Concrete Finisher

Essential Position Functions And Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• Minimum
  
  Education and Experience:
  
  must have working knowledge of grades, screeding, floating, finishing concrete slabs, curbs, etc.
• Tools, Equipment, or Machines Required to Operate: must own personal hand tools. Must be able to run trowel machines.
• Physical Requirements:
• 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.
• Lifting: 80 to 100 pounds at least one time daily or as necessary.
• Exposure to Elements: heat, cold, rain, snow.
• Handling of Dangerous Equipment: loaders, small cranes (boom trucks), trowel machines, powered hand tools.
• Other Hazardous
  
  Working Conditions:
  
  none
• 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