Trades
Bricklayer
$40.00 to $45.00 hourly
Pay is above the local median for this work ($38.00 an hour; Job Bank, 2023–2024)
What the posting asks for
- English
From the posting's details in Job Bank's open data. The full ad is on Job Bank.
Hours and terms
- Full time
Usually needed for this kind of work
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a three- to four-year apprenticeship program ora combination of over four years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in bricklaying is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
- Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified bricklayers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.
From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Bricklayers (NOC 72320). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.
What this work usually involves
- 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
About the employer
- Region: Lower Mainland–Southwest Region
Job Bank's search for this title and town usually shows this ad first.
From Job Bank.