__ Realistic Occupations: Brickmasons and Blockmasons
order to ensure leakproof joints. Lay out plate, sheet
steel, or other heavy metal and locate and mark bend-
ing and cutting lines, using protractors, compasses,
and drawing instruments or templates. Install man-
holes, handholes, taps, tubes, valves, gauges, and
feedwater connections in drums of water tube boil-
ers, using hand tools. Study blueprints to determine
locations, relationships, and dimensions of parts.
Straighten or reshape bent pressure vessel plates and
structure parts, using hammers, jacks, and torches.
Shape seams, joints, and irregular edges of pressure
vessel sections and structural parts in order to attain
specifi ed fi t of parts, using cutting torches, hammers,
fi l e s , a n d m e t a l w o r k i n g m a c h i n e s. P o s i t i o n , a l i g n ,
and secure structural parts and related assemblies to
boiler frames, tanks, or vats of pressure vessels, fol-
lowing blueprints. Locate and mark reference points
for columns or plates on boiler foundations, follow-
ing blueprints and using straightedges, squares, tran-
sits, and measuring instruments. Shape and fabricate
parts, such as stacks, uptakes, and chutes, in order
to adapt pressure vessels, heat exchangers, and pip-
ing to premises, using heavy-metalworking machines
such as brakes, rolls, and drill presses. Clean pressure
vessel equipment, using scrapers, wire brushes, and
cleaning solvents.
GOE—Interest Area/Cluster: 02. Architecture and
Construction. Work Group: 02.04. Construction
Crafts. Other Jobs in! is Work Group: Brickma-
sons and Blockmasons; Carpet Installers; Cement
Masons and Concrete Finishers; Commercial Divers;
Construction Carpenters; Crane and Tower Opera-
tors; Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers; Electricians;
Fence Erectors; Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood,
and Hard Tiles; Floor Sanders and Finishers; Gla-
ziers; Hazardous Materials Removal Workers; Insu-
lation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall; Insulation
Workers, Mecha nic a l; Ma nu fact u red Bu i ld ing a nd
Mobile Home Installers; Operating Engineers and
Other Construction Equipment Operators; Painters,
Construction and Maintenance; Paperhangers; Pav-
ing, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators;
Pile-Driver Operators; Pipe Fitters and Steamfi tters;
Pipelayers; Plasterers and Stucco Masons; Plumbers;
Plumbers, Pipefi tters, and Steamfi tters; Rail-Track
Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators;
Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickma-
sons; Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers; Riggers;
Roofers; Rough Carpenters; Security and Fire Alarm
Systems Installers; Segmental Pavers; Sheet Metal
Workers; Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufactur-
ing; Stonemasons; Structural Iron and Steel Work-
ers; Tapers; Terrazzo Workers and Finishers; Tile and
Marble Setters.
Skills: Repairing; Installation; Equipment Mainte-
nance; Operation Monitoring; Mathematics; Trou-
bleshooting; Operation and Control; Equipment
Selection.
Education and Training Program: Boilermak-
ing/Boilermaker. Related Knowledge/Courses:
Building and Construction; Mechanical Devices;
Engineering and Technology; Design; Physics;
Transportation.
Work Env ironment : Noisy; very hot or cold; con-
taminants; minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings; stand-
ing; using hands on objects, tools, or controls.Brickmasons and Blockmasons
! Personality Code: RCI
! Education/Training Required: Long-term
on-the-job training
! Annual Earnings: $44,070
! Beginning Wage: $26,370
! Earnings Growth Potential: High
! Growth: 9.7%
! Annual Job Openings: 17,569
! Self-Employed: 24.5%
! Part-Time: 7.9%Lay and bind building materials, such as brick,
structural tile, concrete block, cinderblock, glass
block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and
other substances to construct or repair walls, par-
titions, arches, sewers, and other structures. Con-
struct corners by fastening in plumb position a corner
pole or building a corner pyramid of bricks and fi llingRealistic–
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