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- NOC 2006 Version 1.0
7282 – Concrete Finishers
Concrete finishers smooth and finish freshly poured concrete, apply curing or surface treatments and install, maintain and restore various masonry structures such as foundations, floors, ceilings, sidewalks, roads, patios and highrise buildings. They are employed by construction companies, cement and concrete contractors and manufacturers of precast concrete products, or they may be self-employed.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Apprentice cement finisher
- Cement finisher
- Cement finisher apprentice
- Cement mason
- Cement mason apprentice
- Cement mason, highways and streets
- Cement mason, maintenance
- Concrete finisher
- Concrete finisher apprentice
- Concrete floor finisher
- Concrete mason
- Concrete patcher-finisher
- Concrete polisher
- Concrete smoother-finisher
- Finisher, cement
- Finisher, concrete
- Finisher, concrete floors
- Finisher, concrete products
- Highway and street cement mason
- Journeyman/woman cement finisher
- Maintenance cement mason
- Mason, cement
- Mason, concrete
- Precast concrete finisher
- Sidewalk concrete finisher
- Cement finisher apprentice
- Cement mason
- Concrete finisher
- Concrete mason
- Precast concrete finisher
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Concrete finishers perform some or all of the following duties:
- Check formwork, granular base and steel reinforcement materials and direct placement of concrete into forms or onto surfaces according to grade
- Fill hollows and remove high spots to smooth freshly poured concrete
- Operate power vibrator to compact concrete
- Level top surface of concrete according to grade and depth specifications using straightedge or float
- Impart desired finish to concrete surfaces using hand and power tools
- Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete
- Apply hardening and sealing compounds to cure surface of concrete
- Waterproof, damp-proof and restore concrete surfaces
- Repair, resurface and replace worn or damaged sections of floors, walls, roads and other concrete structures.
Employment requirements
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a two- to four-year apprenticeship program or Over three years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in cement finishing are usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
- Trade certification is compulsory in Quebec and available, but voluntary, in all other provinces.
- Interprovincial trade certification (Red Seal) is also available to qualified concrete finishers.
Additional information
- Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
- Red Seal trade certification allows for interprovincial mobility.
Exclusions
- Bricklayers (7281)
- Concrete products machine operators (in 9414 Concrete, Clay and Stone Forming Operators)
- Supervisors of concrete finishers (in 7219 Contractors and Supervisors, Other Construction Trades, Installers, Repairers and Servicers)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 7 – Trades, Transport and Equipment Operators and Related Occupations
- Skill level
- B – Occupations usually require college education or apprenticeship training.
- Major group
- 72 – Trades and Skilled Transport and Equipment Operators
- Minor group
- 728 – Masonry and Plastering Trades
- Version
- NOC 2006 Version 1.0