Concrete Finisher

Granite Construction•Humble, TX

24d•Onsite

About The Position

Smooths and finishes surfaces of poured concrete floors, walls, sidewalks, or curbs to specified textures, using hand tools or power tools including floats, trowels, and screeds. This role involves spreading concrete to a specified depth and workable consistency, leveling, smoothing, and shaping surfaces of freshly poured concrete. The finisher will also remove rough or defective spots, patch holes, and mold expansion joints and edges. Depending on the project, responsibilities may include sprinkling colored stone chips or coloring powder for a specific finish, creating a rough concrete surface with a broom, mixing cement, or directing subgrade work and concrete mixing. Specializations may include step finishing or cement mason maintenance involving concrete repair.

Requirements

Work rapidly and accurately with hands
Follow set procedures and standards
Compare and see differences in size, shape, and form of lines, figures, and objects
Picture objects from drawings or diagrams
Rate information using standards that can be measured or checked
Calculate amounts of concrete required for each job
Work within precise limits or standards of accuracy
Climb and maintain body balance
Use hands and arms fully
Stand, kneel, bend, crawl, or crouch for long periods
See well (either naturally or with correction)

Responsibilities

Spreads concrete to specified depth and workable consistency, using float to bring water to surface and produce soft topping.
Levels, smooths, and shapes surfaces of freshly poured concrete, using straightedge and float or power screed.
Finishes concrete surfaces, using power trowel, or wets and rubs concrete with abrasive stone to impart finish.
Removes rough or defective spots from concrete surfaces, using power grinder or chisel and hammer and patches holes with fresh concrete or epoxy compound.
Molds expansion joints and edges, using edging tools, jointers, and straightedge.
May sprinkle colored stone chips, powered steel, or coloring power on concrete to produce prescribed finish.
May produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
May mix cement, using hoe or concrete-mixing machine.
May direct subgrade work, mixing of concrete, and setting of forms, performing duties as described under Group Leader.
May specialize in finishing steps and stairways and be designated as Step Finisher.
May break up and repair old concrete surfaces, using pneumatic tools and be designated Cement Mason Maintenance.