Tasks and duties

• Selecting and grading slabs and blocks of granite, marble, and other stone
• Cutting and carving characters, figures or designs on stone blocks used for monuments or memorials
• Setting stone in the erection of monuments and memorials
• Driving wedges into quarried stone to break it into slabs or blocks
• Making patterns and marking shapes on stone for subsequent sawing, planing, drilling and other dressing and cutting operations
• Repairing and replacing stonework on old buildings, churches and monuments
• Cutting, shaping and finishing building and monumental stone such as granite or marble using hand tools or hand-held power tools