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AN170010 – Building and Construction Industry Award

14. CLASSIFICATION DESCRIPTORS

‘Assistant Powder Monkey’ means a person assisting under the direct supervision of a powder monkey in placing and firing explosive charges excluding the operation of explosive powdered tools.

‘Assistant Rigger’ means a person assisting under the direct supervision of a rigger in erecting or placing the members of any type of structure (other than scaffolding and aluminium alloy structures) and for the manner of ensuring the stability of such members, for dismantling such structure or for setting up cranes or hoists other than those attached to scaffolding and who has had less than twelve months experience at rigging work, and shall include an employee either performing rigging work that is an integral part of, or is incidental to tradespersons’ work or work that is an integral part of or is incidental to, cranage operations.

‘Bitumen Worker’ means an employee heating, preparing, cutting, carrying, laying using on wood work or handling asphalt, bitumen, tar or emulsion or material coated with any one thereof.

‘Bricklayer’ means an employee employed on bricklaying or tuckpointing work. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing the work of bricklayers may include: bricklaying, cleaning down brickwork, brickcutting, tiling, setting pointed brickwork, firework, setting coke slabs, coke bricks, cutting openings in brickwork, stone setting and the laying of all types of blocks including concrete, masonry, terracotta, glass, plaster, plastic and synthetic or reconstituted material blocks or bricks, paving bricks and bricks, blocks or tiles laid in sand.

‘Carpenter and Joiner’ means an employee employed as a carpenter and/or joiner upon shop fitting work or construction work as defined in this clause. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing the work of carpenters may include:

(a) work in connection with prefabricated units;

(b) the marking out, lining, plumbing and levelling of steel formwork and supports thereto;

(c) the stripping of steel formwork shutters or boxing;

(d) the erection of curtain walling and the fixing of external wall cladding;

(e) the erection of suspended ceilings except where wet plaster is used;

(f) the erection of metal windows or doors;

(g) the manufacture, installation, alteration and/or repair of shopfronts, showcases, exhibitors stands and interior fittings and fixtures in or on buildings, and the erection or installation of partitions and including partitions involving wrap-around glazing and the erection or installation of partitions including the insertion of glass panels where the glass is 6.35 mm or less in thickness by beads or moulds or other dry glazing methods.

‘Carpenter-Diver’ means an employee engaged to do work under water, requiring the use of a recognised diving dress, which work, if done on the surface, would be the work of a bridge and wharf carpenter as provided in and by this award and such other work, if not done on the surface, as is ordinarily done by carpenter-divers under water and is generally recognised to be their work in, for example, and for example only, the construction, repair, demolition or inspection of wharves, and/or bridges, piers, jetties, dolphins, slipways, dams, reservoirs, coffer dams, bulkheads cylinders and caissons, (provided that in the case of slipways, coffer dams, bulkheads and caissons they are not in a recognised shipyard or dock,) the inspection of or salvage work on ships, boats, barges, punts or pontoons and the removal of any obstructions or fouling on such vessels.

‘Concrete Finisher’ means an employee other than a concrete floater engaged in the finishing of concrete or cement work by hand not being a finish in marble mosaic or terrazzo.

‘Concrete Floater’ means an employee engaged in concrete or cement work and using a wooden or rubber screeder or mechanical trowel or wooden float or engaged in bagging off or broom finishing or patching.

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker’ - For the purposes of subclause 13(d):

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 1’ means a labourer with less than three months' experience in the construction industry.

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 2’ means any of the following:

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 3’ means any of the following:

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 4’ means any of the following:

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 5’ means any of the following:

‘Construction and Maintenance Worker Grade 6’ means any of the following:

‘Fencer’ means an employee erecting fencing material other than sawn timber such as post and rail or wire fencing.

‘Foreperson’ means an employee who is given by the employer, or employer’s agent, the responsibility for supervising the programming of work.

‘Foundation Shaftsworker’ means a builder’s labourer employed on the sinking of shafts which will exceed six metres in depth for foundations of buildings or upon consequential steel fixing, timbering and concreting therein.

