Finisher

Concrete Finisher Position

Essential Position Functions and Responsibilities :

1. Smoothes 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.

General Job Duties :

• Signals concrete deliverer to position truck to facilitate pouring concrete.
• Moves discharge chute of truck to direct concrete into forms.
• Spreads concrete into inaccessible sections of forms, using rake or shovel.
• Levels concrete to specified depth and workable consistency, using handheld or power screed and floats.
• Smoothes 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, powdered steel or coloring powdered on concrete to produce prescribed finish.
• May produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
• May mix cement, using hoe or concrete-mixing machine.
• May direct sub grade work, mixing of concrete and setting of forms.
• May specialize in finishing steps and stairways.
• May break up and repair old concrete surfaces, using pneumatic tools.
• May spread premixed cement over deck, inner surfaces, joints and crevices of various substrata.
• Performing other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements :

1. Minimum Education and Experience : must have working knowledge of grades, screeding, floating, finishing concrete slabs, curbs, etc.

2. Tools, Equipment, or Machines Required to Operate : must own personal hand tools. Must be able to run trowel machines.

3. Physical Requirements :

a. General : walk, stand, sit, stoop, kneel, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects or tools, reach with hands and arms, talk, listen, hear, read, see, lift, bend, climb in / out of equipment.

b. Lifting : 80 to 100 pounds at least one time daily or as necessary.

c. Exposure to Elements : heat, cold, rain, snow.

d. Handling of Dangerous Equipment : loaders, small cranes (boom trucks), trowel machines, powered hand tools.

e. Other Hazardous Working Conditions : none.

f. Scheduled Work Hours : Monday Friday, usually 6 : 30-7 am to 3-3 : 30 pm unless directed by supervisor. Some Saturday and overtime work may be required.

Judgment / Decision Making : occasional.

Supervision :

1. Position Receives Direction From : Structural superintendent and foreman. Other supervision may be received.

2. Position Directs : none.

ALL EMPLOYMENT IS AT-WILL, MEANING THAT EITHER THE EMPLOYEE OR EMPLOYER MAY TERMINATE THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP AT ANYTIME WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE OR PRIOR NOTICE.