Stonemason
Code 7113.1
Stonemasons manually carve and assemble stone for construction purposes. While CNC operated carving equipment is the industry standard, artisanal carving for ornamental stone is still done manually.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- building codes
- types of stone for working
Skills and competences
- create cutting plan
- inspect construction supplies
- inspect stone surface
- interpret 2D plans
- interpret 3D plans
- maintain work area cleanliness
- mark stone workpieces
- prepare stone for smoothing
- secure working area
- polish stone by hand
- regulate cutting speed
- follow health and safety procedures in construction
- work ergonomically
- transport construction supplies
- use stonemason's chisel
- use safety equipment in construction
Transversal competences
- operate grinding hand tools
- use measurement instruments
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences