Lauren B. Godfrey
Journeyman Brick Mason
El Paso, TX · (915) 555 0128 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/laurenbgodfrey
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Ten years laying brick, block and stone on commercial projects
INDUSTRIES
Schools, health care, retail centers, municipal buildings
SPECIALTIES
Face brick, concrete masonry unit walls, cavity wall assemblies, sample panels
SYSTEMS
Mast climbing work platforms, mortar mixers, laser levels, Procore mobile daily reports
CREDENTIALS
Journeyman card, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; Occupational Safety and Health Administration thirty hour construction safety card
EDUCATION
Three year masonry apprenticeship, joint apprenticeship and training committee, El Paso
Executive Summary
Journeyman brick mason with ten years on commercial and institutional walls across West Texas and southern New Mexico. Completed a three year registered apprenticeship, works clean and fast on scaffold and reads shop drawings without needing them explained twice. Trusted with sample panels and the first lead on every job.
Signature Achievements
- Laid an average of six hundred fifty face brick per day on a school project while holding joint tolerance within specification.
- Built the approved sample panel on four projects, each accepted by the architect on the first review.
- Finished a forty thousand square foot concrete masonry unit shell eleven days ahead of the wall schedule.
- Worked five straight years with no recordable injury and no lost time on any crew.
- Trained seven apprentices on layout, corner leads and joint tooling, five of whom topped out.
Professional Experience
Journeyman Brick Mason
Franklin Mountain Masonry, El Paso, TX 2021 to present
Crew of eight on commercial masonry packages between four hundred thousand and three million dollars.
- Set corner leads and run line for face brick, split face block and cast stone.
- Read shop drawings and elevations to lay out openings, control joints and coursing.
- Install flashing, weeps, ties and reinforcement in cavity wall assemblies to specification.
- Direct laborers on mortar mixing, material staging and scaffold housekeeping.
Brick Mason
Rio Grande Wall Systems, Las Cruces, NM 2019 to 2021
Retail and light industrial masonry for a contractor with forty field employees.
- Laid concrete masonry unit backup walls and grouted reinforced cells to engineered drawings.
- Cut and set brick veneer around windows, lintels and parapets.
- Kept daily production counts and reported material needs to the foreman.
Masonry Apprentice
Pass del Norte Contractors, El Paso, TX 2016 to 2019
Registered apprenticeship combining paid field work with classroom instruction.
- Completed four thousand five hundred hours of supervised field training and related classroom instruction.
- Mixed mortar, stocked scaffold and learned layout under journeyman supervision.
Licensure and Certification
Journeyman card, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Local 3
Occupational Safety and Health Administration thirty hour construction safety card
Scaffold user and mast climbing work platform training
Respirable crystalline silica awareness training
Education
Three year registered masonry apprenticeship, completed 2019
High school diploma, Ysleta High School, El Paso
Core Skills
Face brick · Concrete masonry units · Corner leads · Cavity wall flashing · Coursing layout · Joint tooling · Scaffold safety · Blueprint reading · Cast stone setting · Apprentice mentoring