concrete blocks, stones and other similar materials to build or repair walls, arches, chimneys, fireplaces and other works according to plans and specifications.
Your physical endurance, your love for precision work, as well as your ability to work in a team, will make you an outstanding construction worker!
Description
Bricklayers lay bricks, concrete blocks, stone and other similar materials to construct or repair walls, arches, chimneys, fireplaces and other structures in accordance with blueprints and specifications. They are employed by construction companies and bricklaying contractors or they may be self-employed.
Profile(s)
- Conventional
- Realistic
- Social
Each profession is associated with a combination of three initial letters corresponding to one of the six RIASEC profiles. Profile combinations are determined based on skills, fields of interest and certain personality traits.
Main tasks
- Read sketches and blueprints to calculate materials required
- Cut and trim bricks and concrete blocks to specification using hand and power tools
- Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, stone, structural tiles and similar materials to construct or repair walls, foundations and other structures in residential, industrial and commercial construction
- 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
- Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing to walls or other surfaces
- Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
- Lay bricks or other masonry units to build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations
- May restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures.
Training
DIPLOMA OF VOCATIONAL STUDIES (DVS)
Masonry – Bricklaying
Description of the Masonry – Bricklaying program
To register for Masonry – Bricklaying
More information
More information on this job on IMT online
This trade is in highest demand in these regions:
- Capitale-Nationale
- Mauricie
- Estrie
- Chaudière-Appalaches
- Centre-du-Québec
- Grande région de Montréal