‘Glazier’ means an employee engaged in any manner whatsoever in glazing, glass cutting, glass processing cutting and fixing vitrolite or like material, the fixing of glass by any means in any place prepared for its reception, fitting and fixing glazing bars, leadlight and metal glazing including cutting glass, assembling and fixing such glass by means of lead and/or metal sections.

‘Leading Hand’ means an employee who is given by the employer, or their agent, the responsibility of directing and/or supervising the work of other persons, or in the case of only one person the specific responsibility of directing and/or supervising the work of that person.

‘Marker or Setter Out’ means an employee mainly employed marking and/or setting out work for other employees.

‘MECHANICAL PLANT OPERATOR’

For the purposes of subclause 13(c) of this award, ‘Mechanical Plant Operator’ means an operator of any of the following items of plant:

Group 1:

Group 2:

Group 3:

Group 4:

Group 5:

Group 6:

NOTE:

Crawler tractors are classified in accordance with Australian standard D4-1964 Classification of Crawler Tractor by weight as follows:

Class

Shipping Weight – Pounds

1

up to 3000

2

over 3000 up to 6000

3

over 6000 up to 10000

4

over 10000 up to 15000

5

over 15000 up to 25000

6

over 25000 up to 40000

7

over 40000 up to 60000

8

over 60000 up to 80000

9

over 90000

   

(metric edition of standard not yet available)

‘Operator of explosive-powered tools’ means an employee qualified in accordance with the laws and regulations of the respective states to operate explosive-powered tools.

‘Painter’ means an employee engaged in any manner whatsoever in:

(a) The painting and/or decorating of or in connection with all buildings and structures, plant, machinery and equipment, fences and posts (commercial, residential, industrial or otherwise).

(b) The painting of or in connection with prefabricated buildings and structures, plant machinery and equipment (commercial, residential, industrial or otherwise) and any prefabricated or other parts of prefabricated buildings and structures as aforementioned.

‘Pitcher or Breacher’ means an employee pitching or breaching on embankment or floor with stone or riprap.

‘PLANT OPERATOR - CIVIL CONSTRUCTION GRADES 1, 2 AND 3’

For the purposes of subclause 13(c) of this award, ‘Plant Operator - Civil Construction’ means an operator of any of the following items of plant:

‘PLANT OPERATOR - CIVIL CONSTRUCTION GRADE 1’

‘PLANT OPERATOR - CIVIL CONSTRUCTION GRADE 2’

‘PLANT OPERATOR - CIVIL CONSTRUCTION GRADE 3’

‘Plasterer’ means an employee employed on internal and/or external plastering and/or cement, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, finishing and/or topdressing and/or patching concrete work, rendering with all forms of plaster including applying and finishing acoustic, insulating or fireproofing materials bonded with plaster, plastic, cementitious or similar substances, waterproofing work in cement, bitumen or similar substances, waterproofing work in cement, bitumen, plaster or patent material, granolithic floor laying (i.e. floors laid with material or aggregate consisting of marble chips, blue stone toppings, crushed slag or similar material), press cement work, cement floors (including magnesite and/or composition floors), marble mosaic paving, terrazzo and similar work texture or pebble finish work formed in cement, plaster, asbestos, vermiculite, pearlite or other expanded aggregate or patent materials, sewer and/or tunnel plastering including the rendering of manholes, pits, sumps, tanks and filter beds, lathing for plastering work scagliola and similar work, plaster, fibrous plaster, plasterglass casting and fixing, ceiling fixing, plaster board fixing and plaster board cornice manufacture and fixing, and laying or fixing of tiles of terracotta or pottery ware, faience, ceramic, (excepting where done in connection with bricklaying work) opalite, (not exceeding 930 square centimetres), plastic or similar materials, and rendering of house connection work such as taps, connections, basins etc and the jointing of pipes of concrete or cement composition used in sewer work (except where such work is done by a licensed drainer approved by the local authority to do such work), whether all of the foregoing is done by manual or mechanical means together with any of the work defined for the following specialist categories:

(a) ‘Assistant’ means an employee engaged in assisting or labouring and who is otherwise not classified above.

