Skills & competences

Description

Concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers erect reinforced concrete frameworks and structures, make forms for moulding concrete, reinforce concrete surfaces, cement openings in walls or casings for wells, finish and repair cement surfaces and carry out terrazzo work.
Tasks include -
(a) constructing and repairing reinforced concrete floors, walls, tanks, silos and other concrete structures;
(b) making shuttering or assembling prefabricated forms for moulding concrete;
(c) cementing openings in walls or casings for wells;
(d) finishing and smoothing surfaces of concrete structures;
(e) applying a durable smooth surfacing composed of cement, sand pigment and marble particles to floors, known as a terrazzo finish.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Cement finisher
- Concrete placer
- Terrazzo worker
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Concrete finishing machine operator - 8114
- Road surface laying machinery operator - 8342