A professional who tends portable concrete-mixing machine and handcasts ornamental and structural concrete building products, such as blocks, colored tile, simulated-brick facings, fireplace units, and reinforced roof and floor sections. Respnsibilities include:

• Shovels sand, cement, gravel, or pumice into mixing machine.
• Adds water and pigments as instructed and starts machine.
• Dumps mix into wheelbarrow and pushes to casting room.
• Brushes casting oil on molds to prevent adhesion of concrete.
• Casts products by any of following methods:
• (1) Places molds on vibrating table, shovels mix into molds, starts vibrator to settle concrete or pumice, levels surface of mix with wood bar, and carries filled molds to curing racks.
• (2) Shovels mix into floor molds and sets reinforcing steel rods into mix to cast fireplace, roof, or floor sections. Dismantles forms after concrete has cured, using pry bar and wrench.
• (3) Places bricks into mold and pours concrete over bricks to form solid block.

• Sets reinforcing rods in mix and clamps mold shut.
• Removes forms after blocks are cured by releasing clamps or disassembling mold, using pry bar and wrench.
• May be designated according to product cast as brick veneer maker; cement-tile maker.