(b) ‘Caster’ means an employee employed in any or all of the following duties: The cleaning and greasing of benches and moulds, the gauging of plaster, plastic or cement, the bedding of fibre and all reinforcements, ruling and trowelling of casts, used for the purpose of making and/or casting fibrous plaster, plasterglass, plastic or pressed cement work.

(c) ‘Fixer’ means an employee employed on the work of fixing or finishing of fibrous plaster, plaster glass or similar material, gypsum plasterboard, and other composite boards when flush joined or plaster products and includes the spraying by manual or mechanical means of light-weight aggregates when used for decorative and fire prevention purposes. Fixing of acoustic tiles, in-fill panels and cornices of an earth base including all necessary suspensions and fixings.

(d) ‘Floorlayer Specialist’ means an employee employed on the work of the top-dressing on concrete work, whether finished in cement, terrazzo, marble, granolithic, bitumen, magnesite, and similar substances by manual or mechanical means and all such concrete work incidental to the preparation and laying of such floors steps or risers.

(e) ‘Shophand’ means an employee who performs any or all of the following duties: the interpretation of plans and detailing of any work from them in the preparation of work for the modeller, the making of all plaster or cementpiece moulds, wax moulds, fibreglass mounts, or moulds of any description used for the purpose of making and/or casting fibrous plaster, plaster glass, plaster, plastic, fibreglass, or pressed cement work.

‘Refractory Bricklayer’ means a bricklayer skilled in the performance of the work required in the laying of refractory brickwork, the use of pliable, castable, ramable, moulding and insulating materials and the use of tools and machines necessary for the carrying out of this work with refractory materials, including the use of hand held nozzle or gunite type of appliance other than by cement gun or shotcreter, in the construction or alteration of repairs to boilers, flues, furnaces, retorts, kilns, ovens, ladles and similar structures and instruments used in refractory work, together with refractory work associated with acid stills, acid furnaces, acid towers and all other acid resisting brickwork.

‘Refractory Bricklayer’s Assistant’ means an employee wholly or substantially assisting a ‘Refractory Bricklayer’.

‘Renderer’ means an employee who applies by hand a continuous coat of cement mortar to a brick, masonry or set concrete surface and finishes it to a true and smooth surface by means of a trowel float.

‘Roof Tiler, Slater, Shingler, Ridger or Roof Fixer’ means an employee of the trade or calling of tiling roofs or fixing roofing sheets of asbestos, fibro, fibrolite or cement mixtures and accessories, malthoid, sisalkraft, pamcolite or bituminous roofing material and all accessories made of the same materials and which, without limiting the meaning of the above shall include: terracotta, glazed, semi-glazed roofing tiles, cement tiles, slates, fibro slates, tiles, asbestos, fibrolite, fibro, fibrous mixtures, cement and any mixtures that may replace or be used in conjunction with the foregoing or any materials incidental thereto or in place thereof, and work incidental to the above work including battening for tiles, tying, nailing or carrying tiles, etc, and the laying and/or pointing of ridges and barges.

‘Scaffolder’ means a person engaged substantially in the erecting or altering or dismantling of any structure or framework used or intended to be used in building operations:

(a) to support workers or material; or

(b) to support framework; or

(c) as a temporary support for members or parts of a building;

‘Signwriter’ means an employee who in addition to having a knowledge of painting, staining and varnishing, does any of the following work:

(a) signwriting, designing and/or lettering of price tickets and showcards;

(b) pictorial and scenic paintings, or production of signs and posters by means of stencils screens or like methods or any other work incidental thereto including cutout displays of all descriptions, pictorial scenic or lettering;

‘SPECIAL CLASS TRADESPERSON’

(a) means a tradesperson carpenter and/or joiner, bricklayer, plasterer or stonemason who is engaged on work or restoration, renovation, preservation or reconstruction of historical or National Trust type buildings, the performance of which requires the use of complex, high quality trade skills and experience which are not generally exercised in normal construction work.

