该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 阅读草图和蓝图以计算所需材料
• 使用手动和电动工具按照规格切割和修整砖块和混凝土块
• 准备和铺设砖块、混凝土块、石头、结构砖和类似材料，以建造或修复住宅、工业和商业建筑中的墙壁、地基和其他结构
• 铺设砖块或其他砌体单元以建造住宅或商业烟囱和壁炉
• 铺设放射状砖砌筑工业烟囱的砌体外壳
• 铺设或安装耐火砖以衬砌工业烟囱和烟囱
• 使用耐火砖或耐酸砖、耐火混凝土、塑料耐火材料和其他材料的衬砌或改衬炉、窑炉、锅炉和类似装置
• 铺设砖块、石头或类似材料，以提供面向墙壁或其他表面的单板
• 建造和安装预制砌体单元
• 铺设砖块或其他砌块以建造庭院、花园围墙和其他装饰设施
• 可以修复、清洁或粉刷现有的砖石结构。

• 通常需要完成中学学业。
• 通常需要完成三到四年的学徒计划或四年以上的行业工作经验和一些高中、大学或行业的砌砖课程才能获得行业认证。
• 在新斯科舍省、新不伦瑞克省和魁北克省，瓦工的行业认证是强制性的，在所有其他省份和育空地区都是自愿的。
• 在纽芬兰和拉布拉多，石匠可以获得行业认证，但这是自愿的。
• 新斯科舍省提供修复石匠的行业认证，但属于自愿性质。
• 成功完成省际红印章考试后，合格的瓦工也可以获得红印章背书。

• 随着经验的积累，可能晋升到主管职位。
• 红印章背书允许跨省流动。

• 瓦工主管（在72014 承包商和主管、其他建筑行业、安装人员、维修人员和服务人员中）
• 混凝土修整机 ( 73100)
• 瓷砖工 ( 73101)

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Read sketches and blueprints to calculate materials required
• Cut and trim bricks and concrete blocks to specification using hand and power tools
• Prepare and lay bricks, concrete blocks, stone, structural tiles and similar materials to construct or repair walls, foundations and other structures in residential, industrial and commercial construction
• Lay bricks or other masonry units to build residential or commercial chimneys and fireplaces
• Lay radial bricks to build masonry shells of industrial chimneys
• Lay or install firebricks to line industrial chimneys and smokestacks
• Line or reline furnaces, kilns, boilers and similar installations using refractory or acid-resistant bricks, refractory concretes, plastic refractories and other materials
• Lay bricks, stone or similar materials to provide veneer facing to walls or other surfaces
• Construct and install prefabricated masonry units
• Lay bricks or other masonry units to build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations
• May restore, clean or paint existing masonry structures.

• Completion of secondary school is usually required.
• Completion of a three- to four-year apprenticeship program or a combination of over four years of work experience in the trade and some high school, college or industry courses in bricklaying is usually required to be eligible for trade certification.
• Trade certification for bricklayers is compulsory in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec and available, but voluntary, in all other provinces and the Yukon.
• Trade certification for stonemasons is available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador.
• Trade certification for restoration stone masons is available, but voluntary, in Nova Scotia.
• Red Seal endorsement is also available to qualified bricklayers upon successful completion of the interprovincial Red Seal examination.

• Progression to supervisory positions is possible with experience.
• The Red Seal endorsement allows for interprovincial mobility.

• Bricklayer supervisor (in 72014 Contractors and supervisors, other construction trades, installers, repairers and servicers)
• Concrete finishers (73100)
• Tilesetters (73101)