Concrete Worker

Your Job

Looking for on-the-job training to advance your career while getting paid? Are you skilled with diverse physical tasks? Do you work efficiently and pay attention to detail?

We're looking for concrete workers who are responsible for smoothing out, leveling and finishing freshly poured concrete at construction sites. If you're familiar with this work and can handle it with skill and care to produce quality workmanship, then is role has your name on it.

Your Day

Concrete Worker responsibilities may include the following :

• Smoothing out concrete in segments to ensure the concrete poured is level.
• Filling roadways, driveways, sidewalks, bridges, homes, and parking lots.
• Arranging the concrete forms and spreading concrete.
• Leveling it using special blades, making sure all lumps and bubbles are smoothed over.
• Using wood or plastic forms to shape the concrete and hold it until it is set.
• Smoothing high spots and fill depressions, washing away excess concrete.
• Making concrete beams, columns, and panels.
• Finishing corners by hand.
• Applying latex and epoxy to floors.
• Using machines that vibrate concrete to fill air pockets.
• Using groovers and hand trowels to spread concrete.
• Monitoring how the wind, heat, or cold affects the curing of the concrete and halting concrete pouring if weather looks bad.
• Installing masonry according to specifications.
• Using chemical additives to speed up drying process, if necessary, or pouring sand in as filler.
• Standing, kneeling, and bending for long periods of time.

You will need to have the following :

Your Gain

What you may gain while on the job :

Your Experience

1 Year