(b) For the purpose of this definition complex and high quality trade skills and experience shall be deemed to be acquired by the tradesperson:

(c) For the purpose of this definition the following are deemed to be prescribed post trade courses and recognised throughout the locality of this award:

(d) PROVIDED that nothing in this definition shall prevent the parties proceeding to have the matter determined in accordance with Clause 37 – Settlement of Disputes.

‘STONEMASONRY’

(a) ‘Carver’ means an employee on construction work who carves any kind of stonework, which does not come within the definition of stonemason appearing in this clause, for the decoration of buildings or other stonework from a model or freehand design.

(b) A ‘dimension stone quarry’ means any place from which stone to a stated size is excavated, but shall not include a place where stone is excavated for the purpose of being used as ballast filling or random rubble, nor does it include the excavation of basements or the excavation of the foundations of buildings.

(c) ‘Floor Layer’ means an employee who lays floors in terrazzo or similar composition in which marble, slate, or similar stones are used in the making thereof, and shall include persons casting or laying down precast work, but shall not include persons assisting or labouring in the operation.

(d) ‘Letter Cutter’ means an employee on construction work who marks out, cuts or finishes letters in any kind of stone or artificial or reconstituted stone.

(e) ‘Machinist’ means an employee on construction work who operates a machine for the sawing, gritting, dressing, facing or polishing of all kinds of stone, composition or reconstituted stone, terrazzo or similar compositions.

(f) ‘Quarryworker’ means an employee engaged in a dimension stone quarry and who in the course of this work performs toe-grooving, block lifting, scabbling or cutting stones to size by the use of hammers, picks, gads, wedges and/or machines.

‘STONEMASON’

(a) means an employee on construction work engaged in the dressing, setting, fixing, coping, drilling or boxing up of any kind of stone, including terrazzo, composition or other reconstituted stone, by hand or machine, that has to be cut to a mould or template, or which has to be proven by a square or straight edge or set to a line or level, and includes a worker who fixes manufactured stone to the facade of a building or the building of stone veneer in random or ashlar; the restoration and colouration of decayed stone including the preparation and use of materials or liquids of any sort necessary for such work.

(b) The dressing and/or setting of all kinds of masonry shall be regarded as masons’ work, but if no mason be immediately available, a competent tradesperson may set plain sills, steps, templates, windows or door heads.

‘Stonemason’s Assistant’ means a person employed in the industry assisting or labouring and who otherwise is not classified above.

‘Stoneworker’ means a worker who does all or any of the following classes of work, whether hammer dressed or sawn:

(a) Foundation work;

(b) Building random rubble uncoursed or building squared rubbled in courses or regular coursed rubble and dressing quoins or shoddies in connection with any such work;

PROVIDED that this definition shall not itself be taken to prejudice or affect the right of any other classes of tradesperson to do any class or kind of work they have hitherto been accustomed to do.

‘Timberperson’ means an employee timbering excavations, shafts, etc.

‘Tilelayer’ means, without limiting the meaning of the word tilelayers, persons employed in the laying or fixing of tiles, faience, mosaic, ceramic, opalite, and the like not exceeding in measurement 930 square centimetres when such opalite and the like is fixed with cement composition.

‘Tradesperson’ means a person who is engaged in a classification contained in subclause 13(a) of this award.

‘Trencher’ means a self-propelled machine with the facility to dig trenches by continuous action of a bucket wheel or bucket chain.

‘Tunneller 1’ means an experienced tunneller who is engaged underground in the work of drilling, charging, firing, operating mucking loaders, timbering, placing steel supports, rock bolting, concrete vibrator hand, concrete gun operator or tending concrete chutes and conveyor belts.

‘Tunneller 2’ means an employee engaged underground in the work of assisting tunneller 1, car spotter, brakeman, operators of rotary car dumps, members of a bull gang or an employee carrying out any other general underground labouring in the course of tunnel excavation operations.

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