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Stonemason
OFO Code: 641301
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 641301
- Occupation
- Stonemason
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6413 · Stonemasons, Stone Cutters, Splitters and Carvers
Official description
Stonemasons, stone cutters, splitters and carvers cut and shape hard and soft stone blocks and slabs for the construction and maintenance of stone structures and monumental masonry, and carve designs and figures in stone.
Trade occupation in the OFO source
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Headstone Maker, Construction Stonemason, Masonry Carver / Cutter / Setter Monumental, Monument Installer, Marble Mason, Masonry Fixer, Terrazzo Worker, Stone Masonry Setter, Monumental Mason / Stonemason
- Repairing and replacing stonework on old buildings, churches and monuments
- Making patterns and marking shapes on stone for subsequent sawing, planning, drilling and other dressing and cutting operations
- Selecting and grading slabs and blocks of granite, marble, and other stone
- Cutting, shaping and finishing building and monumental stone such as granite or marble by using hand or hand-powered tools
- Setting stone in the erection of monuments and memorials
- Driving wedges into quarried stone to break it into slabs or blocks
- Cutting and carving characters, figures or designs on stone blocks used for monuments or memorials
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.