Job Description

Job Title: Concrete Finisher (NOC 73100)

Employer: C.R. Enterprises Ltd.

Employer Address: 160 Enterprise Dr, Yellowknife, NWT X1A 0E9

Terms:

Vacancies: 4

Job Location:  Various locations in Yellowknife, NWT. Transportation provided by employer.

Anticipated start date: Spring 2024 (exact start date depending on weather)

Wage:   $32 to $34/hr (Salary based on experience, increases based on performance).

Benefits: Dental, Extended Medical, life insurance, employer provides accommodations, living out allowance (LOA). Employer covers relocation costs.

Hours of Work: 30 to 60 hrs/week, weather dependent.

Employment terms: Permanent, Full-time, Overtime, early morning, morning, day, evening, weekend

Requirements:

Language: English

Education: Not required

Experience: 3 years of relevant experience

Worksite Environment: Dusty, outdoors, noisy

Major Work Area: Sidewalks, curbs, and gutters, residential, commercial, industrial

Types of Materials Used: Colours and sealers, Hardeners and epoxies, Reinforcing membrane and protective covering

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities: Physically demanding, Handling heavy loads, bending, crouching, kneeling, Standing for extended periods, Attention to detail

Weight Handling: up to 23 kg (50 lbs)

Personal Suitability: Team Player

Own Tools/Equipment: Steel-toed safety boots

Duties:

• Placing forms that hold concrete to ensure the required depth and pitch are achieved
• Monitoring the effect heat, wind, and cold have on curing concrete to ensure high-quality results
• Removing edges on expansion joints and sides
• Installing anchor bolts, steel plates, and other fixtures in freshly poured concrete
• Polishing surfaces using smoothing materials, abrasive tools, and surfacing machines
• Aligning forms for sidewalks, curbs, and gutters
• Waterproofing, damp-proofing, and restoring concrete surfaces
• Compacting materials using power vibrators to create leveled bases
• Finishing concrete surfaces with rough or smooth patterns depending on the customer's preference
• Signaling truck drivers and moving chutes to facilitate pouring concrete onto forms
• Casting and spreading concrete to patch voids
• Applying hardening and sealing compounds to cure the surface of the concrete
• Check formwork, granular base and steel reinforcement materials and direct placement of concrete into forms or onto surfaces according to grade
• Fill hollows and remove spots on freshly poured cement
• Operate power vibrators to compact concrete
• Level top surface concrete according to grade and depth specification
• Install anchor bolts, steel plates, door sills and other fixtures
• Apply hardening and sealing components to cure surfaces
• Waterproof, damp proof and restore surfaces
• Repair, resurface and replace worn or damaged sections of concrete structures
• Erect and dismantle concrete forms, scaffolding, ramps, catwalks shoring and barricades

How to apply:

By email: karin@crenterprises.ca

By mail: 160 Enterprise Dr, Yellowknife, NWT X1A 0E9

By Fax:  1.867.669.0229

Veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces, Visible minorities, Indigenous people, and Newcomers to Canada are welcome to apply.