roofer

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma
  
  

Experience

3 years to less than 5 years

On the road

Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.

Work site environment

• At heights
• Noisy
• Dusty
• Dangerous
• Outdoors
  
  

Work setting

• Various locations
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Residential
  
  

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Install built-up roofing systems using materials such as asphalt saturated felts and hot asphalt and gravel
• Install or replace asphalt shingles, wood shingles and shakes and masonry or baked clay roofing tiles on sloped roofs of buildings
• Install single-ply roofing system using waterproof sheet materials, such as modified plastics, elastomeric or other asphaltic compositions
• Repair or replace single-ply roofing systems
• Apply waterproof coatings to concrete or other masonry surfaces below or above ground level
• Install and repair metal roofs using hand and power tools
• Erect and install scaffolding, falsework and other working platforms
  
  

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses

• Working at heights training
• Propane in Construction Record of Training
• Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
  
  

Experience and specialization

Equipment and machinery experience

• Forklift
  
  

Area of work experience

• Asphalt finishing
  
  

Area of specialization

• Conventional and inverted built-up system
• Modified roofing system
• Rigid pre-formed roofing system
• Single ply sheet membrane roofing system
• Tiled roofs
• Skylights
  
  

Additional information

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Fast-paced environment
• Physically demanding
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Handling heavy loads
• Large workload
• Overtime required
• Repetitive tasks
• Work under pressure
  
  

Benefits

Financial benefits

• As per collective agreement